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Polytrope will be closed December 22-29, 2011

Polytrope will be closed around Christmas for one week, from Wednesday, December 22, 2011, through Wednesday, December 29, 2011. This will be a pretty hard close, meaning that on most of those days, I will be difficult or impossible to reach.

Let me remind you that a number of useful articles can be found here:

http://polytrope.weebly.com/support.html

In particular, this is a good time to review your backup strategy—your first line of defense in case of serious problems. There’s an article on the page I just linked to that (a) explains why a good backup system is so important; (b) suggests some successful approaches; and (c) provides warnings about some common mistakes made backing up databases.

I will be back at my office computer on December 30 and 31 and of course back at work full-time on January 2, 2012. I hope you have a Fun Festivus or Happy Hanukah or (my personal favorite) Merry Christmas, and a safe and Happy New Year.

Will Porter

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FileMaker Pro and Mac OS X.7 “Lion”

August 25, 2011: With the recent release of the 11.0.4 update, FileMaker Pro is now fully compatible with Mac OS X.7 “Lion”, which was released by Apple in July. As I noted here a week or two ago, there were/are some incompatibilities between FileMaker Pro 11.0.3 and Lion, but they were pretty minor and most of them didn’t affect my users. Anyway, with the 11.0.4 update, those incompatibilities are now gone. Well, I understand that there is one remaining problem that has to do with Instant Web Publishing (IWP), but none of my clients or licensees are using that, at least, none of my solutions rely on IWP. So, if you’re using Mac OS X.7 and FileMaker Pro 11, be sure to get the latest update for FileMaker and you’ll be in good shape.

If you are using an earlier version of FileMaker Pro, however, then do NOT upgrade immediately. There are known incompatibilities with the more recent previous versions of FileMaker Pro (10, for example). And even earlier versions aren’t compatible at all. Please check http://filemaker.com for more info, or contact Polytrope Support. [WP]

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