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Comment on FileMaker 11 and OS X Lion by Colin Keefe

Colin Keefe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:19:53 +0000

Okay, stand corrected on Rosetta

I would still like to point out that if you have the latest MS Office, then you are using .XLSX file formats, unless you’re specifically selecting a backward compatible older excel format of .XLS.

FileMaker CAN export to XLSX, so it’s incorrect to say that this problem cannot be solved by updating MS Office. It’s only a problem (admittedly a significant one) if you continue to use the older .xls file format.

As for your theory, it’s likely spot on. As for me, I’d like to see either:

a. the functionality for .xls export rolled back into FM (can’t imagine it’s that hard)

b. removal of XLS as an export option when running Lion, since it just makes things confusing.

Comment on FileMaker 11 and OS X Lion by Gustav

Gustav — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:57:48 +0000

Uhm… Colin,

Rosetta is to support MacOS X PowerPC code, not MacOS 9 code. Apple sold PPC machines up until August 2006. 5 years ago.

And this problem can not be solved by update MS Office. I have the latest MS Office, but FileMaker still can not export to Excel format.

My theory is that MS supplied this export module to FileMaker years ago, and did not update it with Intel code. But it’d be nice to see clarification from FileMaker.

Comment on Matt O’Dell on HTML5: Example Files by Colin Keefe

Colin Keefe — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:26:34 +0000

Thanks go to Matt here, really.

We did record the meeting, but not sure if Kevin will have the time to do the editing required to get it ready to post here. If we can get it all together, you’ll see an update on this site.

Comment on Matt O’Dell on HTML5: Example Files by Daniel Shanahan

Daniel Shanahan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:00 +0000

Thanks for making the files available.

Comment on Please Join us January 24th – Matt O’Dell – HTML5: An Overview by Colin Keefe

Colin Keefe — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:35:30 +0000

I’ve already had three requests for this! Checking, and if we can do it it’ll get posted to this blog.

We used to uStream, but these days we are more likely to record and post.

Comment on Please Join us January 24th – Matt O’Dell – HTML5: An Overview by Charlie Cheney

Charlie Cheney — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:29:14 +0000

Will you be webcasting this per chance?

Comment on FileMaker 11 and OS X Lion by Colin Keefe

Colin Keefe — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:03:47 +0000

Hi Arnold.

Neither FileMaker nor Apple are “our” company We’re a user group.

It is true that older excel exports in FileMaker are broken due to Lion no longer supporting Rosetta.

I can’t speak to business decisions for either company, but these are really two unrelated issues.

Apple dropping Rosetta support makes lots of business sense, actually.

OS 9 was discontinued TEN years ago. Apple provided backward compatibility for OS 9 apps through Rosetta for a decade. That’s a rather long support window.

FileMaker not creating a workaround for the Rosetta code for older Excel export formats is a different issue, and a valid point.

It is, however, a problem that can be resolved by updating Mac Office from 2004, which is, after all, a 7 year old product.

Comment on FileMaker 11 and OS X Lion by Arnold familian

Arnold familian — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:30:23 +0000

I can not believe filemaker 11 does not work with lion since apple owned your company. By apple dropping rosetta you made other softer also outdated. Why would do this makes no sence.
Arnold

Comment on Please Join us October 27th: Andrew LeCates and Matt O’Dell from FileMaker, Inc by Daniel Shanahan

Daniel Shanahan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:00:15 +0000

Any chance this meeting will be video recorded/streamed?

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