fp7 file?

[Peter Ceresole]

Somebody has sent me an .fp7 file. I'm not sure I have anything that
will open it. Suggestions?

--
Peter

[Mark]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:24:04 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote
(in article <1k3li9a.byujx61gmowowN%pe...@cara.demon.co.uk>):

> Somebody has sent me an .fp7 file. I'm not sure I have anything that
> will open it. Suggestions?
>

It's a FileMaker Pro file. Over and above that...

Cheers ... Mark

[David Empson]

Peter Ceresole <pe...@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Somebody has sent me an .fp7 file. I'm not sure I have anything that
> will open it. Suggestions?

It is a database document for FileMaker Pro 7.0 or later (so far all
versions since 7 have the same file format).

FileMaker Pro and variants such as FileMaker Server are the only
applications I know of on the Mac which can read a FileMaker Pro
database. The same applications are available for Windows. There is also
an iOS variant (FileMaker Go, with separate versions for iPhone and
iPad).

You can download a 30 day free trial of FileMaker Pro from
www.filemaker.com, but I don't recall offhand what restrictions it has
apart from the time limit.

It might make more sense for you to ask the sender to export the data
and sent it in a form you can import into something you do have. All
versions of FileMaker Pro can export most of its data as text file you
could import into a spreadsheet, and recent versions of FileMaker can
directly export an Excel spreadsheet.

That won't help if you need to run any scripted aspects of the database,
and may not be the best option if you need non-textual data, or are
supposed to be modifying the data in some way. In that case you may need
to buy FileMaker Pro, which is about the local equivalent of US$300.

--
David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

[Peter Ceresole]

David Empson <dem...@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> It might make more sense for you to ask the sender to export the data
> and sent it in a form you can import into something you do have.

Thanks- that's what I am planning to do.
--
Peter