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96 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
database administrator, consult your database administrator for
password information. For more information, see “Passwords” in the
next section.
Converting FileMaker Pro 1.x
and 2.x databases
FileMaker Pro 7 cannot convert databases created with
FileMaker
Pro 1.x or 2.x. To use these files with FileMaker Pro 7,
you must convert them using FileMaker
Pro 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, or 6.x, and
then convert them again using FileMaker
Pro 7.
Note Previous versions of FileMaker Pro for Windows can convert
only 2.x files. If you need to convert a 1.x file, convert the file on a
Mac
OS computer using FileMaker Pro 3.x, 4.x, 5.x or 6.x.
If you don’t have a previous FileMaker Pro application with which
to do the conversion, you can download a trial version of
FileMaker
Pro 6 from www.filemaker.com and use it to convert
files.
Top conversion issues
The following sections briefly describe the top issues that you may
encounter when converting previous FileMaker Pro databases to
FileMaker Pro
7. For complete details, see Converting FileMaker
Databases from Previous Versions
.
Passwords
During conversion, passwords are converted into accounts in
FileMaker Pro 7. There are two common password conversion
issues:
1 For each converted account, both the account name and the
password in the converted file are initially set to the password from
the original file, which makes all passwords visible to anyone who
has Full Access privileges. For security reasons, you should either
change each account name so that it no longer matches its password,
or change each password so that it no longer matches its account
name. (You could also set an option for each account to require a
password change by the user upon the next login.)
1 Passwords in FileMaker Pro 7 are case-sensitive. Make sure you
enter your password exactly as it was created in a previous version
of FileMaker Pro. For more information, see
“The converted file
won’t accept my password” in the previous section.
Preserving user dictionary information
During conversion, the reference to a user dictionary is handled
differently depending on whether you are using the default user
dictionary or a custom user dictionary.
1 Default user dictionary: When you convert a database file that
uses the default user dictionary (user.upr), the converted file points
to the user.upr file in the new FileMaker Pro 7 folder. Therefore, you
should copy the user.upr file from the previous FileMaker Pro
application folder to the FileMaker Pro 7 folder, or export
information from the user.upr file to the FileMaker Pro 7 user.upr file
before using the converted database.