The Linguist's Shoebox Integrated data management and analysis for the field linguist Year 2000 and risk of data loss in Shoebox 3 and 4 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. If you use date stamps, we recommend that you upgrade to Shoebox 5 . If you are not using date stamps, you are okay. If you are using Shoebox 5, 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.