Known Milestones file signatures and File Extensions
Signatures (in order of software release).
- MILES: Milestones, Etc. 1.0 (.MLS)
- MV2C : Milestones, Etc. 2.1 (.MLS)
- MV214: Milestones, Etc. 2.1 (.MLS)
- MV30 : Milestones, Etc. 3.0 (.ML3)
- MV30A: Milestones, Etc. 3.1 (.ML3)
- MV30B: Milestones, Etc. 3.1 (.ML3)
- MV30C: Milestones, Etc. 3.1 (.ML3)
- MV31A: Milestones, Etc. 3.1 (.ML3)
- MV400: Milestones, Etc. 4.0, 4.5 (.ML4), Milestones Simplicity 1.0 (.MLS)
- MV500: Milestones, Etc. 5.0, 5.01 (.ML5), Milestones Simplicity 2.0 (.MLS)
- MV600: Milestones Professional 2000 (.ML6), Milestones Simplicity 2000 (.MLS)
- MV700: Milestones Professional 2002 (.ML7), Milestones Simplicity 2002 (.MLS)
- MV701: Milestones Professional 2002 (.ML7), Milestones Simplicity 2002 (.MLS), Milestones Project Companion 2002 (.MLP)
- MV800: Milestones Professional 2004 (.ML8), Milestones Simplicity 2004 (.MLS), Milestones Project Companion 2004 (.MLP)
- MV900: Milestones Professional 2004U (.ML9)
- MVA00: Milestones Professional 2006 (.MLA), Milestones Simplicity 2006 (.MLS), Milestones Project Companion 2006 (.MLP)
- MVB00: Milestones Professional 2008 (.MLB), Milestones Simplicity 2008 (.MLS), Milestones Project Companion 2008 (.MLP)
- MVC00: Milestones Professional 2010 (.MLD), Milestones Simplicity 2010 (.MLS)
- MVE00: Milestones Professional 2012 (.MLE), Milestones Simplicity 2012 (.MLS)
- MVF00: Milestones Professional 2015 (.MLF), Milestones Simplicity 2015 (.MLS)
- MVG00: Milestones Professional 2017 (.MLG), Milestones Simplicity 2017 (.MLS)
- MVH00: Milestones Professional 2019 (.MLH), Milestones Simplicity 2019 (.MLS)
- MVJ00: Milestones Professional 2021 (.MLJ)
- MVP00: Milestones Professional 2023 (.MLP)
More Information: Later versions of Milestones software can read all prior version files. However, if a feature in a file is not supported by a particular application, then that feature would be skipped. For example, Milestones Simplicity 2019 can read all current and prior version Milestones 2019 files, but features in a Milestones Professional file, such as a DataGraph, would be ignored by Milestones Simplicity, since Milestones Simplicity does not support the DataGraph feature.
It is the file signature (the first 5 characters of the file) that determines which Milestones read function is used, regardless of the file name extension used.