It’s not large (130Mb) but it contains thousands of records which are vital to my business. It’s open at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. I have a Filemaker database which is my bread and butter. After a new HD was installed I could restore all my data from the backup. Having recently suffered a hard disk failure on my iMac, I’m grateful for the TimeMachine functionality. Note that there is a 30-day trial available from the Filemaker website.As a recent member of this forum I’d like to ask you a few questions. There is no description of the internal Filemaker format anywhere, and you won't be able to read it with any other programs. However, you absolutely do need a valid copy of Filemaker 10 (or higher) to access your data. That said, there isn't much to reverse engineer here, apart from renaming a file for the first scenario. You might need to export your scripts separately, although they will be of no use to you as they only work in FM.

Then you can use standard SQL to query everything you'd need. However, I think the best option is to use the ODBC or JDBC interface to query your data.This library seems to support these kinds of queries. Use Custom Web Publishing with XML to answer interactive queries in XML.Importing the XML somewhere does not seem very straightforward, but all the information should be there.

Bulk export (parts) of your data to XML or other formats.Oracle database), then are multiple ways to get at your data: If you want to export your FM data into another database (e.g. USR file is called the 'bound' (as in binding together) file of the runtime solution (created using Filemaker Pro Advanced). See also the developers guide for the layout of the bound files (page 14). fp7 and open it with Filemaker (you might need Filemaker Pro Advanced). If you just want to open the database of a FM runtime solution, thats easy: Not quite sure what you are looking for, so here goes:

Fmp12 file format