We still use FileMaker Pro 6, and every so often something will cause it to become as responsive as frozen molasses. For the longest time I had no clue why this was happening, but knew that a reboot always solved the problem. Some days FileMaker would be as happy as a clam, but other days it would be angry and angry often (aka multiple reboots).
I didn’t know how to troubleshoot this since, a) there were no apparent “errors”, and b) it felt extremely random. Fortunately, a co-worker of mine encountered the same problem while I was watching him work with a database. I noticed the problem occurred right after he copied the contents of a Word document to the clipboard. I did a quick Google search for clearing the clipboard, and found the following command:
pbcopy < /dev/null
Issuing the above command clears the clipboard and consistently resolves the FileMaker slowness problem! The question is, why is FileMaker Pro 6 so sensitive to the clipboard contents?
