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Default Re: Nutshell Plus II - 02-06-2009 , 01:06 PM







I worked a lot with NUTSHELL back in the day. It was a glorified flat file
database.
Just moving it from DOS PC to Windows PC would not corrupt it. It stored
all its files in one folder (usually). Several people allegedly ran NUTSHELL
on WindowsXP.

I never found ANY other tool to properly read its data; I had to export it
from with in NUTSHELL. As I recall in one of the versions there was a repair
function.

The file format was propriety, but I doubt it was that complex.
As far I I knew any upgrade was an export data and import to rewritten system
situation.




Nevada6372 <user (AT) example (DOT) net> wrote:
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I have a client that is using an old database called, Nutshell Plus II.

The copyrights are from Claris Corp, 1989, and IRIS software in 1990.
The database files have a '.db' extension to them. In the process of
moving the DOS-based database to a Windows machine where it could be
backed up and possibly upgraded to a newer database, it became
corrupted. As dumbfounded as I was that this happened, it was more
surprising that there was no backup, and that the customer has about 90%

of his data in this database. The utilities that came with the
software, NUTUTILS, did nothing to help the matter. I was able to find

an older version of the database, about 8 months old, but at least it
was something. Does anyone know if there is a utility that can repair
this database? Is it possible to upgrade this database to a version
that would bring it into the 21st Century? I did some research and
found that Nutshell was closely related to the earliest versions of
Filemaker, though I believe it was only for the MAC. Do you think an
old version of Filemaker and/or a database such as dBase III would be
able to import/convert the data from Nutshell? Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Eric


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