FileMaker Pro update delivers Leopard compatibility
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 1, 2007 at 12:48pm
FileMaker Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has released FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 and FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 Advanced, available now via a downloadable update. The 9.0v2 update provides compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) as well as other features.
In Leopard, the application no longer crashes when creating files if the system language and region don’t match. The Get(SystemVersion) now returns the correct version on Mac OS X operating systems ending with double digit revision numbers, i.e. 10.4.10.
The database consistency check initiated on launch will no longer incorrectly report that a database is damaged for some databases that can be opened and used without any problems. The update addresses issues which cause the application to crash when a page range is specified. A relationship with a global field now returns all related records if the value of the other key is empty. To download the FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 and FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 Advanced Leopard update go here. Note that this update doesn’t fix issues with the FileMaker Pro 9 Instant Web Publishing (IWP) feature running on Leopard. FileMaker Inc. says it intends to make IWP compatible with Leopard in an update expected in December.
The company expects to deliver a Leopard compatibility update for their server products in early 2008. FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced currently don’t deploy properly on Leopard. In the meantime, FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced clients running on Leopard do work with FileMaker Server and Server Advanced running on Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or earlier versions of Mac OS X.
Richard S. Russell Says:
I must have been totally out of the loop on this, but when did FileMaker become “a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple”? I know it STARTED as a division of Apple back in the Claris days, but I thot it had been completely spun off into an independent entity years ago.
And, yes, you’d totally think that a “wholly owned subsidiary” would be the FIRST (not the last) to be on board with the latest OS developments.
Posted on November 30, 2007
Roger Haldenby Says:
Not being the first on board with a new operating system is one thing, but blatant lack of consideration for users trying to download the latest updater .dmg is ridiculous. The 9.0v3 updater is A THIRD OF A GIGABYTE and just hangs after the first 25 MB or so. It’s so bloated you think they were owned by Microsoft, not Apple!
Posted on December 06, 2007
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
dave Says:
I guess someone at Apple should have phoned up FileMaker before Leopard was released. They seem completely surprised that Apple released a new operating system.
Posted on November 01, 2007