FCE 3 Project in FCP 5

That's it. Can my buddy, using FCP 5 open my FCE 3 project? If so, will anything be "lost" in the translation?
Thanks

i forgot to mention that you should make a copy of the fcp3 project first, and upgrade from this copy, ....if there are problems going to fcp5 you can always go back to fcp3 with the original file
my fcp3 projects had been in OS9 and some of the project names had backslashes, i had to remove the backslashes before going to OSx,
you probably know that OSx, a unix system, will not treat files well with backslashes in the name.
elektric

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The latest version of Final Cut Pro is 6.0.5.
Use the software updater to get to that version.
My guess is the 6.0.1 was released before FCE 4.0.1.
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Hi Tom
Thanks for your quick reply, sorry for my slow one. I took the project to a friend with FCP 7, it opened fine, so I then exported it as an XML which enabled me to open it in my FCP 5, although it seems to have lost most of the tape names/numbers.
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