You could have said in your comments on Bento 1 that a limitation to it is that you could not see or change the database beyond two years. Has this changed in Bento 2? That's one example of an worthwhile review and/or flaw in the program. Instead you chose to tell all of us in great detail of the trouble that just trying Bento was for you. Spare us the agony, please!
Sadly though, I don't disagree with your conclusions. Bento is a black eye on Filemaker and the only good thing I could say about it so far is that it reveals how bad Apple's Calendar program database really is.
If you are a M$ Entourage convert, you know that data from Entourage imported into Calendar/Addressbook heavily screws up the latter. Bento1 exposes that cra**ed up data to some extent. Fixing it however is another story.
Bento2 has been some improvement in that regard and some others, but is it worth $50 (not $100) discounted price? Probably not. At list , definitely not! I will try it for about five minutes.
This reminds me of the fated Filemaker Mobile that they put out year after year not fixing bugs but simply extending the functionality to newer versions of the mother program for silly Palm users (and I was one!). Probably the same team wrote Bento. Silly us for buying.
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You could have said in your comments on Bento 1 that a limitation to it is that you could not see or change the database beyond two years. Has this changed in Bento 2? That's one example of an worthwhile review and/or flaw in the program. Instead you chose to tell all of us in great detail of the trouble that just trying Bento was for you. Spare us the agony, please!Sadly though, I don't disagree with your conclusions. Bento is a black eye on Filemaker and the only good thing I could say about it so far is that it reveals how bad Apple's Calendar program database really is.
If you are a M$ Entourage convert, you know that data from Entourage imported into Calendar/Addressbook heavily screws up the latter. Bento1 exposes that cra**ed up data to some extent. Fixing it however is another story.
Bento2 has been some improvement in that regard and some others, but is it worth $50 (not $100) discounted price? Probably not. At list , definitely not! I will try it for about five minutes.
This reminds me of the fated Filemaker Mobile that they put out year after year not fixing bugs but simply extending the functionality to newer versions of the mother program for silly Palm users (and I was one!). Probably the same team wrote Bento. Silly us for buying.
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