Oct

25

Lion, iCloud, and Bento…

Filed Under Bento Basics, Bento Bugs, Bento Issues, Bento News, Bento Tips, Editorial | 6 Comments 

Urgent recommendations to all Bento users who are not in the habit of doing so:
Check the Bento Forums regularly (link on the sidebar) for any known issues, look at recent user posts, and report all technical issues there as well.
These forums are moderated by Filemaker employees who have extensive testing facilites and personnel and are not afraid to use them. We don’t have any resources like that at BentoUsers.

Let me repeat the most recent issue:
Before you migrate from Mobile Me to iCloud or otherwise turn on on iCloud,
do this:
Make sure you have Bento 4.06
Launch it.
Quit Bento.

After that, you should be ready to surf the new Clouds.

Since Mobile Me will be available until June 30, 2012, I personally am not in a hurry to get OSX Lion and iCloud. But since there are very few issues which have been reported in the Bento forums, I have to assume that Bento is generally ready for the transition. That doesn’t mean that the problems reported here on BentoUsers are not real. But they are not the norm, but rather horrible bad luck.
Still, let’s all keep our eyes and ears open…

Oct

1

Bento 4.06 Available

Filed Under Bento News | 4 Comments 

More bug fixes (OSX Lion) and iCloud compatibility are the promises of the newest Bento update.
As always, just update from within the app.

Aug

23

Bento Price Drop Confirmed!

Filed Under Bento News | 6 Comments 

For a limited time (whatever that exactly means), Bento 4 is only $29 for new users! So if you hesitated before, now is the time to buy!
At this price there is no rebate for previous users anymore for the single user version, but there is a $20 rebate for the Family Pack (now $79 for previous users).

Aug

9

Bento 4.0.5 Available!

Filed Under Bento News | 6 Comments 

That was pretty fast; thanks Filemaker, Inc.

Bento 4.0.5 is supposed provide full Lion compatibility. You can download it through the in-app update feature (Bento Menu).

Good luck…

Aug

1

It’s Confirmed: Lion Is Fighting Bento!

Filed Under Bento Issues, Bento News | 8 Comments 

I’m glad I didn’t upgrade to Mac OS 10.7 (aka Lion) yet.

TS Gal, the main tech person on the Bento forum, confirmed that we have an unsolved problem. Here’s a direct quote (response to user report):
“I am able to replicate the problem (=frequent crashes) under Bento 4.0.4 and Lion, as it works properly under Bento 4.0.4 and Snow Leopard. During the time the beach ball was spinning, I ran Activity Monitor and captured a sample. I sent this file along with your data file to our Development and Testing departments for review…” So now we wait.

Simple recommendation:
If you haven’t adopted Lion yet, hold off until Bento 4.0.5 is released.

P.S.: BTW, I had failed to report that Bento 4.0.4 under Snow Leopard seems to be more stable than 4.0.3 – I don’t experience any more crashes.

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