My mom is running FM7 on an Intel iMac with Snow Leopard.
There are two user accounts on the computer. FM7 works on one and not the other.
(I know -- she should upgrade to 11 but she's 89, on fixed income, and does not want to spend the money.)
Any idea why it would work on one user account and not the other?
Is FM 7 supposed to be compatible with SL? (I know I had to go from 8.5 to 10 and now 11, because 8.5 was not fully compatible with SL.)
Thanks.
sjh
I don't know about "fully compatable", but FileMaker 7 Developer will run and can open databases on Snow Leopard, so I'd expect the regular version would be fine as well. It's PPC not Universal so you'll need Rosetta, of course. No problem using it with multiple accounts.
When you say it doesn't work with one account, what do you mean exactly? What happens when you try to open the application with that account?
Thanks for the response.
When she logs into user account #1 and tries to open FM7, it does not open -- starts to and quits, what I would call a crash.
When she logs into user account #2, it opens, works and even prints a FM document (no need to go to .pdf), which, for most purposes means it is working fine.
So, same computer, same operating system, different user accounts -- but there is absolutely no difference between the user accounts in terms of software installed and available -- it has all been loaded to the computer not a user account.
Thanks, again,
sjh
Here's what I'd try:
1)For account #1, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.filemaker.pro7.plist and ~/Library/FileMaker Preferences/FileMaker Pro 7.0 Prefs, then try opening FileMaker 7 again.
2)If that doesn't work, try creating a new account (account #3) and see if FileMaker 7 will open for that freshly-created account. (That'll tell us whether the problem is specific to something about account #1.)
Great suggestions.
I'm in Tx and Mom's in LA. I'll be back with her next week and will try this.
She's 89 and not confident enough to try it on her own.
I really appreciate your help.
sjh
Snow Leopard and FileMaker Pro 7
