zachawry Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Hi all. First post here. I've been using an customer and invoicing database I set up in 5.5 for years now. Now I here things about older versions not being compatible with Leopard, which makes me very nervous. I don't need network or online options, if that matters. Has anyone here used FMP 5 or 5 on Mac OS X 1.5 successfully or not? I'd love some concrete information before deciding whether to update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Head Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I don't know the definitive answer but since there are problems with 9 and 8.5, I would assume also problems with 5.5. FWIW, it is an unsupported product so there will be no assistance available. It is, after all, a release from May 2001. You can't honestly expect it to work with an October 2007 operating system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachawry Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 I don't know the definitive answer but since there are problems with 9 and 8.5, I would assume also problems with 5.5. FWIW, it is an unsupported product so there will be no assistance available. It is, after all, a release from May 2001. You can't honestly expect it to work with an October 2007 operating system. No, don't most other programs that worked on early versions of OX X still work? Maybe not on 10.5, which seems to be a bigger break from the past under the hood. Maybe it would be a less painful upgrade if Filemaker at least gave me the option of an upgrade license, not a full new purchase! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PointInSpace Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Reports are that 5.5 + 6 should work fine with 10.5. I haven't personally tried myself though. - John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwbernard Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Any updates on compatibility of Leopard with Filemaker 6? We have had some challenges getting Open Remote to work. Not sure if setting a port or other patches at the server would help. We just share a file and do not own Filemaker server. We have the option to upgrade to Filemaker 7 if that would help. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Any flavor of FileMaker predating 8.5 is going to be compiled for PowerPC Mac and will therefore run in Rosetta. There are known issues with some of the functions not working correctly under Rosetta. FileMaker Pro 5.5 doesn't play particularly well even on the combo of 10.4.x and PowerPC Mac. Admittedly that could be due to a somehow-hosed installation but my 5.5 is crash-prone whereas I can still run 6 without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJ Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm using 5.5 and 6 with 10.5 and have had no troubles at all. I'm not doing advanced work, either, but for simple relationships and calculations, everything is working fine. smiley_cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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