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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 12:17 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Convert .nfo files Reply with quote
Back in the mid nineties I bought my sister a set of 1881British Census CDs.

The are in Infobase Folio file format (.nfo).

She's started using them again to get back into doing the family tree.

Now that pcs have larger hard drives I'd like to extract the data from them (20+CDs) and make single Access database for her so that she's not constantly swapping CDs in and out.

Unfortunately the Folio Viewer program that comes with thae package has no export facility and I'm struggling to find a copy online in the usual places.

Can anyone help with either a .nfo file converter (note this isn't the .nfo files you get with torrents etc.), a link to the viewer or the file format so I could write a program to extract the data.

Thanks

Mark
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PostPosted: 13:01 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
I dunno if you have found it already but it looks like you need this...

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-folionxt

There is a demo but I imagine it won't do what you need you might be able to find a crack.
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PostPosted: 13:25 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sample file, screenshot of same on reader?
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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 13:34 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chris-red wrote:
I dunno if you have found it already but it looks like you need this...

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-folionxt

There is a demo but I imagine it won't do what you need you might be able to find a crack.


This a an old v2 format file. I'm pretty sure that the new version won't handle it.
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Sample file, screenshot of same on reader?


More research shows that the file is highly compressed so I'm not going to be able to do a simple program to extract any data from it.

Grr. Reader is 16 bit so I can't run it on my pc at the mo until I install 32 bit Windows in a VM.
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chris-red
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PostPosted: 13:56 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
panrider_uk wrote:
chris-red wrote:
I dunno if you have found it already but it looks like you need this...

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-folionxt

There is a demo but I imagine it won't do what you need you might be able to find a crack.


This a an old v2 format file. I'm pretty sure that the new version won't handle it.


Worth trying the demo though, nothing to lose!
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't you copy all of the data off of the CDs into a single folder and modify the Viewer program to point to that directory?
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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 17:36 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Spikenipple wrote:
Can't you copy all of the data off of the CDs into a single folder and modify the Viewer program to point to that directory?


That's the next thing to try.

Need a 32bit Windows VM first before I can do anything on my pc for testing though
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PostPosted: 17:39 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chris-red wrote:

Worth trying the demo though, nothing to lose!


This is true
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PostPosted: 18:54 - 29 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
panrider_uk wrote:
Need a 32bit Windows VM first before I can do anything on my pc for testing though

I have a few old laptops drives with XP, Win 7 32bit installations for this kinda thing. Less faffing about.
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