Several bugs have been fixed since the previous Test version 1.5-39 and a few new features added, including better searching of the phonetic data. The main year 2000 compatibility issue in Shoebox concerns date stamps . For many users, this is only a minor issue of readability. However, the date filter does not work correctly for dates after 1999. Windows and Macintosh versions Shoebox 3 has a serious problem with date stamps after the year 2000 that can cause data loss .
Shoebox ignores all data that follows an end of file character.
On the Macintosh, this problem sometimes occurs if the date gets set to 1980 or earlier. It will be fully corrected in Shoebox 5. Therefore, the date filter correctly compares all dates . If you are not using date stamps, you are okay. If you are using date stamps in Shoebox 3 and have opened databases since 31 December 1999, you might have lost some of your data.