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From: erilar on 11 Jun 2010 10:00 Having asked for and received advice about the problems resulting from the rather violent computer upgrade needed to adopt an iPad, I thought I ought to not only again thank everyone, but offer a progress report 8-) I have reconstituted about 3/4 of the almost-totally-disable address book entry line by entry line. I can't open the backup on the backup HD because the laptop wants to try and refuses me. It seems that I can't open it inside the backup HD. I realized there is a workaround for the network disconnect between old and new computer for the time when I collect a pile of data worth the physical effort of moving enough things off my desk to pull the old CPU out to reconnect the backup HD to it, back up whatever, disconnect it and push it back, replace everything on the desk, and connect the backup HD to the laptop again. Project for next winter, when I eventually get around to feeding the data from old media I find I want to save into the old computer. I've been trying Bean as WP. It's a nice little program, but to access anything old, I have to convert the latter to .rtf so Bean can find it. Fortunately, my graphics program is still behaving itself, at least until the day when I'm forced to upgrade again. BUT now that I have this lovely iPad I keep playing with when I should be doing something else, I'd like to be able to keep a few documents there, too, and the price is going to be iWork '09 because that's what the Pages app for iPad needs. And it is back-compatible with AW 6, which in turn can open even the later versions of ClarisWorks. When I have more time I'm going to try the 30-day free trial and will most probably succumb in the end. One way and another, my iPad has become quite expensive, but I do love it 8-) -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: Jolly Roger on 11 Jun 2010 12:58 In article <drache-BF88E9.09004811062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa mple.com>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > I've been trying Bean as WP. It's a nice little program, but to access > anything old, I have to convert the latter to .rtf so Bean can find it. Glad to see you took my advice to check it out. I think it's one of the more user friendly word processing applications available for Mac OS today! -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
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