26 Apr
2012
26 Apr
'12
3:51 a.m.
On 26/04/2012 04:51, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 11:25 PM -0400 4/25/12, David Riley wrote:
I recently had problems with Filemaker Pro V3 on windows. It does not
seem to like disks larger than 120GB. A friend still runs his Ham Call
Sign database on Filemaker Pro and I was wondered if it was possible to
get one copy of the later version. I am in the UK and want it for a
friend who keeps his Ham call book in a Filemaker Pro and is keeping an
old laptop running mainly for Filemaker Pro.
Dave
G4UGM
On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:11 PM, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
No, don't think so; it's the first non-Classic version, though. I
recall that it predated the Intel transition by quite a bit, and 8
was the version that offered Universal capability (and pre-packaged
apps, which were kind of cute but never really worked that well).
6 is the last version I'd use with any willingness. 7 started a
long decline, and I gave up even trying after 8. Maybe their
newer stuff is nicer, but I tried using Bento a few years ago to
do up the envelopes for our wedding invitations, and wrote off
the effort after just an hour or so trying to get it to do
anything useful.
That's a really depressing assessment. Having started with a couple
versions of PC:File, then dBase III, and finally dBase IV, I found
FileMaker Pro v2.1 to be really nice. The only reason I upgraded to
v5.5 was to be compatible with the FileMaker application that ran on
my Sony Clie (Palm Pilot clone).
Of course now days I'm practically writing SQL in my sleep, so I'm not
sure how suited FileMaker is to me now anyway.
Zane
Unfortunately it appears it won't work on Mac OS X 10.7. I've been
using FileMaker Pro since '95, but have only run two versions in that
time. I bought v2.1, and later upgraded to v5.5, which won't run on
10.7. It's also one of two reasons I'm still on 10.6.8. Sadly
FileMaker, just like most of the industry, has gotten really crappy
about their upgrade policies.
Pretty sure 7 was never Universal, was it?