Greetings!

My publishing operation is running our home-made integrated solution in
FM Pro 4.0 (under Classic on Mac OS X). It still works, but support for
Classic has deteriorated under Tiger and pretty soon we're going to have
to deal with this. My question is, would we be better off trying to
convert (or rather recreate) our system (which is not too complex, just
some relationally linked modules for invoicing, customer tracking,
inventory, etc.) in FM Pro 7 or 8? (I don't know if 7 is still
available, but our department has an unused license for 7, so we could
conveniently use that. 8 we would have to pay for ourselves.)

I assume 7 and 8 use the same file format, so a database solution
created in 7 would be upwardly portable to 8 without significant
problems? Like 3 to 4 way back when we designed this?

Thanks in advance!

George

For a variety of reasons, FileMaker 8 Advanced is the far superior tool for
when you are migrating solutions from legacy versions. FM7 will do automatic
conversion of old files, but they are almost certainly going to need cleanup
and adjustment. The tools in FM8Advanced make it much easier to do that.

Bill

"George Nospam" <gfowler (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote

Bill Marriott <wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org> wrote:

I've to migrate from FMP6 and I just get FMP8.

I think you are quite right !!!
--
Philippe Manet

Be sure to take advantage of the (first time ever offered) upgrade from
FileMaker 6 Standard to FileMaker 8 Advanced as only Advanced has the
ability to copy/paste the field definitions, script steps, tables, etc.
These and other developer tools are what I'm speaking of when recommending
this path.

Bill

"manet" <pmanet (AT) invivo (DOT) edu> wrote