upgrade filemaker pro database from previous version

My Contacts database kept crashing after being converted to Pro 12, usually when I pasted text into a text field or sometimes when I clicked in the text field. I installed the program, and converted all of my databases to Pro 12. I upgraded from Filemaker Pro 9, because of the time limit on upgrading from 9 to 12. So it's a great product but not a great deal for existing Filemaker users to upgrade. Overall, not a bad evolution -and thankfully, pretty stable (maybe because not much has changed) however it's a lot to pay Filemaker to call it a full version upgrade. Interoperability with Bento and Bento templates is still not addressed and looks like it never will be.

Moving data between an iOS instance and a Mac instance is fine but synchronizing of data between iOS and the Mac version is still not implemented. These new versions are 'free', as opposed to the $40 each for the previous iOS apps. Of course it means paying a significant amount for the upgrade from v11 to v12 and it also means getting new versions of the iOS Go apps to run, respectively on the iPhone and another version for the iPad. Most of the new stuff allows easier development of Filemaker solutions for iOS/mobile use with templates that already take into account screen sizes, etc for the iPhone and iPad. Filemaker 12 does not have a lot of critically new or ground-breaking features from Filemaker 11.

Upgrade filemaker pro database from previous version