[Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

[Gary Shugart]

Hi All:  Crowd sourcing?  Maybe put it in Dropbox or google cloud share (via gmail) an let folks that have Macs have a look at it if not too large.  If it a run time application it might run on older Macs (like I have here).  I now use FileMaker on the Mac.  As far as getting data out, there is probably an export or convert utility somewhere in the program.
I wrote a program in 4D (4th Dimension) for the Mac back in 1992 and one component was called Accession.  The other was Catalog.  But as far as I know it didn't go beyond a few museums out here.   

Gary Shugart Collections ManagerSlater Museum of Natural History University of Puget Sound 1500 N WarnerTacoma, WA 98416-1088253 879-3356 (museum)gshugart at pugetsound.edu 

From: annm at austin.utexas.edu
To: gnelson at bio.fsu.edu; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:58:38 +0000
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion






Cindy,
As far as I know there is no MS Access on a Mac-yet-unless you are running the Mac as a PC. If you notice the MS Office suite for the Mac contains no Access as one of the programs included in the bundle, unlike the PC version. There is an Access - like
 program within OpenOffice which I have heard had poor import/export tools. I do not know that program but it could account for  your colleague's problem. OpenOffice went away in 2011 but I believe there are successors. If you are certain it is MS Access the
 file endings may be .mdb or .aaccdb- depending on the version of Access you have been using or updated to since 1990's.
Best of luck
Ann





From: "gnelson at bio.fsu.edu" <gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>

Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 3:14 AM

To: "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>

Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion






Hi, Cindy



Wondering the same thing, myself. Could be a custom Access db renamed to Accession. Check the file extension. If Access, it'll be mdb.



Gil



On 1/1/2014 1:25 AM, Steve Halford wrote:



Are you sure you're not dealing with Microsoft Access?   I lost a lot of information when Access "upgraded" without being backwards compatible




Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca)

Museum Technician (Retired)            

Department of Biological Sciences

Simon Fraser University









On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Opitz, Cindy 
<cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu> wrote:




Happy New Year!
Does anyone have experience with software called “Accession”? A collection on campus databased objects on an iMac in the 1990s using “Accession” software and now has no access to the information. I’m not familiar with the program. The collection
 manager currently uses Past Perfect for a different collection and would like help figuring out how to retrieve the data from Accession for use in Past Perfect. Any ideas?
 
Cindy Opitz
Collections Manager
Museum of Natural History
11 Macbride Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242
319-335-0481
www.uiowa.edu/mnh

 
 
 




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