Doug writes, <Strange, I am using my granddaughters G4 with OS 10.3.9 which has Classic and CE but she does not want me running CE instead prefers Mail, sigh! However I find I cannot open files in Classic. I find an old file from AppleWorks or Word Perfect, PageMaker etc. and I cannot double click on them to open them and if I go into the app. itself and select Open I don't see the file appear on the HD listing, or Desktop.
This is not related to CE but I thought I would ask you how you open such files.> <Strange, I am using my granddaughters G4 with OS 10.3.9 which has Classic and CE but she does not want me running CE instead prefers Mail, sigh! However I find I cannot open files in Classic. I find an old file from AppleWorks or Word Perfect, PageMaker etc. and I cannot double click on them to open them and if I go into the app. itself and select Open I don't see the file appear on the HD listing, or Desktop. This is not related to CE but I thought I would ask you how you open such files.> Your problem sounds very bizarre to me. I open my Classic apps and files in OS X the exact same way I opened them under OS 9!!! The only difference with OS X is that there's the Dock, and therefore an "extra" way to open up stuff. But, here's how I open up stuff: I double click on the application's icon, and that opens it. Or, I double click on a particular file (such as a word processing file), which both launches AppleWorks 6 and opens the file. I also open up stuff when booted in OS X from the "Recent Items" menu (in 9, it's "Recent Applications" and "Recent Documents," but close enough). And I "re-activate" running but not-in-use apps by clicking their icons in the Dock. Every app and file I've tried to open, I opened via something in the above description. I don't understand why you shouldn't be able to do that, unless there's some sort of difference between Panther and Tiger maybe? I didn't ever use Panther or earlier, I only just started using OS X a couple of months ago when I got my Quicksilver 867 with a Tiger HD (10.4.7) already in it (I added my own OS 9 HD as soon as I confirmed that the machine worked!). Anyway, the way I have things set up is that the Tiger drive is my "regular" boot drive, and is set in System Preferences to automatically start Classic Mode upon boot. It gets its Classic requirements by using the System Folder in my OS 9 HD. Every so often, when I need to boot in 9, I just do an Option Restart and change the boot drive to the 9 HD so I run purely in 9 for as long as I need to. Because the Tiger drive is my "regular" boot drive, when I'm done in 9, a regular restart gets me back into OS X, where Classic Mode boots up right away. I can and have used CE booted in both drives on this machine, but since I'm usually booted in X, mostly I'm using it there in Classic Mode. (I need to use 9 a bit later, but right now, I'm still on Tiger, and of course this email is being composed and sent via CE!) Mail.app -- I refuse to even touch it! LOL And the stuff I'm hearing about it in here (not as elegant, not as efficient, etc.) and on the G-list (problems with it) are just SO not inspiring to make me even WANT to try it. Yuck! ~Yersinia. ________ "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
