Hi all,

I really need urgent help on the procedure of how to convert/save a file in filemaker pro 5 format when using file maker pro 7 as I need to use the current files on a different system that has filemaker pro 5 installed and upgrading is out of the question. I need your help!!!

Thanx in advance

Stephen

Forget it, 7 can not save as a different FM version

All you can do is rewrite the application in FMP5 and export/import the data.

There must be some way to convert them to the older format surely, you can do it with MS Word, why is Filemaker behind the times??? I really need to convert it to version 5 otherwise ill have to spend hours upon hours redoing it in version 5 which is really really really annoying. Surely there must be a way!

Seeing as it is already well-neigh impossible (or at least prohibitively complicated and time-consuming for any solution more complicated than a stamp-collection) to convert a version 5 to version 7, because of the humongous change of the FileMaker engine, going the other way must have seemed impossible to even FMI themselves.

I have not heard of anything, including third party applications, that could help with that, but maybe and hopefully a more learned person here has some trick for us?

The comparison with Word in terms of the gap you are trying to bridge: you are not trying to convert a file from Word 2000 into Word 1997, you are trying to convert a file from Word 2004 into DOS's edlin

...great...

Why do you need to redo everything in FM5? You can get the *data* into FM5 easy enough. Or you could turn on FM7 Instant Web Publishing and let the other computer see the data through the browser.