Re: Macintosh and Family Tree Maker?

Hugh Watkins wrote:
> Steve W. Jackson wrote:
>> In article <2008040914283016807-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  tom klein <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> is there any macintosh software that will read or convert FTM files?  
>>> i know they've discontinued Family Tree Maker for the mac, but i need 
>>> to open an FTM file.
>>>
>>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com
**
>>
>> If you can't get the provider to ex****t it into a GEDCOM format for 
>> you, there are some other possible options.
>>
>> If you're planning to continue maintaining this data and have a recent 
>> Intel-based Mac, you *could* sully it with Boot Camp or one of the 
>> various virtualization programs and run Windows and FTM on it.
>>
>> Or you might see if SKS who has FTM would volunteer to open it for you 
>> and ex****t it to GEDCOM or some other form you can handle.
> 
> I run FTM 16 and FTM 2008 on WinXP sp2 on parallels 3 on Mac OS 10.4.11
> 
> on an intel macBook Pro
> (Bootcamp may be best avoided unless yoiu have a very specific need)
> 
> Hugh W

Virtual box http://www.virtualbox.org
would be an alternative to 
Parallels - and free.  Although it remains to be seen what the effect of 
the Sun takeover will be.  The download site has been removed to Sun due 
to "US ex****t regulations" which sounds a bit ominous.

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