Using FileMaker 5.5 for my customer records. I know, I know.
Yesterday it would not open so I did the recovery and it opened, although when I went to enter information on a customer record it said "resort" on the customer record. I thought that was odd but nevertheless I was able to create a new entry on a client record. Then I went back in to the record and the new entry that I typed was not there. ? Now today, FileMaker will not open at all! Dead in the water here with my business. I have 7,000 customers in this FileMaker 5.5. Suggestions?
Sounds like corruption. I'd make a copy, run a recovery option, and then try and export the data to a non filemaker format like .csv. I'd spot check the data using numbers or excel to see if anything is obviously cutoff corrupted (for instance, a certain row all of the data shifts one column over.
From there, I'd get a modern copy of filemaker, rebuild the database, and import the data. Then create a backup of that as a clean copy restoration point, and move forward using modern filemaker.
Converting a corrupted file through two file format changes is probably not going to fix it.