Hi Corey- I have added thousands of records since I quit using DBASE. It's a
little too late to change now.-But thanks for the suggestion-Mickey

-----Original Message-----
From: Corey Bailey
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] DBASE VS OpenOffice and Libre Office

Hi Mickey,

You might want to try Filemaker Pro: https://www.claris.com/filemaker/

It ain't free (or cheap) but it will do the job & may import your DBASE
files.

Happy 2021,

CB

Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
www.baileyzone.net

On 12/29/2020 10:20 AM, Mickey Clark wrote:
> Hello-I used to use DBASE to catalog my collection. When I moved away from
> Windows XP, the DBASE program would no longer work and I started using
> LibreOffice . The drawback of these newer programs is that they do not
> maintain the native order of the file with separate index files, rather
> every field sorted becomes the order of the file.
>
> I had a fire at my shop in which about 2/3 of my collection was lost. As I
> replace copies of the records that were lost, I add "NC" which is
> shorthand for new copy so that I am aware of the updated record.
>
> I still refer to my original DBASE file to see if I had a particular
> record before the fire. These newer programs discard this valuable
> information which has a negative effect on the catalog-Mickey Clark
>
> Mickey Clark
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> Penticton BC
> Canada
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