Hi Karstyn,

I ran into the same problem. On quick note, my response is related to my
experience with FileMaker databases.
With that, it has nothing to do with the database size. It has to do with the
number of fields and how your layouts are set up. My files are a few hundred
MB each and I have 150-200 fields in the file. It turns out that I had fields
on my layout that were set up to display value lists. Some of these value
lists were HUGE because they were set up to display all fields in the record.
Within FileMaker that works fine. However, LS4DW lists every item in the
value lists in the snapshot file. My database had about 5000 records. I had
these huge value lists assigned to multiple fields on my layout. That is
enough to make the snapshot process fail. Way too many records.

My suggestion is make sure your layouts are clean and don't have massive
value lists assigned to fields.

Regards,

Michael Forte
Flying Buffalo Enterprises, Inc.
mforte@flyingbuffalo.net

In a message dated 3/9/01 11:47:55 PM, Karstyn McCoy writes:

<< Subject: DW Slooooooooooooooooooooooooow
From: karst@hiscs.org
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:42:17 -0800 (PST)

First, there must be an art to getting a good snapshot - an art I have not
come
close to mastering. I just did get an almost good snapshot, it totaly missed
one database, but it took literaly 3 hours of processing time! Then when
trying
to use the Form Builder or any of those type of tools, it can take from 2-5
min. between when I click on a button to when the screen finishes a redraw!
Yes, these databases are on the larger side, but not unreasonably so. I tried
to take a snapshot of 5 databases, ranging in size from 2 to 77 MB, and from
6
to 45 layouts, and from 20 to 250 fields. This must be more than LSDW can
handle.
I'm running an iMac SE 400 with 256 MB RAM and 100 MB of that for DW.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or am past the point were a WYSIWIG
editor will be of any practicle use? If this is the case is there an easy way
to uninstall LS?
All suggestions welcome!

Karstyn McCoy >>


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