Any Macheads out there who are familiar with the Filemaker Pro database software?
I’m looking for a way to convert a Filemaker Pro database file to a tab-delimited text file, without using Filemaker itself. I recently upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X 10.7.x (Lion), which discontinued support for PowerPC-only applications, and that means my (very) old copy of Filemaker no longer works.
Naturally, I had the serial numbers of my more valuable possessions stored in a Filemaker DB, and just had a bunch of this crap stolen from me when my ministorage unit was broken into. And now I can’t give the police the serial #'s.
Anybody know of a conversion utility that would accomplish this task? Or a current Filemaker user who would be willing to do the conversion for me if I sent you the file?
I’ll cheerfully convert your db to tab delimited text, or to Excel if you prefer.
You can also download FREE evaluation copy of FileMaker 12 from FileMaker’s web site, convert your existing file (unless it’s truly ancient, as in “Classic application from the System 7 era”), and export it yourself.
I’ll try this, and if it doesn’t work (don’t see why it wouldn’t) I’ll hit one or the other of you up for the conversion. Converting to a text file is something I’d been meaning to do, but never go around to.
My old version was for Mac OS X, but it was quite a few versions back, being PowerPC only.
Hmm… I see that FileMaker 12 may in fact not be set up to be able to convert .fp5 files. Or they could have just left that out of my pre-release version?
If you can’t convert your file, my offer to convert it for you still stands.
Okay, I tried it and it won’t even open the file - says it needs to be converted to the new version (the file itself is showing up in the Finder as a generic “UNIX Executable” file). So I’ll take you up on your offer, if you’ll PM me with where to send it
