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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Ken,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I would be tempted to do an informal "downgrade" and have all of the writers use FrameMaker 8. I am running FrameMaker 8 with Windows 7 with no problems. In my opinion, FrameMaker 8 is still the "gold" version of FrameMaker as far as speed and stability.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Otherwise, make sure the writers have plenty of RAM. In my opinion, 8 GB is the minimum. This may help with the performance problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rick Quatro<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Carmen Publishing Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>585-283-5045<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>rick@frameexpert.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Poshedly<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 08, 2013 11:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> FrameMaker Users List<br><b>Subject:</b> Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=yiv1545870390><div><div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_39"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Due to the addition of 2 new contract writers and the replacement of the hard drive in an existing terminal in my department, we're now stuck with Windows 7 and FrameMaker 11 on those three platforms for the past month or so.<br><br>And it's been nothing but problems ever since, with unpredictable crashes on the desktop computers used by the two contract writers, even though all three FM 11 platforms have all the Adobe patches.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_58"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_64"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>One thing which does seem consistent is that FM11 does not seem to work well with files located on our network server, yet that is really the method here. Symptoms may include _extremely_ long times to open, save and close files and MAY include the abovementioned FrameMaker crashes, though we have not yet confirmed that.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_157"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_159"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>The "fix" is for the contract writers to copy files from our 4-terrabyte network drive onto external hard drives cabled to their terminals and for my coworker to copy files directly onto his computer's internal hard drive; then copy the revised file back into place in its location on the network drive. <br><br>The two contract writer desktop computers have ridiculously internal small hard drives. (One is 29 megabytes and the other is 185 megabytes I've been told.)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_68"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_72"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Me? I'm happy as a clam with Windows XP and FrameMaker 8 working across the network with no FM crashes or other problems -- though I do have to suffer through the long times to open, save and close files because we now must embed all our graphics instead of referencing them. (I've boohoo'd about that here in the past, so I'll not repeat the faulty reasoning for it once again.)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_141"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv1545870390yui_3_7_2_63_1375964420720_143"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>But doom is in my future, as all four of us are soon to get new platforms with Windows 7 and FM 11.<br><br>This I really dread.<br><br>Who else out there is having what seems to be incompatibility problems with platforms equipped with FM 11 and Windows 7 and how have you gotten around those problems?<br><br>Off-list accounts, etc, are fine.<br><br>-- Ken in Atlanta<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>