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“This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”
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Re: “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”
#2A lot of people have absolutely no problem with proprietary software until it breaks. The problem is you never know when it will break, and what it'll take down with it.
I'm not saying 'go full Stallman'. I'm just saying think that when ever you hand over your data to a private company if they consider it as important as you consider it.
Re: “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”
#3I think even MS is better than this at supporting old Office binary formats. Only PowerPoint has completely removed the support for pre-97 formats. With Word/Excel you can generally unblock support for older formats even if by default they will not open.
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#4This is NOT true of all proprietary software. It's just that with apple either you keep upgrading to the latest and greatest all the time or you will have problems.
Apple has its pros and cons, and one of those is that you have to keep upgrading regularly.
Most proprietary software will offer upgrade paths from older versions.
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#5the guy is clearly living in the past. 2008 ain't sexy anymore...
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#6His biggest issue is he didn't have a CD reader? A basic USB DVD reader is cheap and sometimes quite handy. To say you lost your documents implies a lack of effort. If they were THAT important, you would get them.
As far as proprietary in general, MS Office has done a pretty good job other than their Office 2003 XML stuff which had to be broken when they lost the patent ruling to i4i. Anyone looking at document longevity now can easily use their XML formats.
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#7The "files" are really a folder/bundle with richtext and image files inside it. Why doesn't OP just extract the actual data from inside the bundle by right click > package contents
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#8This is NOT true of all proprietary software. It's just that with apple either you keep upgrading to the latest and greatest all the time or you will have problems. Apple has its pros and cons, and one of those is that you have to keep upgrading regularly. Most proprietary software will offer upgrade paths from older versions.
Additionally, there's nothing inherent about open source that avoids this sort of problem. An open source project could decide on exactly the same sort of upgrade path, where they support current-minus-one versions and that's it.
In theory, open source is better because the old code is still out there and you can get it up and running to upgrade your data. In practice, it can be pretty tough to get open source code that hasn't been maintained in years to build and run properly on a current OS install.
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#9This is NOT true of all proprietary software. It's just that with apple either you keep upgrading to the latest and greatest all the time or you will have problems. Apple has its pros and cons, and one of those is that you have to keep upgrading regularly. Most proprietary software will offer upgrade paths from older versions.
You are right, it is not true of all proprietary software. There is no problem with software upgrades, not even with frequent software upgrades. Problem is when the software requires regular document upgrades. This requirement can not be met in real life, if you produce few documents a month.
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#10For archival purposes, I strongly recommend saving extra versions of documents in PDF format. Those should be readable forever.