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Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today

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On 2018-05-31 22:10:28 +0000, DipStick said:
> On 2018-05-31 01:49:25 +0000, Helpful Harry said:
>>> 
>>> Yeah, once I get used to software I don't want to learn another 
>>> version.  I had that issue with Office 2008 - even though it was a 
>>> complete piece of shit.  At the time I finally threw in the towel and 
>>> learned iWork.
>> 
>> Mine was more a case of the old G3 simply not being able to run 
>> anything newer (it was also "stuck" on MacOS X 10.2) ... BUT the newer 
>> versions of FileMaker Pro definitely have been becoming more 
>> overly-complicated and less user-friendly. The horrible Relationship 
>> 'tree' being the most obvious example.
> 
> Yeah, when they finally ditched PowerPC and went x64/86 it caused some 
> pain.  Almost as bad as when they stopped including 3.5" floppy drives!

Th eproblem wasn't so much that Apple stopped including floppy drives, 
but that they stopped including any drives capable of writing data, 
making it hard to move files around (USB "memory sticks" / thumb drives 
were still relatively expensive and USB not available on every 
computer).



> People are saying the same thing about AutoCAD 2018.  But there's 
> AutoCAD 2018 LT.  AutoCAD Lite?  AutoCAD and FM are two programs I'd 
> like to learn how to use, but working full time and studying for the 
> CPA doesn't leave me much time.  I have two books on AutoCAD one for 
> 2017 one for 2018.
> 
> Unrelated: what was the biggest file you ever encountered?  Excluding 
> video & audio files.  A few years ago my friend from college dealt with 
> a 900MB DXF (AutoCAD) which grew to 1GB by the end of the day.  
> Surprisingly the users were able to open and manipulate the file 
> perfectly fine.

I don't know about the biggest. I've never bothered to keep track. I do 
work with some large print documents, although none over a few tens of 
megabytes.

Some document files can contain a lot of excess garbage when they are 
simply saved and saved over the top. For example, document files from 
apps like Pagemaker and Adobe InDesign tend to grow bigger and bigger 
over the time they are used, but if you perform a 'Save As' (to a new 
name or the same name), all the extra rubbish gets removed and the 
filesize is suddenly smaller - in some cases A LOT smaller. It might be 
the same with AutoCAD, but I've never used it.

Video, audio, disk images, etc. can all be large filesizes by necessity.

Databases too can be huge if they've got a lot of records / data stored 
in them. One reason why the old FileMaker method of storing related 
'tables' in separate files was a good idea (and I think can still be 
done in the newer versions).

Helpful Harry  :o)

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FileMaker 17 Released Today Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2018-05-15 09:05 -0700
  Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2018-05-15 17:13 +0000
  Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-16 09:14 +1200
    Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-05-16 10:03 +1200
  Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-15 18:35 -0400
    Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Christoph L. Kaufmann <clkaufmann@gmx.ch> - 2018-05-17 09:03 +0200
      Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-17 16:07 -0400
        Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-18 09:53 +1200
          Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-29 18:24 -0400
        Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Christoph L. Kaufmann <clkaufmann@gmx.ch> - 2018-05-19 10:34 +0200
          Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-20 10:37 +1200
          Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-29 18:20 -0400
            Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-30 13:22 +1200
              Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-30 13:29 +1200
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-30 19:03 -0400
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-05-31 13:49 +1200
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> - 2018-05-31 18:10 -0400
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-06-01 13:35 +1200
                Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2018-06-03 08:28 +0000
              Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2018-06-03 08:23 +0000

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