After Sonoma 14.0 installation Filemaker drop down boxes causes crash.

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After Sonoma 14.0 installation Filemaker drop down boxes causes crash.

After downgrading to Ventura 13.6, now 2 of my apps fail to load and start.

The errors says

"FileMaker Pro quit unexpectedly'.

It was opening before in Ventura and was opening in Sonoma. The problem with Sonoma is that the filmmaker pro 15 is not compatible.

(someone in the filmmaker forum told me this) That's when I decided to downgrade back to Ventura.

In Sonoma, the filmmaker database was working well but every single pulldown box would cause the system to hang up ( not responding) I could not work with my database. So I had to downgrade. I did this with the startup options, erased the Mac HD and then It gave me the option to re-install Ventura. I did this then copied all my data back in from the Time Machine and now I have only these 2 apps which won't start. Filemaker and Graphic. I don't know what to do.

PS When I was in Sonoma, I was trying to print my monthly bank statement. I was only throwing out a blank piece of paper and the print to PDF was just blank as well. This morning I tried this again with Ventura and it works perfectly. Just as observation.

iMac 24″

Posted on Oct 10, 2023 12:40 AM

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Owl-53

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Oct 10, 2023 4:31 AM in response to FreeRider350

FreeRider350 wrote:

After downgrading to Ventura 13.6, now 2 of my apps fail to load and start.

The errors says

"FileMaker Pro quit unexpectedly'.

It was opening before in Ventura and was opening in Sonoma. The problem with Sonoma is that the filmmaker pro 15 is not compatible.

(someone in the filmmaker forum told me this) That's when I decided to downgrade back to Ventura.

In Sonoma, the filmmaker database was working well but every single pulldown box would cause the system to hang up ( not responding) I could not work with my database. So I had to downgrade. I did this with the startup options, erased the Mac HD and then It gave me the option to re-install Ventura. I did this then copied all my data back in from the Time Machine and now I have only these 2 apps which won't start. Filemaker and Graphic. I don't know what to do.

Suggest removing the Problematic Applications ( 2 ) as per the Developers Specific Instructions

The Re-Install the removed application from the Developers Web Site as New Installations

Having Copied ALL Data from a TM Backup while running macOS 14 Sonoma back into macOS 13 Ventura may have not worked as expected on some Applications

PS When I was in Sonoma, I was trying to print my monthly bank statement. I was only throwing out a blank piece of paper and the print to PDF was just blank as well. This morning I tried this again with Ventura and it works perfectly. Just as observation.

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FreeRider350 Author

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Oct 10, 2023 5:11 AM in response to Owl-53

Would it be a good idea to go back to the start up options and look if there was an OS Ventura backup on the Time Machine. The last time I had to erase the Mac HD in the Utilities and then it gave me back Ventura to completely re-load. Only when that was finished, I had to load the TM backup files. Took 4 hours to. complete

Before I had done that, I was looking at the back up list in the startup options, and it had 4 Sonoma files and the rest were all before 10:00 and were from Ventura. I had tried clicking on one but it said something like you can't do that. Maybe they are now available?

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