I have been trying to do some importing with fairly large interrelated files using FileMaker Pro 10.3 and Snow Leopard in single-user mode. I’ve had several crashes in about a 1/2 hour of efforts. Will now be switching to a machine with Leopard installed and re-do the work. Be forewarned that unspecified problems with FileMaker Pro 10 and Snow Leopard may occur. I’m sure we’ll get clarification soon. I will post an update once I know more. Meanwhile I would recommend against running this combo for the time being.

Update Sep 6 noon PDT: The problem may not be with FileMaker 10. The problem I experienced may be due to one or more of my Filemaker plugins that need updates. I will get all my current plugins up to date and then test again. 360Works updated all of their plugins for Snow Leopard on August 28.

Update Sep 8 11am PDT: Removed all extensions in the FileMaker applications folder. Haven’t tested extensively, but I’ve had a couple crashes of FileMaker since then. Maybe I have a specific other conflict with FileMaker. But what? Next project is to try running FileMaker as the only running app and do a few things and see how that goes.

Resource: Camp Software has good blog post summarizing known issues dated Aug 28.

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Pre-SM 9.1 customers who want to run FileMaker 10 will need two tweaks that will take a total of 30 minutes. We need to do a 2 minute fix for you unless you have full access and can make the change yourself. We will publish the 15 minute fix. It is minor – it is just an adjustment in our resize window script to account for the fact that in FileMaker 10 the status area on the left went away.

FileMaker 10 Early Birds. Yes, FileMaker 10 is really cool. It will allow lots of new things both immediately for end-users and for developers like us. However, I usually recommend you wait at least a week or two or three or four before you replace your existing FileMaker Server installation with a new version. Why not let someone else find a bug that might apply to you?

Customers still running Studio Manager 3 or 4 are running out of Weeks this year. The quick solution is to go to the Weeks file and create new records for additional weeks. It will take just a few minutes to add another year.

We’ve created a couple of FileMaker files you can download and import New_Weeks_7 (SM7-9) or New_Weeks_5 (SM1-4). Just open your old Weeks file and import the New Weeks file with matching field names.