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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: FileMaker Archaeology
Date: 14 Dec 2015 19:23:44 GMT
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On 2015-12-14, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I posted this in comp.databases.filemaker but that group gets even less 
> traffic than this one (if possible).
>
> I have been using FieMaker since before Claris bought it.  I now find 
> I'd like to go back and retrieve data stored in some of those older 
> databases.  My current version (12) refuses to open the older 
> databases, even, to my mind, some relatively recent ones (ca 2009).
>
> Is anyone aware of a table showing which database versions can be 
> opened by which FileMaker versions and which Mac OS's are required to 
> run those versions?  I know I am probably going to have to go back to 
> at least OS 8.5.
>
> Better, is there some freeware somewhere which can open these things?
>
> I have the same problem with Word and Excel documents, but that's 
> another newsgroup :)
>
> What good is digitizing all your data if the technology to read it 
> disappears?  I should have used papyrus.

You might try running the older versions of FileMaker in a VM or
emulator...

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