Sharing Access 2000 databases with Filemaker Pro

[tgharris]

A colleague of mine, &quot;Debbie&quot; at work is trying to email a copy of a large database to &quot;Brian.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Both Debbie and I use Access 2K on Wintel machines, Brian uses Filemaker Pro on an IMac.<br><br>Debbie has sent the database as comma-delimited ASCII that Brian can read (sort of), but cannot sucessfully upload into Filemaker Pro.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anybody have any ideas?<br><br>Thanks in advance, <br>Tony <br><br> <p>Tony Harris<br><a href=mailto:tgharris@techie.com>tgharris@techie.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[kendevanney]

what version of filemaker pro is being used.<br><br>the latest version has the odbc drivers included with it.<br><br>I am about to try and do a similar thing with an acess 97 and 2000 database. I will post my findings when I am done.<br><br>good luck

 

[mactrainer]

Try saving the file in SYLK format.

 

[tgharris]

If it helps, Brian is using Filemaker Pro 4.1v1.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don't know if it has the ODBC drivers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>I gave him a Windows-to-Mac text translation utility.&nbsp;&nbsp;No feedback on that yet. <p>Tony Harris<br><a href=mailto:tgharris@techie.com>tgharris@techie.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[JDurbin]

I read csv files from pc's all the time on my mac using filemkaer pro.&nbsp;&nbsp; <p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>ICQ VFP ActiveList #73897253

 

[ericg]

The problem may come from having commas in the data fields, which may be fooling the import into thinking that there are extra fields.

 

[Guest_imported]

Can 2000 export as dbf ...Filemaker handles these well