Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: FileMaker Archaeology Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:42:53 +0100 Organization: the center Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.D2947BF80002EDACB01029BF@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net ZlXg2ew82p0jiHYTxgsH1gcQzyJv9bybUyMVVrRMlY0wltZ/XO X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:pIBFYYOY6voZlrmBmH3gJFRQyuM= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.databases:225 comp.sys.mac.system:86035 > On 2015-12-14, Nelson 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 :) You could try Open Office or Libre Office for legacy MS Office files... > > > > What good is digitizing all your data if the technology to read it > > disappears? I should have used papyrus. -- teleportation kills