Frontier and Filemaker under OS X

[Nick Cahill]

I recently upgraded from Frontier 6 under Mac OS 9 to Frontier 7 and 
then 8 under OS X, and have run into a problem that has stopped me 
dead. A number of my Frontier scripts call various Filemaker 
databases in simple ways -- for instance

DBRow =  get(record[cell[1] == someValue])

Under OS 9, (Frontier 6.0.5, Filemaker 5.0) this lookup was almost 
instantaneous. Under OS X, on the other hand, it can take 20-30 
seconds to retrieve a single record from a 1300-record database. This 
is a show-stopper since I often have to go through thousands of 
lookups.

I don't think this is a Frontier problem -- the same thing happens 
with Applescript under OS X. But I wonder if anyone out there has had 
a similar experience, and if there's a cure for it? Is anyone out 
there using Filemaker in this way, and have you run into speed 
problems -- or is it something purely local in my setup or copy of 
Filemaker or something? If anyone uses calls like this with success, 
I'd love to hear at least that it's possible.

I'm running Frontier 8.0.5, Filemaker 5.5v1, MacOS X 10.1.3 on a 
Powerbook G4 500 MHz, with 512 MB memory, if that's any help.

Many thanks,

Nick Cahill

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