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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] GenBridge for FTM 7.5?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:19:41 -0400
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John Carney wrote:

> I'd like to purchase TMG and upgrade from my current program (FTM v7.5),
> however, I noticed that GenBridge is only certified to convert data from
> FTM up to v6.0. I don't believe that the data model for FTM changed all
> that much between v6 and v7.5. But I don't know for sure. Does anyone
> have any insight as to the feasibility of this conversion? Has anyone
> already tried it? Might I be better off waiting for v5 of TMG? Any
> thoughts and opinions welcome.

Unless you have made use of new features in FTM since FTM 6.0, my suggestion
is to use FTM 7.5's ability to save in v6.0 format, and import into TMG from
there. This is based on my experience a couple of versions of FTM back, when
waiting on the availability of an updated Genbridge module proved
frustrating and probably not very rewarding in the end. There have bee
comments on this List before about using this approach, and I recall them
being positive, but perhaps someone who has done it can comment
specifically.

I do not recall seeing a announcement that a FTM 7.5 module will be released
with TMG 5.0, so only someone with WG can say if it will. (And I'd doubt
they will this early, but who knows<g>).

Terry Reigel

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