Act 2K to Act 2011 problems

[JetS165101]

I've been using Act 2K, basically, since it was released.  I had it installed on an XP, SP3 machine who's OS lunched on me.  I reinstalled XP and updated it.  And installed a copy of Act 2011 that I had been using on an laptop I decommissioned.  But I can't import or convert the Act 2K DB, which I had backed up on an external drive.

I can't export the older DB to CSV without reinstalling Act 2K, which I suspect will not be happy on the machine which now has the newer Act version installed.

How can I achieve this conversion?

[Hammatime]

ACT! 2000 can be installed at the same time as ACT! 2011.  So, you can then run compress/reindex and scan and repair on your old db before you convert it to ACT! 2011.

[SecretSquirrel]

Hi,

Check the integrity of the data first and then do the conversion:

http://kb.sagesoftwareonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26761

Common rule is that if you have problems with conversion from 2000, install a demo of 2003 (v6) and use this as an intrim. Meaning you go '2000 -> 2003 -> 2011'.

Kind regards,

SS

[JetS165101]

I got it to work, thanks.

Problem was tryinjg to use the "restore" funtion with the Zip file, like the old way.

Conversion worked once I tried it with the dbf file.