2009-06-18, 00:15 | Link #1 |
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Problems with some documents of iMac
My grandfather had always worked with iMac computers, in the last 8 years he had worked with a Macintosh (this model)
Last week he finally decided to get a new computer, he bough the newest Leopard model (this one) Now, he had copied all his documents from the previous mac into an USB, the documents are in Word Mac, simply written documents, but the problem is that hios new computer doesn't read the old documents, when we put the USB and try to open the old documents, they appear as terminals that open a small window filled with characters like "####" or "////" and related. We though that the USB could be damaged but we tried with 3 diferents USBs and it was all the same, I tried to open the documents with Open Office and it didn't worked either, my Grandfatehr has worked on these docs for years, they're really important for him. Anyone could help us here?
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2009-06-18, 08:41 | Link #3 |
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OpenOffice fare poorly in document compatibility, especially with Office 2008 documents. You can try repairing the USB volume by going to Disk Utility and selecting the USB Drive and click on "Repair Volume."
Also, iWork and Office 2008 will have better compatibility with Microsoft Word docs, especially the older ones. If you can obtain a copy of Office 2004 for Mac, it will be better since it still have VBA compatibility.
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You mean an Open Office 2004 or the system of Mac Word 2004?
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2009-06-18, 09:26 | Link #5 | |
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If you still have the old iMac, try saving all the documents to a RTF format, so they become readable or if you have some compression program like Stuffit on the old iMac, try compressing to a zip file and copy it to a USB drive and decompress it, but you are SOL if you don't use Microsoft Office for Mac.
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2009-06-18, 09:29 | Link #6 |
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D: it is most likely because of the version difference between the two macs
with PC you have this as well but hen with new vs. old: if I have a document made with office 2007 I can't open it in an older version it will show pages and pages of codes what text program was your grandpa using on the old one and what version number is it? |
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Maybe saving them as you say would work to open them on my PC and then conver them but you see... they're more than 450 documents.
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2009-06-18, 15:48 | Link #8 | |
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"Cookies"
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