Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ErikRS Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: FileMaker Archaeology Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 02:19:04 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 89 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.D2947BF80002EDACB01029BF@news.astraweb.com> <1mfgwdy.6sw3o11sa65ozN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: solani.org 1450142344 13193 eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXOkYLnqMC/59gwl+fbrgo53DCPUZ5DQusGOw5ZOeypiWvIgr7GE4BrXkNaRDY (15 Dec 2015 01:19:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:19:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 X-User-ID: eJwNyMEBwCAIA8CVhJJExkHF/Uew9zx8NG4FwcDFnWs6qq14+L8by3OoulNIXzaydIaU1gHfDxJvEHo= In-Reply-To: <1mfgwdy.6sw3o11sa65ozN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.solani.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2fMIZ4x2iv+qawA7PTmk95yoQ/g= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNysEBwCAIA8CVQEjAcUBl/xHaex+MyhNO0DGYsPFX3TWaW1FSq7Oud3CEEepP/7esBSnbPievEMc= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.databases:231 comp.sys.mac.system:86074 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 recommende= d > 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 recommende= d > 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 o= r > 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=20 quite right. I've too many times had to contact our local FMSupport to=20 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=20 elseway than using various apps as I write it. I have been using=20 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' (=3D 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=20 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=20 could see and copy content, but not /convert/ to a usable database=20 format. So I gave up and opened it instead in BBedit and copued the=20 parts that the owner needed here and now... It was vital data which a=20 doctor needed for a surgery. - He got the data for the case and was=20 satisfied. Cheers, Erik Richard --=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard S=F8rensen NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~