Is there anything I have to be careful before I use the data migration tool?

Thank you. Is it something like /Users/..../DMT.txt in Mac?

To write output and error to txt files your command will look something like this:

FMDataMigration -src_path V1.fmp12 -src_account Admin -clone_path "V2 Clone.fmp12" -clone_account Admin -v -force > output.txt 2> err.txt

Note the > and 2> parts at the end which write stdout and stderr to .txt files instead of the terminal window.

Here's a handy StackOverflow on logging terminal output to files: bash - How to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file - Stack Overflow. It offers another option to write both sterr and stdout to the same file if you prefer, using 2>&1.

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If anyone cares to comment, I would be curious to know if folks are adopting the 19.0.1 version of DMT for use with v.18 files?

My inclination is to use the most recent v.18 DMT (for v.18 files) until some more time has gone by.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

We made use of the v19 DMT this week on a v18 solution without issue.

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Thank you @bdbd. Much appreciated, and great to hear that.

So far I've only tested it lightly, no issues yet.

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