[Framers] FM2019 and gremlins

[Lin Sims]

And if you can't use the trial version for some reason, let us know. I know
I'm willing to open it for you and put it through a mif wash, and I doubt
I'm the only one.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:55 AM Jeff Coatsworth <
Jeff.Coatsworth at jonasclub.com> wrote:

> Welcome screen issues - several reports on the FM forum; Adobe is looking
> into it - there's a workaround involving editing the welcome.htm file
> posted. It appears that some Win10 update has messed it up.
>
> Unopenable file - haven't got much to help you on that - maybe download
> the 2020 trial and try opening a copy of it with that and if it works back
> save it & as .mif
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> jonasclub.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of
> tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 6:29 PM
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> Subject: [Framers] FM2019 and gremlins
>
> So,
>
>
>
> I just opened FM2019 (Windows 10, 64-bit, fully updated) for the first time
> in in about a month and a half and whoa. . . the Welcome screen has been
> taken over by gremlins apparently. . . it has a totally different layout,
> font size, different options etc.  I had no idea that this was even
> possible. . .I mean it's a desktop app with a perpetual license so the app
> doesn't have to "phone home"  when I launch it , but then even further,
> after I opened the book that I last worked on 6 weeks ago, and for one file
> in the book, I am getting the following message:
>
>
>
> The file "filename.fm" is not a FM file. Framemaker can try to open the
> file
> in either Framemaker or in the file's native application. Uh, the file
> >>IS<< an FM file . .  . I just worked on it 6 weeks ago w/out any issues.
>
>
>
> When I click on the Framemaker option, I then get a second message stating
> that the file can't be opened with this version of FM. . . but it's a file
> that I just opened 6 weeks ago. I punted and then tried the heroic open
> option to no avail.
>
>
>
> I know the chances of this oddity being related to the Welcome screen
> metamorphosis is pretty slim, but >>SOMETHING<< had to change in the app to
> give me two issues at once.
>
>
>
> Thoughts???? I really, really  need to be able to open this file.
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> TVB
>
>
>
>
>
> Tammy Van Boening
>
> Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
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