Mac 10.6.8 / FMP 8.0 Adv and 11 Adv

I am in the process of revising my database from FMP 8.0 Adv that does
not play nicely with Snow Leopard to 11 Adv. which is working well at
this stage of revision. In anyone's experience, are there any
conflicts when upgrading to Lion?

Martin ?rautmann <t-usenet (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote:

To be precise: export to .xls (Excel versions prior to 2007) is not
supported in Lion (for any version of FileMaker Pro). FM Pro 10 and 11
can export to .xlsx (Excel 2007 and later).

These FileMaker knowledge base articles on Lion compatibility may help:

FileMaker 11 products:

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9713 (overview)
http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9901 (Pro)
http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9756 (Server)

FileMaker 10 products (or earlier):

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9710

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David Empson
dempson (AT) actrix (DOT) gen.nz

In article <1kbk8dh.12mfrqklcx9odN%dempson (AT) actrix (DOT) gen.nz>,
dempson (AT) actrix (DOT) gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

You can export to the more recent Excel format which is .xlsx

The older .xls file format is PowerPC only. To use on an Intel Mac, it
requires Rosetta. Rosetta is not supported by Lion.

In article
<bbcollins-EB0830.17212830112011 (AT) 70-3-168-216 (DOT) pools.spcsdns.net>, Bill
<bbcollins (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:
The newest version of Excel that saves as .xls format by default may be
PowerPC only (I haven't checked), but the .xls file format itself has no
relation to the chip being used - it can be opened and saved on many
operating systems, CPU chips, and spreadsheet / database software. Newer
versions of Excel do still open and save .xls formatted documents.

FileMaker has (apparently) decided they want to abandon the ability to
export to the older .xls format, but you can still work around that by
exporting to CSV or tab-delimited text formats, which any version of Excel
will open and can then be re-saved as .xls.

Helpful Harry )

Your Name <yourname (AT) yourisp (DOT) com> wrote:

Office 2008 and Office 2011 are universal, and they can save .xls files
on Lion, and at least 2008 can be configured to save .xls as the default
format.

Numbers '09 can export a spreadsheet in .xls format, and I assume that
still works in Lion.

Agreed.

Furthermore, FileMaker Pro can import .xls flies on Lion, so the .xls
import feature isn't dependent on PowerPC code.

It is just the .xls export feature of FileMaker Pro which doesn't work
or is missing in Lion.


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David Empson
dempson (AT) actrix (DOT) gen.nz

In article
<yourname-0112111327490001 (AT) 203-118-175-126 (DOT) nzwide.ihug.co.nz>,
yourname (AT) yourisp (DOT) com (Your Name) wrote:

It is. That would be any Office 2004 component on Mac, 2003 on Windows.

True.

It's not a completely unreasonable decision, since that's now what, two
full release versions out of date? Still getting security updates for
Office 2004 Mac, but that will cease in a couple of years I expect. And,
as you say, there's always comma or tab delimited Excel files.

In article <slrnjdf7ab.7a.t-usenet (AT) ID-685 (DOT) user.individual.de>,
Martin ɱrautmann <t-usenet (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote:

In which case, install the OpenXML converter on any pre-Lion machines,
and the .xlsx format is transparently available. You may even be able
to script conversion with it using folder automation?

In article <no.email-31D0F5.09302501122011 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org>,
David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:
It is completely unreasonable ... I'm still using Office 2001. ;o)

Given how even more horrible each new release of Office is to use (the
current one is awful), I'll probably still be using Office 2001 in another
10 years time.

Helpful Harry )

In article <slrnjdf7ab.7a.t-usenet (AT) ID-685 (DOT) user.individual.de>,
traut (AT) gmx (DOT) de wrote:
All the Office formats have "flaws" and cause trouble, even when used on
other versions of Office. (

Helpful Harry )

In article <no.email-1B074B.11515701122011 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org>,
David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

I don't think OpenXML works on my Mac running Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 10.1. )

I usually just to get the other person to re-save and send the document in
a "proper" format.


Helpful Harry )