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When I was working I developed some fairly simple relational DBs on Filemaker; once I retired (8 years ago) I wanted to keep access to some of them for personal use. I upgraded to FM 14, didn’t upgrade beyond that since 14 was adequate for my needs. Now have upgraded OS to Mojave on my iMac and 14 won’t run on it.
Fortunately I have not upgraded OS on my Macbook so I still have access to my DBs.FM has become more and more corporate-oriented, too expensive for an individual light-duty user like myself. I’d like to migrate my FM DBs to some other database software. Ideally I’d be able to retain the flexible layout formatting so I can have different views of my data - a spreadsheet won’t cut it, especially since I have some graphics.Any suggestions? Would be nice if the software could have an iOS version as well. As Filemaker is one of its own, I guess there is no similar comfortable database environment with integrated GUI design capabilities.In conjunction with LibreOffice and ODBC or a web browser and some knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP or JavaScript one could have similar functionality with the mentioned relational database management systems (RDBMS) for free.SQLite is not a client–server database engine, but everything is embedded in the end user application like the web browser and a single file contains all data.
私は FileMaker Server を Mac の VMware Fusion 上の High Sierra で運用している。VMware Fusion はスナップショットと呼ばれるゲスト OS のバックアップを気軽に取ることができることだし、ゲスト OS を Mojave にアップグレードすることにした。.
I agree that the latest Filemaker purchasing options are geared for advanced corporate users. It seems that basic database versions are no longer available and you have to buy the 'Advanced' package that includes many unwanted extras.
A non-profit organisation (retiree??) can purchase this for AU$490, which is ridiculous.Having said that, the pain of converting data and especially scripts, to another environment is too much to consider. I have done this twice (Open Access for DOS to Microsoft Access to Filemaker when I changed from Windows to Mac OSX).I actually still run Open Access under DOSBOX on a Mac for some legacy database applications because it has an SQL core and more powerful programming tools than MS Access or Filemaker. Maybe not what you are looking for but Xojo is another alternative for FileMaker. They have a section of their website and training webinars dedicated to Filemaker switchers.Xojo is more of an App Development tool so may be very different and not fit your needs but the licensing is far more reasonable than FileMaker. The pricing says per year but you don’t have to renew and can continue to use Xojo after the license expires (the annual renewal provides updates/upgrades).You can download Xojo for free and try it out! You only pay once you are ready to compile/build your solution.