Filemaker Migration

[monvillalon]

Good evening,

I do realize i am completely new to your community and hope i am not intruding to much. I am not a filemaker user but i have being hired to migrate an existing filemaker 4 app. All I was given was the application ( Solution i think in your parlance ). When i run it it in Filemaker 9 pro it gets converted into the new format. But when i run it i get a message saying that it can't run on my operating system. I think this is a user generated message and not a message from Filemaker per se. This happens no matter what user i run it as, the admin user is disabled but i did get the password of another user.

I really need to access the data. The previous developer is non existant and I just want to access it somehow so I can start migrating it. If anybody would be kind enough of specifying a way way in which I could get the schemas ( tables, fields etc ) and the data it would be greately appreciated.

I have tried serveral things with no success and my time is running short.

Thanks in advance.

[Vaughan]

Does the "error" message also appear when you open the solution in FMP 4?

[monvillalon]

I really can't check as I don't have access to a FM 4.... I guess if somebody new a way to open the database of the solution directly bypassing scripts.

Sort of how you can do with access applications by opening a pressing Shift.

BTW: Thanks for the reply

[Vaughan]

It's actually not too hard: get another file to perform a script in the file you want to open. Choose one that is harmless.

[monvillalon]

Im sorry, I am afraid I don't know how to even start, remember I am new to FileMaker. Can you explain in more detail or give me some links or something to help me start.