Comments on: FileMaker 7.x or 8.x, Leopard and Instant Web Publishing (IWP)

By: mazola

mazola — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:15:56 +0000

Really late to the party here but your solution really helped me out.

Just wanted to say thanks a bunch for this — cheers!

By: kris

kris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:13:55 +0000

Hi bellboy,

Hmm… This is a pretty old post, and I’ve never tried it out on Snow Leopard; there’s a good chance some things have changed between Leopard and Snow Leopard, so I’m not surprised it does not work. However, I currently have no pressing need to run FM 8.x on Snow Leopard, so I won’t be putting time into this – so I guess you’re on your own at this point in time

Hope you figure it out!

Cheers,

Kris

By: bellyboy

bellyboy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:26:02 +0000

And the last clue – here is an error from the console: 1/13/2010 5:03:46 PM [0x0-0x458458].com.filemaker.pro8[11204] omniORB: Unrecoverable error for this endpoint: giop:tcp:10.3.2.43:5003, it will no longer be serviced.

By: bellyboy

bellyboy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:10:24 +0000

One more detail. When I start up FM after doing this, I am asked to enter my password. I still get the error message with IWP and after first startup, the FM Web Publishing file reverts to root ownership. The second time I start FM with no changes, no password is needed, but of course still no success. I have doubled checked that the file has been fully patched – can’t see anything amiss there. And I patched all the other frameworks as well – there were quite a few. No joy.

By: bellyboy

bellyboy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:48:36 +0000

I’m late to the party here. Just ran into this problem, followed the instructions very carefullly and had no issues executing them, but no success. I am running version 8.0v3 on Snow Leopard. Has this problem been properly solved somewhere else now or is it still ongoing?

By: joewhite

joewhite — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:22:28 +0000

Brilliant! Thank you for publishing this fix!! Worked like a champ on my Mac Mini serving some files for a non-profit.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:26:05 +0000

Ah – right-clicking! Forgot to mention, but right-clicking with a one-button mouse is easy enough: press the Control key, hold it down, and click the mouse button. That’s the same as right-clicking!

Thanks for the comment!

Cheers,

Kris

By: MightyPerl

MightyPerl — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:58:18 +0000

Thank you so much for this information! We have Filemaker 8.5 Pro Advanced and had this same problem when migrating to a new computer. I followed your updated instructions, copying all of the frameworks and using the lovingly hand-crafted path you made up. It worked perfectly and we really appreciate the help!

The only thing I had a problem with was right-clicking… we don’t have a two button mouse. I looked up “Show package contents” and found that it is under the “gear” dropdown in the Finder.

Thanks again!
John

By: mwoerner

mwoerner — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:46:02 +0000

Hi Kris,

Have sung your praises back on the FMForums as I have managed to get it to work as per your instructions.
Thank you & congratulations on the detail you go to in your instructions. It is rare & my failure to get this to work was 100% due to my incompetence.
Michael

By: mwoerner

mwoerner — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:11:04 +0000

Hi Kris,

Michael from FMForums. Have tried your very detailed fix & stuffed up somewhere as it’s not working. Have left a more detailed response on the FMForums.