Windows and Macintosh Machines

• When I try to delete a material or change its name, I can't scroll from one material to another. This is a bug in the first release of GlazeMaster 3. Download the current release (3.01 or later) and this has been fixed.

• I have installed GlazeMaster on a new machine and it won't accept my installation code. What's going on? On some of the newer Windows and Intel Macs the installation code is being evaluated incorrectly and rejected. This appears to be a difference in the way remainders left after dividing are calculated. Rather than try to get someone at Apple, Microsoft, Intel or AMD to pay attention to this problem, I have changed the evaluation algorithm to a simpler one that seems to work. You need to download and install a copy of GlazeMaster 3. That, of course, is a free download. Download links can be found at the 'Overview' link at your left--go to the bottom of the page.

• I have a damaged Recipes.USR (or another) file and GlazeMaster suggests I use the 'Recover' command to try to repair it. How do I do this? In FileMaker the Recover command can be accessed from the File menu. It does not appear in the GlazeMaster File menu; however it can still be accessed. Exit/Quit GlazeMaster, hold down both the Option and Command keys (Macintosh) or the Ctrl and Shift keys (Windows) while you double click on the GlazeMaster exe or application file. That will bring up a file-finding dialogue box which you use to locate the damaged file. In most cases--but not all--GlazeMaster will be able to repair the file. But please also backup your GlazeMaster folder regularly. It is bad news to lose dozens of glaze recipes when your computer hiccups--don't ask me how I know this.

For Windows Users: After you click on the Print button that brings up the Print Dialogue box, make sure alongside the word “Print” that “Records Being Browsed” is selected. The other selections are “Blank Record” and “Current Record”. The words may be slightly different from the above on different versions of Windows.

For Macintosh OSX Users: When the print dialogue box appears, look for 'Copies and Pages'. On the right side of those words pull down the menu to GlazeMaster. When that dialogue box appears make sure 'Records Being Browsed' is selected. More than likely, ‘Current Record' is selected. Again, changing it once should be all that is necessary if you follow through and actually print (vs. Cancel).

• I get a 'Page Unavailable' message when I try to download GlazeMaster. This is probably happening because of the way you have your firewall or virus protection software set. GlazeMaster files are on an 'ftp' site and you must have your protection set to allow downloads from that type of site--or else temporarily turn it off. Thanks to Randy McCall for figuring this out.

Windows Machines

• When printing a Recipe or a Batch Mix Sheet, my printer prints an extra page. This is happening in versions 1.0 and 2.0 because the fonts on your machine are just slightly larger than they are on the machine on which I developed the program. The problem was fixed in version 2.1. If you are not ready to upgrade, here is a work-around suggested by Randy McCall. In the print dialogue box change 'Pages' from 'All' to 'From 1 to 1' before you click on Print. Thanks Randy!

Macintosh Machines

• There is an incompatibility between GlazeMaster and iPhoto. If you plug in a camera in order to upload photos to iPhoto, GlazeMaster will probably crash. This is a problem buried deep in the coding of either FileMaker (GlazeMaster is a FileMaker runtime program) or iPhoto which I do not have access to. To be safe it is best to Quit GlazeMaster before uploading photos to iPhoto.