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MegaFiler Documents

l008com

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MegaFiler was a database app I used on a Mac Plus back around 1992 - 1994. I have a few documents I recovered off some floppy disks but I have no way to open them. I have been able to find a copy of MegaFiler online but it crashes when you try to run it on MacOS. The oldest OS I have access to is system 7, it may be that this program is too old for that. I think I was using it on system 5 or something? 

Anyway, it would be great if there were some way to convert these database files to a spreadsheet or to something like a filemaker database. 

I have tried opening them with the oldest version of clarisworks I can find (v1) but no luck. 

It's very hard to even find mention of this program on the internet, that's how old it is. It appears to have been made by a company called Megahaus. Mentions are so rare, that this very post will likely very quickly become the number one search result for people looking for MegaFiler. 

 

l008com

Well-known member
Some mistaken updates but here's an accurate update:
OS 9 wouldn't run the .sea to open the app but older versions did. So I have what looks like the megafiler app on system 7.5, the oldest OS I have. But when I go to open it, it asks me to insert the original MegaFiler disk. I of course have no such disk so I assume that means my copy of the program is incomplete. I can view the greyed out menus and it looks like the program. But I don't seem to be able to get past the disk request. 

 
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