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Extensis Portfolio 5

mikejmcfarlane

mikejmcfarlane

New member
A friend of mine is working on a community photography project and has been given a database of historic images in Extensis Portfolio 5 format. Quite old!
He reached out to Extensis for help and they said it’s out of support.
Any suggestions? Anyone with an old copy they might sell,
 
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MartinN

Well-known member
’Out of support’ statements are so devastating. I experinced that with a Leaf Aptus 22 and the company Phase One. To be covered, I save all old laptops and their software, and never upgrade OS X. In my opinion, Extensis should show goodwill and help with their old contraption.
 
mikejmcfarlane

mikejmcfarlane

New member
Agreed, I hoped they would help him. It’s strikes me as a little odd that companies who make database and asset management software can get away with deliberately end of lifeing the data/assets, rather than having some responsibility towards long term storage/recoverability. But upgrade is their business model so I guess it’s our problem, and have to do things like you do hanging onto things forever and hope they work when we need them.
 
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