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From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 20:07 In article <vilain-6382B9.14032306062010(a)news.individual.net>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote: > My SWAG for this person is that they have way to many alias files in > their "Recent Items" folder. It's buried in the "Appleworks User Data" > folder under "Starting Points". Delete all those aliases to previously > edited documents and you'll probably run a lot faster. I do that regularly 8-) -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 20:09 In article <wcyeo-203ACA.11455206062010(a)news.giganews.com>, William Yeo <wcyeo(a)invalid.org> wrote: > Hail > > In article > <drache-6DF960.09532006062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa > > OpenOffice and TextEdit both destroy my documents because they reject > > the fonts, apparently. I get garbage with both. > > Have you tries NeoOffice (a Mac offshoot of OpenOffice) ? > > I converted all mu AW stuff to it long ago. I think I used AW to convert > the documents to Word or Excel and then opened them in NeoOffice to > check them and the re-save in odt/ods. > > I think there's also a free version of Lotus Symphony for the Mac > available somewhere (don't have the URL any more). It can read > Word/Excel file also IIRC. > > Good luck. Note taken. I'm too tried to try something that may frustrate me today. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 6 Jun 2010 20:11 In article <yoby6erhq1i.fsf(a)panix1.panix.com>, BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote: > I suspect that my only option for getting those old files open > is to open them in AW6 and then resave, either as RTF or as AW6 > docs, which can then be opened in Pages. I've been having the same thought 8-( > > I really hate that formats go so stale. It's one of the things > I loved about the ancient word processors where we'd have plain > text documents with markup codes embedded - no matter what happened, > you'd be able to extract the contents (sans formatting) pretty > trivially. Well, up through AW 6, I've always been able to open even truly ancient ClarisWorks files. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: Mike Rosenberg on 6 Jun 2010 21:42 Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote: > > I do that regularly 8-) > > Then I guess you're screwed. Start looking for a free word processor > that reads ancient versions of ClarisWorks and Appleworks. And be sure > to let us know how it goes. Whoa, not so fast! There's plenty of troubleshooting we haven't tried yet. I've seen AW run well on Macs with the same specs as hers, including my own MacBook, so I know it's possible. I'd try running AppleWorks from a new user account and letting us know how it goes from there. -- Favorite yoga position: Rosh hashavasana, the high holy pose Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: Mike Rosenberg on 6 Jun 2010 22:08
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > Well, up through AW 6, I've always been able to open even truly ancient > ClarisWorks files. Then you haven't tried to open CW 2 or older files from AW 6. The latter won't open those and I've had to use an intermediate version or MacLinkPlus to convert such files for several clients. -- Favorite yoga position: Rosh hashavasana, the high holy pose Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> |