The data import thing is not a big deal in my book. I'll just start from scratch. I might add some past data for a few clients, but I've not really found old service history to be of high importance. Plus, I'll have PTBiz for some time to glance back at historical data if I ever want to. Terry Farrell On Oct 4, 2010, at 8:16 PM, William Truitt wrote: > Thanks, Mark: > > I appreciate your input, but I have never used PTBiz. My remark was > directed to Terry, who will have to wrestle with that issue unless > he wants > to hand input all 1,000,000 of his files. Does Daylight or > Filemaker Pro > read the format of PTBiz? I've used Lotus Approach for about 15 > years, the > latest version I have is Approach 97, which may give you an idea how > long in > the tooth it is. It's slowly becoming an orphan. I custom built my > multiple databases long ago in Approach, which is relational and > easily > customizable. The file format is Dbase IV. I understand that both > Filemaker Pro and MS Access can import that format. Of course, that > still > means I have to build my databases in which to import those files. > I don't > think that will be particularly difficult in either Filemaker or > Access, but > it will be time consuming because, as you point out, there is a lot of > detail to pay attention to so that they can talk to each other. And > I will > make some changes in my structure as well, as I will want to add > some things > and drop others. > > Our problem is that we are living too long. We're outliving our > computers, > and our operating systems. Most importantly, we're outliving our > database > software. > > Will
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