Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About this guide
- Registration and customer support
- Update notification
- About the license key
- Activating your FileMaker software
- Hardware and software requirements
- Networking requirements
- Web publishing requirements
- Requirements for other features (Windows)
- Requirements for other features (Mac OS)
- Features not supported in Mac OS X
- Features not supported in Windows
- Opening files from previous versions
- Updating your User Dictionary
- Installing under a volume license
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in the Mac OS
- Chapter 4 New features
16 | Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
When you modify or repair FileMaker Pro, you may be prompted to enter
your license key.
Note Before uninstalling FileMaker Pro, deactivate your software. See
“Activating your FileMaker software” on page 7 for more information.
Changing the FileMaker Pro cache size
FileMaker Pro maintains an internal cache of portions of your database.
Depending on your computer’s memory configuration, you may want to
adjust the cache size to improve performance.
You may want to consider increasing the cache size if you plan to:
1 work on a large database file
1 work on several database files at once
1 host database files
1 use a database file that contains many graphics
1 insert a large graphic into a database file
Consider decreasing the cache size if you plan to run several applications at
the same time and you have a limited amount of memory
(RAM) installed.
Note When you increase or decrease the FileMaker Pro cache size, you also
increase or decrease the amount of memory needed to run FileMaker
Pro.
For more information on managing memory, see the documentation that
came with your computer.
To change the cache size that FileMaker Pro uses:
1. In FileMaker Pro, choose Edit menu > Preferences.
The Preferences dialog box appears.