Oddity when trying to open a PowerPoint file in Keynote
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From: TaliesinSoft on 17 Jan 2010 23:59 Today I tried to open a .PowerPoint (ppt) file with Keynote and received a notification that the file couldn't be opened because it was "encrypted" and that I should de-encrypt it first. I've opened PowerPoint files in Keynote prior to this and never encountered this message. Any idea what's happening and what I do to de-encrypt the PowerPoint file? -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com
From: J.J. O'Shea on 18 Jan 2010 00:35 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:59:28 -0500, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article <0001HW.C77946D00000BBE0B01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): > Today I tried to open a .PowerPoint (ppt) file with Keynote and received a > notification that the file couldn't be opened because it was "encrypted" and > that I should de-encrypt it first. I've opened PowerPoint files in Keynote > prior to this and never encountered this message. Any idea what's happening > and what I do to de-encrypt the PowerPoint file? Someone set a password in the file. You'll have to ask whoever generated the file to resave the file with encryption turned off. -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: TaliesinSoft on 18 Jan 2010 11:30 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:35:23 -0600, J.J. O'Shea wrote (in article <hj0rur02dej(a)news1.newsguy.com>): > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:59:28 -0500, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article > <0001HW.C77946D00000BBE0B01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): > >> Today I tried to open a .PowerPoint (ppt) file with Keynote and received >> a notification that the file couldn't be opened because it was >> "encrypted" and that I should de-encrypt it first. I've opened PowerPoint >> files in Keynote prior to this and never encountered this message. Any >> idea what's happening and what I do to de-encrypt the PowerPoint file? > > Someone set a password in the file. You'll have to ask whoever generated > the file to resave the file with encryption turned off. The encrypted PowerPoint files were on a CD that came with a book. Interestingly the same files opened without a problem on a PC running Windows. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com
From: J.J. O'Shea on 18 Jan 2010 14:11 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:30:28 -0500, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article <0001HW.C779E8C40026B0B9B02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:35:23 -0600, J.J. O'Shea wrote (in article > <hj0rur02dej(a)news1.newsguy.com>): > >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:59:28 -0500, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article >> <0001HW.C77946D00000BBE0B01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): >> >>> Today I tried to open a .PowerPoint (ppt) file with Keynote and received >>> a notification that the file couldn't be opened because it was >>> "encrypted" and that I should de-encrypt it first. I've opened PowerPoint >>> files in Keynote prior to this and never encountered this message. Any >>> idea what's happening and what I do to de-encrypt the PowerPoint file? >> >> Someone set a password in the file. You'll have to ask whoever generated >> the file to resave the file with encryption turned off. > > > The encrypted PowerPoint files were on a CD that came with a book. That doesn't surprise me. > Interestingly the same files opened without a problem on a PC running > Windows. That's... strange. In every case before this where I encountered an encrypted PPT file it demanded the password if opened with PowerPoint (Mac or Windows) or with Keynote or, indeed, with anything else which could read a PPT file. Looks as though there's something in that file which looks to Keynote as though the file is encrypted, but doesn't flip the same flag in PowerPoint. Which version of PowerPoint? 2003 or 2007? -- email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
From: TaliesinSoft on 18 Jan 2010 14:16 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:11:59 -0600, J.J. O'Shea wrote (in article <hj2bpv1k4o(a)news1.newsguy.com>): > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:30:28 -0500, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article > <0001HW.C779E8C40026B0B9B02A89BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): > >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:35:23 -0600, J.J. O'Shea wrote (in article >> <hj0rur02dej(a)news1.newsguy.com>): >> >>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:59:28 -0500, TaliesinSoft wrote (in article >>> <0001HW.C77946D00000BBE0B01029BF(a)News.Individual.NET>): >>> >>>> Today I tried to open a .PowerPoint (ppt) file with Keynote and >>>> received a notification that the file couldn't be opened because it was >>>> "encrypted" and that I should de-encrypt it first. I've opened >>>> PowerPoint files in Keynote prior to this and never encountered this >>>> message. Any idea what's happening and what I do to de-encrypt the >>>> PowerPoint file? >>> >>> Someone set a password in the file. You'll have to ask whoever generated >>> the file to resave the file with encryption turned off. >> >> >> The encrypted PowerPoint files were on a CD that came with a book. > > That doesn't surprise me. > >> Interestingly the same files opened without a problem on a PC running >> Windows. > > That's... strange. In every case before this where I encountered an > encrypted PPT file it demanded the password if opened with PowerPoint (Mac > or Windows) or with Keynote or, indeed, with anything else which could > read a PPT file. Looks as though there's something in that file which > looks to Keynote as though the file is encrypted, but doesn't flip the > same flag in PowerPoint. Which version of PowerPoint? 2003 or 2007? > Unfortunately I don't know which version of PowerPoint successfully opened the file. The PC used wasn't mine. Methinks I'll let this one go into the pile of never answered (and never cared much about) questions. But many thanks for your responses! -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com
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