This from Jim Rea, the President of Provue Develoment (http://provue.com/cgi-bin/Panorama.cgi?qnazone~qnamessage~13335):
" the total memory available to Panorama is no more than 1.1 GB.
At WWDC I verified that this was true even on a machine with 8 GB of memory. I set up Panorama's powerpc.ini file to request 3 GB of memory, but the operating system would only give Panorama 1.1 GB. I was able to get some input on this from an Apple engineer at the conference. Currently Panorama is requesting the memory from Apple's Carbon interface. Apparently if Panorama requests the memory directly from UNIX we should be able to get up to about 2.5 GB. So we'll be looking into doing that in a future release. This may have to wait until Panorama is moved to XCode —— if so it won't happen for a while."

So even with more RAM in a machine, the allocation for Panorama memory is limited to 1.1GB. So don't expect Panorama to be able to handle a 1.6 GB file, as I tried to do.

Their customer support did get back with me on the foreign language issue, so thumbs up on that. Though they are a bit misinformed about alphabetizing resources, telling me that no resource will treat dual vowels like oe the same as ö. Not true, every program with German language options does exactly that. Still they helpfully pointed out that it is possible to change the sorting resources in Panorama, so I will look into it.

Or will at the point they move to Xcode and up the memory allocation so I can use the software. Until then I will having a cup of coffee while Filemaker plugs away, slowly but surely.

Cheers, rpm