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At my wits end with my Mac...
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 729575" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>Christian, are all those years of work you've done with OO saved as Oo docs or did you per chance save them as MS word docs ? If it's the former, that's going to be the painful part I'd imagine, as I know all too well. Even saving them to .doc format at this point probably won't help due to the fact that the formatting will be messed up in the transition. Is this the main problem with that part of it ? If so, I can only recommend (off the top of my head) exporting them to .pdf files and trying to work with them that way. </p><p></p><p>As for the external HD transfers.. yeah, that's a PITA for sure. I went through the same thing. Had to get a new external, format it to FAT 32 in order to get them to play nicely and then transfer all the data. Switching isn't as easy or fun as some locals make it out to be, and Apple sure doesn't care about making it easier, after they have your money. YMMV though. I personally think there was little reason for you to switch considering that you can use some great software with XP. I'd have simply downgraded if I was you. Vista sure does suck though.. that's for sure. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 729575, member: 59143"] Christian, are all those years of work you've done with OO saved as Oo docs or did you per chance save them as MS word docs ? If it's the former, that's going to be the painful part I'd imagine, as I know all too well. Even saving them to .doc format at this point probably won't help due to the fact that the formatting will be messed up in the transition. Is this the main problem with that part of it ? If so, I can only recommend (off the top of my head) exporting them to .pdf files and trying to work with them that way. As for the external HD transfers.. yeah, that's a PITA for sure. I went through the same thing. Had to get a new external, format it to FAT 32 in order to get them to play nicely and then transfer all the data. Switching isn't as easy or fun as some locals make it out to be, and Apple sure doesn't care about making it easier, after they have your money. YMMV though. I personally think there was little reason for you to switch considering that you can use some great software with XP. I'd have simply downgraded if I was you. Vista sure does suck though.. that's for sure. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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