[FX.php List] Crashing Filemaker

Dennis Crall dennis-crall at uiowa.edu
Mon Oct 25 14:04:26 MDT 2004


Dale,

Thank you for the suggestion. The script ran perfectly after I updated. I
should have thought of that myself.

Thanks again,

Denny


On 10/25/04 2:26 PM, "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
> 
> I would strongly suggest updating your copy of FMP to 6.0v4 and then
> see if the problems persist. Also, update your Web Companion Extension
> to 6.0v3. The updaters (Mac and Windows) may be found at
> <http://www.filemaker.com/support/updaters.html>.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Dale
> --
> Dale Bengston | Streamline Studio, LLC | dbengston at streamline-studio.com
> Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
> 
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:11 PM, Dennis Crall wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've created a FX.php script that runs from the command line. What it
>> does
>> is this:
>> 
>> 1. Grabs all records, 215 in all, from the database. The database only
>> contains 6 text fields, so there's not a lot of information.
>> 
>> 2. Iterates over all the records. For each record the script:
>> 
>>     a. Makes an LDAP query.
>> 
>>     b. Updates the record.
>> 
>>     c. Writes the record back to the database.
>> 
>> The script works fine for 2/3 of the records but eventually FileMaker
>> (6.0.3
>> Developer) crashes. It crashes such that I have to force quit the
>> application and then recover the database. Unfortunately, I'm left
>> with no
>> error messages.
>> 
>> It seems like the problem is with FileMaker and not my script. I have
>> been
>> unable to narrow the problem to a specific record, and the script runs
>> fine
>> if I narrow the original search. Is this too much load for FMP? Would
>> Unlimited do better? Are there other pitfalls I should be
>> investigating?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Dennis Crall
>> ITS-Academic Technologies
>> University of Iowa
>> 
>> 
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