Open Freehand files with Illustrator CS6

I agree. We have thousands of Freehand files dating back more than ten years. We never know when an old client or project becomes live again - it is EXTEMELY important to be able to open those old files.

Ok, so I´m not alone with this huge problem (We have only thousands of those fh-files in our archive). Only way now is to go back to CS5.5!

It is unbelievable that, all of a sudden, you just can't open old Freehand files in Illustrator anymore.

For me, it is unacceptable!

I have 18 years of Freehand Files that cannot be opened in CS6 as well.  Big part of our business.  We used Freehand because it was better than AI and could do much more from a page layout and vector illustration app. Was very dissapointed when Adobe trashed the application.  AI is much better now with multi page layous, but is still arduously slow in comparision.  PLEASE keep the ability to open the docs Adobe.....

Same here. I have tone of files and most of my clients that have all their sources in Freehand...

Oh Please Please Please Yes - we have 23 years of files in Freehand (many hundreds of thousands) and last year began the painful process of Freehand to Illustrator CS4.  It is so very important to continue to translate files as needed. To be sure, many simple items can be just done in Illustrator but as so many folks have technical material that requires ongoing living document status, "Dear Adobe" do not take away our ability to do our jobs. 

Please restore the ability to open Freehand files in CS6. We beg you.

I was recently delighted to find that CS6 could easily open my old (15 years) Corel Draw files.

If it can do that, why can't it open Freehand files?