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Re: FileMaker Archaeology

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David Empson wrote:
> FileMaker II, Pro 1 and Pro 2 files can be converted by FileMaker Pro 3
> through 6 (according to FileMaker Inc., and the manual for Pro 6
> mentions Pro 1 and 2 as import options).
>
> FileMaker Pro 3 and 4 have the same file format (.fp3 is the recommended
> extension). These files can be converted by FileMaker Pro 5 through 11.
>
> FileMaker Pro 5 and 6 have the same file format (.fp5 is the recommended
> extension). These files can be converted by FileMaker Pro 7 through 11.
>
> FileMaker Pro 7 through 11 have the same file format (.fp7 is the
> standard extension). These files can be converted by FileMaker Pro 12 or
> later.
>
> FileMaker Pro 12 and later (up to 14 so far) have the same file format
> (.fmp12 is the standard extension).
>
> Within each file format, the individual versions added features, and
> those features don't work in earlier versions. As a rule of thumb, if
> you avoid new features, databases saved by newer versions within the
> same group can still be used with older versions within the same group,
> but it is recommended that you don't use older versions once a database
> has been used with a newer version.

If it is as you write it isn't the first time that the FMSupport isn't 
quite right. I've too many times had to contact our local FMSupport to 
get some help and/or clearifications to their websites.

And I find it very strange that I haven't been able to open and convert 
elseway than using various apps as I write it. I have been using 
Filemaker from FM II and FMP 2.0 and up to ver. 11.x which is my latest.

>> All FM/FMP databases can be opened as text-only in the full BBedit to be
>> saved either as 'Tab-Deliminated-Text' (= Tab Separarated Text) or
>> 'Plain Text'.
>
> Only in your alternate universe. FileMaker Pro databases are not text
> files. Text in fields inside the database might extractable by loading
> them into a plain text editor like BBEdit, but the files contain a lot
> of binary structure which can't easily be cleaned out by a text editor.
>
> (Yes, I checked, using simple single file/table databases in .fp3, .fp5
> and .fp7 format.)

I didnot mention anything about retaining /any/ kind of formattings. But 
you're right it takes quite a lot of time to strip out formatting codes 
etc..

>> Also MacLinkPlus 15.x OS X ver. can convert many FM/FMP databases to '
>> Tab-Deliminated-Text' or 'Plain Text'. But here I'm not sure which FMP
>> versions are supported newer than v.6.x.x.
>
> I can't verify that as I don't have version 15, but versions 13 and 16
> don't mention FileMaker Pro as a supported file format, so it seems
> likely that this claim about version 15 is also wrong.

I can only tell that I used MLP 15 to open a +600mb hudge database and 
could see and copy content, but not /convert/ to a usable database 
format. So I gave up and opened it instead in BBedit and copued the 
parts that the owner needed here and now... It was vital data which a 
doctor needed for a surgery. - He got the data for the case and was 
satisfied.

Cheers, Erik Richard

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