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94 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
1 Open dialog box method: In FileMaker Pro 7, choose File
menu
> Open, and select the files you want to convert in the Open
dialog box by holding down Ctrl (Windows) or
2 (Mac OS), and
clicking each file. (You can also select a range of adjacent files by
clicking the first file and then Shift-clicking the last file in the
range.) Then click
Open.
The Open Multiple Files dialog box appears.
4. Choose Open all files and convert when necessary.
5. Click Specify, choose the folder you created in step 2 where you
want to save the converted files, and click OK (Windows) or Choose
(Mac OS).
Important Do not choose a folder that contains any of your original
files. If you do, then converted files may be renamed (by appending
a number to the filename) to prevent the converted files from
replacing the original files. This renaming of files could cause file
references to convert improperly, which affects relationships and
other features that rely on file references.
6. Click Open in the Open Multiple files dialog box to start the
conversion.
During a prolonged conversion, the File Format Conversion dialog
box will appear and show the conversion progress. If a file being
converted contains indexed fields, you can save time by clicking
Skip
when the index is being re-created, which postpones indexing until
later.
FileMaker Pro 7 creates converted files in the folder you specified
and opens them, leaving your original files unchanged. On
Windows, the filename extension
.fp7 is added to all converted files.
On Mac
OS, the .fp7 extension is added to all converted files that
previously had an .fp3, .fp5, or .fmj extension.
If conversion doesn’t work or error messages appear, see “Solving
basic conversion problems” on page 95.
7. Using a text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit
(Mac OS) open the Conversion.log file located in the folder that
contains your converted database files.
The Conversion.log file contains a journal of the conversion process
that you just completed. Much of it contains status messages that
indicate the different file components that were converted. But it also
may contain error messages that indicate areas where you may need
to make manual corrections to the converted files before testing them
further. For more information about the Conversion.log file, see
“Reading the Conversion.log file” on page 95.