Exchanging Mac FM files with Windows and vice versa

[Vaughan]

If you're not networked, how can you exchange information? Floppy disks...

[msohns]

We both have FM Pro 5, but he's on a Mac, and I'm on Windows. What do we need to do in order to exchange information. We're not networked, and that option is not open to us.

[msohns]

Floppies, cd's, zips are the options. Macs can read Windows disks, and, with something like Conversions Plus, Windows can read Mac disks -- but we haven't succeeded in my PC being able to open the Mac Filemaker Pro 5 files. What do we have to do.

I guess I wasn't all that clear in the original question. Sorry.

[ September 07, 2001: Message edited by: msohns ]

[Anatoli]

Do you have the fp5 extension in filename?

Like MacFile.fp5?

[Rigsby]

1.Make sure that the DOS extension is included, .fpd – without this Windows is lost.

2.Install the program “MacOpener 2000” on your Windows machine. I’ve never found a better program. You don’t even know it’s there. Only tip here is avoid using folders, as the Windows machine will have problems opening Mac folders.

[Rigsby]

Sorry! - not fpd but fp5 :-)