What Is Filemaker Pro 6?
FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform database development system available for Windows and Macintosh operating systems. As of May, 2010, the current version of FileMaker is FileMaker Pro 11. FileMaker Pro 6 was an older version of the software released in September 2002, and updated through November 2003.
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Facts
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FileMaker Pro is marketed to users without database programming experience, as well as database development professionals. The software includes database "templates," which can be used out of the box with no additional modification. FileMaker Pro 6 included 30 such templates, divided into Home, Business and Education categories.
History
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FileMaker was first released as Macintosh-only software in April 1985, in the early days of the Macintosh platform. Apple purchased FileMaker in 1988 and sold it under its Claris brand, which was later changed to FileMaker. FileMaker Pro 2.0 was the first version available for Windows and Macintosh, in October 1992. FileMaker Pro 1.0 was actually the sixth major release of FileMaker, and FileMaker Pro 6 was the twelfth.
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Features
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FileMaker Pro 6 had a minimal change in features from version 5.5, especially compared with the complete revamp to FileMaker introduced later in version 7. New import features were added for multimedia files, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) files, as well as the ability to import an entire folder of files instead of selecting each file individually. The results of found sets in FileMaker Pro 6 can be also modified with additional search terms.
Types
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FileMaker databases historically tend to be compatible for two major version numbers. The database file structure introduced by FileMaker Pro 5 was compatible with FileMaker Pro 5.5 and 6, but was changed with FileMaker Pro 7, whose own database format was maintained until the release of FileMaker 9. FileMaker Pro 6 can open any earlier FileMaker database, but databases created with versions earlier than 5 must be converted first. Likewise, FileMaker Pro 5 can open databases created with FileMaker Pro 6, but cannot use any features, which are new with version 6.
Benefits
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Although FileMaker Pro 6 was an excellent database at the time of its release, there is little reason to use FileMaker Pro 6 unless you need to run a database on archaic hardware, which must run very old versions of Windows or Mac OS.
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