#Fmpro migrator Pc#
Disappointment #1.Īfter running FMPro Migrator on my 48 open FileMaker 6 files which created all sorts of CGI scripts, I copied the CGIs to my PC and then downloaded Perl on my XP machine and installed it – I was directed to a free download.
I hadn’t read the Migrator sales materials on the website very closely and didn’t realize that I still needed to run the second half of the migration process on a PC or Virtual PC because Migrator uses ODBC and the ODBC plug-ins for FM 7 don’t work on the Mac yet. com had an OS X version and FMrobot only runs on Windows at this point – an OS X version is in the works. FSA Associates and Partners get Developer as part of the FSA membership – $595 a year. Most serious developers and corporate FileMaker installations already have a copy of Developer which is $499 vs. Besides the extra $100 for FMrobot, you’ll also need FileMaker Developer 6 or 7. The serious developer and anyone else who has a big need for migration (read lots of files and/or files with lots of fields), will pay the extra money for FMrobot. Bottomline, FMrobot offers at least twice the value of Migrator’s FM7-related capabilities. It focuses only on migration to FileMaker 7 and associated functions.įMrobot, at $199, is twice the price of FMPro Migrator. FMrobot, on the other hand, is by comparison a one-trick pony.
Keep in mind as we go through this comparison that FMPro Migrator does many other kinds of migrations (to MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase), so its ability to consolidate multiple FileMaker files into a single FM7 file is just one of its many features. updated FMPro Migrator to include the ability to convert multiple FileMaker 3, 4, 5 or 6 files to multiple *tables* within a single FileMaker 7 file. Just days after FMrobot came out (see my last post).
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