The rest of our user base will be hearing more about this in the months to come. Accordingly, over the past several years, we have been migrating these firms to FileMaker 16/17/18/19, the last of which is 10 years newer than FileMaker 11. * FileMaker 19: Windows Server 2019 and the Mac OS of recent years have “outrun” FileMaker 11 (become incompatible). Then launch 6-in-1 to allow the update to occur. FileMaker 19 * (Windows and Mac): Unzip the file into your EstateNN folder into your active data directory. FileMaker 11 (Windows): Follow the usual installation instructions (below)ī. We welcome Andrew to the team, and look forward to seeing some more of his dazzling innovations.Ī.
Among other things, he has been instrumental in building the automatic License Key update feature introduced in this current update. He brings a big personality and an amazing array of technical skills to the job. It turns out that, in addition to playing a spectacular version of the barber in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, he had been using FileMaker for some 24 years (since he was 17). Vince and Anne Lackner hosted him for six weeks in June/July of 2015 when he performed for the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh (now Pittsburgh Festival Opera), then twice more in the next three years. Most of you who have interacted with us over the past months have gotten to know Andrew Cummings, an opera singer (baritone) originally from Maine, then Quakertown PA, and now Yonkers NY. We always appreciated the good humor and great competence with which he did his job, and will miss him! If you have a Marty story or testimonial you would like to share, we’ll include it in the batch we’ll present to him at his delayed retirement party: Cummings (Marty 2.0) On one support call (of the thousands that he handled over 20 years), he told one user that “About taxes, I know nothing.” We couldn’t help but observe that he was underestimating himself.
He mastered the registry he conquered the installers he became a world-class expert on FileMaker Server he packaged up the software multiple times a year and he trained countless users on how to press Next, Next, Next, Accept, Next, Finish. Until his retirement in 2020, he spent 20 years applying his renowned bedside manner to 6-in-1 users who were his “patients” as he tried to diagnose what ailed them. Marty O’Toole had a 20-year career as a podiatrist before joining us in tech support in 2000. Administrative and IT personnel and “self-help” users: please see installation instructions/reminders at the end of this e-mail.Īlways close 6-in-1 (standalone on your desktop, or FileMaker Server on your server in multi-user scenarios).