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Re: Can't edit a .docx (word 97) document without TextEdit stripping by "Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
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Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:36 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Pete Nalda wrote:
> So would word for Mac do it?
Any recent version of Word should be able to open Word documents even from two decades ago.
By the way, a ".docx" document is a fairly recent format that came about a decade after Word 97 was released. ".docx" wasn't introduced until Word 2007. If it is a Word 97 document file it should be a ".doc" file.
http://en.wikipedia
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
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Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:14 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Michael Stupinski" mstupinski
That brings up an interesting point. Does anyone know (for sure) of trusted site(s) through which volunteers can help retouch storm-damaged photos?
...........Mike
On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:51 PM, HAL9000 <jrswebhome@yahoo.com > wrote:
> I saw an appeal for retouching Sandy pictures on a TRUSTED Professional Photoshop site and volunteered information about myself including my cell phone number. Thank God no credit info was requested. This afternoon I learned it is probably a fake site.
>
> http://www.careforsandy.org/restoration-specialists
>
> Apparently another group has determined it is a FAKE WEB SITE looking for personal info.
>
> http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=69044
>
> FYI.
>
...........Mike
On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:51 PM, HAL9000 <jrswebhome@yahoo.
> I saw an appeal for retouching Sandy pictures on a TRUSTED Professional Photoshop site and volunteered information about myself including my cell phone number. Thank God no credit info was requested. This afternoon I learned it is probably a fake site.
>
> http://www.carefors
>
> Apparently another group has determined it is a FAKE WEB SITE looking for personal info.
>
> http://db.aa419.
>
> FYI.
>
Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:09 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Vixpix" nyskater
I know the professional organizations were organizing this. Let me check which ones, and I will get back to you.
Vickie
Sent from a spoiled little iPad
On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Michael Stupinski <stupnski@tiac.net > wrote:
> That brings up an interesting point. Does anyone know (for sure) of trusted site(s) through which volunteers can help retouch storm-damaged photos?
>
> ...........Mike
Vickie
Sent from a spoiled little iPad
On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Michael Stupinski <stupnski@tiac.
> That brings up an interesting point. Does anyone know (for sure) of trusted site(s) through which volunteers can help retouch storm-damaged photos?
>
> ...........Mike
Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:43 am (PST) . Posted by:
"ennisart" ennisart
Yes. The printer is a printer/scanner/fax device and appears there and works as a printer, but does not show up as a scanner in Image Capture or Epson Scan. Epson Scan says "the scanner you selected is different from the one connected."
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , John Engberg <mrbyte@...> wrote:
>
> Have you tried to add the scanner in the Printer & Scanner Preference pane in System Preferences. I think that is an option in 10.6 (I'm running 10.8.2), but I can't remember.
>
> John Engberg
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:46 PM, ennisart <john@...> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to scan wirelessly from an iMac OS10.6. Using the Epson Scan Settings, I have added the printer's IP address, but the printer doesn't appear as a choice in Select Scanner.
> >
> > I have another iMac OS10.6 on the same wireless network and all this works fine there.
> >
> > Hope this is not off topic.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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> Have you tried to add the scanner in the Printer & Scanner Preference pane in System Preferences. I think that is an option in 10.6 (I'm running 10.8.2), but I can't remember.
>
> John Engberg
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:46 PM, ennisart <john@...> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to scan wirelessly from an iMac OS10.6. Using the Epson Scan Settings, I have added the printer's IP address, but the printer doesn't appear as a choice in Select Scanner.
> >
> > I have another iMac OS10.6 on the same wireless network and all this works fine there.
> >
> > Hope this is not off topic.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > John
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Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:39 am (PST) . Posted by:
"T Hopkins" todhop
There is still old software in use that a floppy disc because that was the only removable media at the time the software was written. Since no other record media is an option, it may not have occurred to people who use this software to find some way to backup to some other medium, or they may simply not know how. Some of these applications write to floppies in non-standard formats that can't be understood by the major, modern OS's. They were meant to transfer data from PCs to specialized machines that used a custom OS.
I can assure you that the fragility of floppies is not common knowledge. Most people who lived in the time of floppies still think of them as a "backup" format It took me months to stop my small company from saving primary documents on floppies, which was the practice when I came in. They could not understand why I insisted, even after experiencing such failures.
"There are more things in heaven and earth..."
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. If you have any valuable data stored on
> technology that you know to be obsolescent or obsolete, you *must* copy it
> to something current as soon as you can.
>
> If the floppies were readable last year, why were they not copied then (or
> 5/10/15 years ago)?
>
> In any case, floppies were never meant as an archive format. They were
> cheap flimsy things with a limited life.
>
> (Apologies if I've missed something here.)
>
> Otto
>
> On 28 November 2012 19:01, N.A. Nada <whodo678@comcast.net > wrote:
>
> > Fred,
> >
> > What several of us are trying to tell you is that what you are asking is
> > very much like asking to play a 4- or 8-track tape on a DVD player. If the
> > rubber rollers have not melted to the tape, the magnetic tape might have
> > degauzed.
> >
> > Whether the recovery program works with your new hardware has very little
> > or nothing to do if it will read the floppies. As Tod said, "Floppy failure
> > is generally at the "hardware" level.", meaning the information is lost on
> > the floppy. The only media with a worse failure rate than floppies were Zip
> > discs.
> >
> > You even say that floppies that worked last year won't work now. The
> > hardware, the floppies are failing.
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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I can assure you that the fragility of floppies is not common knowledge. Most people who lived in the time of floppies still think of them as a "backup" format It took me months to stop my small company from saving primary documents on floppies, which was the practice when I came in. They could not understand why I insisted, even after experiencing such failures.
"There are more things in heaven and earth..."
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-
On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. If you have any valuable data stored on
> technology that you know to be obsolescent or obsolete, you *must* copy it
> to something current as soon as you can.
>
> If the floppies were readable last year, why were they not copied then (or
> 5/10/15 years ago)?
>
> In any case, floppies were never meant as an archive format. They were
> cheap flimsy things with a limited life.
>
> (Apologies if I've missed something here.)
>
> Otto
>
> On 28 November 2012 19:01, N.A. Nada <whodo678@comcast.
>
> > Fred,
> >
> > What several of us are trying to tell you is that what you are asking is
> > very much like asking to play a 4- or 8-track tape on a DVD player. If the
> > rubber rollers have not melted to the tape, the magnetic tape might have
> > degauzed.
> >
> > Whether the recovery program works with your new hardware has very little
> > or nothing to do if it will read the floppies. As Tod said, "Floppy failure
> > is generally at the "hardware" level.", meaning the information is lost on
> > the floppy. The only media with a worse failure rate than floppies were Zip
> > discs.
> >
> > You even say that floppies that worked last year won't work now. The
> > hardware, the floppies are failing.
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:40 am (PST) . Posted by:
"T Hopkins" todhop
Update. The Google Accounts listing keeps disappearing and reappearing even if I make no changes to the Delegates listing.
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:43 AM, T Hopkins wrote:
> Yep. Yesterday I deselected visibility for all the "Delegate" versions, leaving the "Google Accounts" versions selected. This was fine for the day. This morning, upon opening the laptop (Calendar still running), the Google Accounts calendar listings are all gone. Except the main one which is NOT linked as a delegate since it's never needed to be.
>
> I think that the delegate function is still necessary. The bug is the duplicate appearance as a Google Account. Next time I'll try deselecting the view of the Google Accounts and see if that sticks. Haven't done that yet because I was hoping it would work the other way around. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> tod
>
> Tod Hopkins
> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
>
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Gijzette Strickland wrote:
>
> > Mine is doing the same thing, just started recently. I am also using Snow
> > Leopard.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Gijzette Strickland - Elfin Bears˙ -
> > OOAK Miniature Bears and Friends
> > http://www.elfinbears.com
> > http://twitter.com/ElfinBears
> > "It is astonishing how many thoroughly mature, well-adjusted grown-ups
> > harbor a teddy bear - which is perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and
> > well-adjusted." ~~Joseph Lempa.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:22 PM, T Hopkins <hoplist@hillmanncarr.com > wrote:
> >
> >> I have a new problem with my Google calendars appearing twice in iCal.
> >> The calendars are not new. Have had them appearing in iCal for years,
> >> first as "subscriptions," then as Google "Delegates".
> >>
> >> The duplication started maybe a month or two ago. I can see both "copies"
> >> in the side bar. All the calendars I "own" now appear under what I think
> >> is a new sidebar category, "Google Accounts" as well as under "Delegates"
> >> where they historically appeared. I don't remember there being a Google
> >> Account category in the side bar before this. If there was one, it only
> >> listed my "main" calendar.
> >>
> >> I can change visibility off for one set or the other so that only one
> >> iteration is visible, but there are several reasons this is not desirable.
> >> The most important is that there appears to be some link between them, so
> >> changing one set doesn't "stick" over time and at some point changes the
> >> other.
> >>
> >> I tried deleting all the "Delegates" but when I did this, the Google
> >> Accounts listings all vanished and I had to rebuild all the delegates.
> >> Sometimes the "Google Accounts" listings all just disappear (except for
> >> the main calendar) for no obvious reason.
> >>
> >> At this point, I'm confused about what is actually happening here and
> >> looking for clues or clarification.
> >>
> >> This is in Snow Leopard so I don't think this is an iCloud issue.
> >>
> >> I also have a brand new listing for my Mail IMAP account "Mail To Do." I
> >> understand what's happening there and I don't think it's related, but
> >> thought I should mention it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> tod
> >>
> >> Tod Hopkins
> >> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> >> todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-
On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:43 AM, T Hopkins wrote:
> Yep. Yesterday I deselected visibility for all the "Delegate" versions, leaving the "Google Accounts" versions selected. This was fine for the day. This morning, upon opening the laptop (Calendar still running), the Google Accounts calendar listings are all gone. Except the main one which is NOT linked as a delegate since it's never needed to be.
>
> I think that the delegate function is still necessary. The bug is the duplicate appearance as a Google Account. Next time I'll try deselecting the view of the Google Accounts and see if that sticks. Haven't done that yet because I was hoping it would work the other way around. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> tod
>
> Tod Hopkins
> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> todhopkins-at-
>
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Gijzette Strickland wrote:
>
> > Mine is doing the same thing, just started recently. I am also using Snow
> > Leopard.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Gijzette Strickland - Elfin Bears˙ -
> > OOAK Miniature Bears and Friends
> > http://www.elfinbea
> > http://twitter.
> > "It is astonishing how many thoroughly mature, well-adjusted grown-ups
> > harbor a teddy bear - which is perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and
> > well-adjusted.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:22 PM, T Hopkins <hoplist@hillmanncar
> >
> >> I have a new problem with my Google calendars appearing twice in iCal.
> >> The calendars are not new. Have had them appearing in iCal for years,
> >> first as "subscriptions,
> >>
> >> The duplication started maybe a month or two ago. I can see both "copies"
> >> in the side bar. All the calendars I "own" now appear under what I think
> >> is a new sidebar category, "Google Accounts" as well as under "Delegates"
> >> where they historically appeared. I don't remember there being a Google
> >> Account category in the side bar before this. If there was one, it only
> >> listed my "main" calendar.
> >>
> >> I can change visibility off for one set or the other so that only one
> >> iteration is visible, but there are several reasons this is not desirable.
> >> The most important is that there appears to be some link between them, so
> >> changing one set doesn't "stick" over time and at some point changes the
> >> other.
> >>
> >> I tried deleting all the "Delegates" but when I did this, the Google
> >> Accounts listings all vanished and I had to rebuild all the delegates.
> >> Sometimes the "Google Accounts" listings all just disappear (except for
> >> the main calendar) for no obvious reason.
> >>
> >> At this point, I'm confused about what is actually happening here and
> >> looking for clues or clarification.
> >>
> >> This is in Snow Leopard so I don't think this is an iCloud issue.
> >>
> >> I also have a brand new listing for my Mail IMAP account "Mail To Do." I
> >> understand what's happening there and I don't think it's related, but
> >> thought I should mention it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> tod
> >>
> >> Tod Hopkins
> >> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> >> todhopkins-at-
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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