Re: Filemaker 3/6 compatibility

Ted

Another thing to consider if you plan to move a number of users from
FileMaker 3/4 to FileMaker 5/6 is that you may have difficulty
finding FileMaker 6 media and licenses for those moved users.
FileMaker is no longer selling them. What's available is FileMaker 7.
To confuse things even more, FileMaker 6 files do not play well with
FileMaker 7. FileMaker 7 licenses may be used with FileMaker 6 as
part of a plan to migrate from FileMaker 6 to FileMaker 7; however,
that doesn't sound like your intention at this time.

Michael L
LSCR

At 3:30 PM -0700 9/27/04, Randall Cayford wrote:
>To add to that, no, you can't make FM6 use FM3 files. You're going
>to have to use Filemaker 3 or 4 on the XP box until you're ready to
>convert the files and change all the users to Filemaker 6.
>
>Randall
>
>
>At 3:08 PM -0700 9/27/04, Greg Merritt wrote:
>>We have XP and 2k machines running with both FM 4 & FM 6 installed
>>at the same time. Give it a shot?
>>
>>-Greg
>>
>>
>>On Sep 27, 2004, at 2:59 PM, tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
>>
>>>I just rolled out an XP box, loaded with Filemaker Pro 6, to a user who
>>>had been using Filemaker Pro 3 against a shared database.
>>>
>>>I seem to have upset the applecart, since Filemaker 6 wants to convert to
>>>its native FP5 format and cannot, apparently, work with FP3.
>>>
>>>Can someone suggest a transition strategy until I finish rolling out
>>>XP/Filemaker6 boxes to the other database users? Can I run Filemaker 3 or
>>>4 on XP for long enough to get me by? Is there a way to force Filemaker 6
>>>to work with the FP3 format?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Ted Crum
>>>
>>>
>>>-- Ted Crum
>>>tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
>>>
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