Q: Bento doesn't work under yosemite!

Bento was withdrawn some time ago so no updates will be available. Suggest you contact FileMaker Pro.

Same problem, same urgency for me.

Ruud,

have you by any chance tried copying your bentodb file to another Mac which hasn't upgraded to Yosemite yet?

Do you think that might work?  :-/

Thx

Thierry

Have anyone tried Bento for iPad under iOS8? !!!

Thanks for the warning!

Bento 4.1.2 works for me under Yosemite. The update is still available from Filemaker but I don't know if they still want you to pay for it.

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11182/~/software-update%3A-ben to-4.1.2-for-mac . Bento for the ipad works for me under ios 8.1. The wifi sync function didn't work under ios 8.0.2 but was fixed in 8.1.

Thank you so much! I've tried to move my databases to Filemaker Pro using the "Bento to Filemaker Migration Tool". The results were very disappointing (e.g. Table view is not so nice as Table view in Bento- in fact its terrible, list view does't work very well, all my smart collections are gone and you can't backup data over wifi between devices). Apple, if you are listening, Filemaker is NOT a Bento alternative! Stop killing your software (as you did with Bento, Aperture, iDvD, iWeb, etc). You are losing credibility. Show some respect to your costumers!!!

How long did you give Bento?

I just upgraded to Yosemite and found that bento was just stuck and would not load.

While I was reading these posts I see that it finally loaded everything and is working fine now.

It took what I thought an inordinate amount of time (about 30 minutes) of just sitting there looking like it was frozen, but apparently that is how long it was taking to grab and load all the data. If you have not just let it sit there and do its thing, I would maybe give that a try?

Just a thought.

Bento for iPad was working under iOS 7.1. OTA updates to 8.0..8.1 was working too. Deleted while restoring iPad. Reinstallation of Bento worked momentarily but crashed during sync and did not recover. So a fresh installation with sync does not work in my case.

Thanks for testing this Justan and Marc. I wish there more about this on the internet than what I've seen and searched. The Bento forums are gone, so there is no way to communicate with other Bento users.

I agree. Bento was/is everything that I needed as far as a database goes. What I especially liked was that the database syncs with the Apple Contacts app: make a change in Bento, Contacts also gets changed and the other way around.

I was wondering if any of you could do a little test for me and see if the sync still works when changes are made to either the DB and contacts?

And maybe there should be a new thread called Bento DOES work Yosemite!

Jonathan

If you don't want to pay the big bucks and the confusion of using Filemaker, TapForms is inexpensive, and does a great job of importing Bento data/ templates. The Form view looks just like you made it in Bento. I haven't figured out yet how to make the Table View in TapForms to be in the same order I had on Bento. But all the data is there, and it happens very quickly with decent size databases.

I'm too scared to update to Yosemite on my main computer, because I still want to use Bento for now

Thanks ghiagoo.

I've looked into TapForms, and it is interesting and seems to do everything I am looking for, including sync back and forth with the Contacts app. After having to rebuild databases with thousands of entries after Appleworks to work nicely with Bento, and now have to deal with another app, I'm a little hesitant only because of un certainty of the longevity of TapForms. As much as I dislike the idea of paying big $$$ for Filemaker, at least they've been around for sometime.

I am in touch with TapForms and they are really are quick in their responses though.

Anyone else care to share Bento/Yosemite experiences???

Thanks all.

Jonathan

Yeah - here's my experience:

I have FileMaker 13 through my work, but did not stop using Bento when the company stopped supporting it - I still preferred it (a 1000 times over) to FileMaker. I updated to Yosemite, and not only will Bento NOT work (I did the 'wait a 1/2 hour for it to load', and it eventually did - once. Then froze when I tried to click on anything and hasn't loaded again since) but the Bento Migration Tool (created to move your databases to the FileMaker platform) will ALSO refuse to work. It crashes upon launch, every single time. Has anyone experienced this?? I'm left without Bento and with an inability to migrate the database to FileMaker.

Same crash occurs when I try to migrate into FileMaker 12, as well, so it isn't a FileMaker 13 issue.

HI Venesa.

are you using the last version of Bento 4.1.2?

it seems like half of the posters here have it working and the other half not so much.

I've noticed that my DB of 4000 records takes a really long time to open even iN Mavericks and previous os's. Has App Nap been disabled? Known to cause some issues with other apps. Repair disk permisions?

keep those comments coming!

Bento 4 works perfectly on iOS 8.1 and Bento 4.1.1. also works perfectly on Yosemite. they sync as well!