Captivate Project File Backward Compatibility

I tried searching online, as well as in the forums, but I wasn’t able to find a similar scenario where Captivate 6 can open/work with/convert old Captivate 1 .cp project files.
We have an old version of Captivate (Macromedia version 1.01.1418.1418) and we already have created a number of .cp files.
System specs where Captivate 1 is installed:
Windows XP Professional 2002 (32-bit), SP3,Intel Core 2 Duo, P8400 @2.26GHz, 1.98Gb RAM
System specs where Captivate 6 (Trial Version) is installed:
Windows 7 Enterprise 2009 (64-bit), SP1, Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400 @3.00GHz, 2.00Gb RAM
We tried to open it with the trial version of Captivate 6 but the file won’t open. Files opened were already saved locally. The following notification appears:
We already checked that no other application is accessing the said file while it is being opened in Captivate 6.
Is there a way to convert the file so that it can be opened in Captivate 6?
We already have a purchase of new licenses for Captivate 6 in the works. We just want to confirm this early if there’s a way to handle the projects we created using Captivate 1. This way we could adjust resources if we need to work on the .cp projects we made using Captivate 1 and start from scratch using Captivate 6.
My apologies if this inquiry has already been addressed somewhere in the forum, however, I really need to find out the solution at the soonest possible time.

I suppose the only way would be to try to find some versions between CP1 and CP6 and try to upgrade in steps. There has been so many changes since that version, and it is clearly told that you cannot upgrade that far backwards. Not even sure if you could upgrade without issues from CP1 to CP4. CP5 was a totally different version, so you should at least have to upgrade first to CP4. Even then there could be a lot of problems going from 4 to 5 and later, because AS2 is no longer supported.
However there is no problem to have both versions installed on the same system. I have CP4, 5, 5.5 and 6 installed on my laptop and they are living happily together
Lilybiri

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