On Sep 2, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote:
> From my point of view I can see no improvement in any of the old iWork > modules: Pages, Numbers (haven’t tried Keynote yet and am afraid of what I > will find). Also Photos is no improvement over iPhoto (IMHO). Everything > requires one or more extra steps to preform a function. > In Pages I set up a WP template but my template never open the way I had > saved it as a template. Apple lobotomized iWorks a few years ago when they came out with the iOS versions. They went for feature parity between OS X and iOS. They’ve very slowly been adding back features as the iOS versions are improved. We just have to face it, Apple doesn’t care much about the Mac any more because the real money is with iOS. For more proof of this, look at how the iOS stuff is updated every Fall while the MacBooks, server and mini are ignored. (I do have hope for a new MacBook in October.) > I even had to spend a bit of time figuring out how to mark a mail message > “not junk” Yeah, MacOS mail has lots of problems and it also is not getting updated very quickly for the same reason as above. > Is there some way to deactivate these new app so that when I double click on > a file it will open in the older version (of Pages, Numbers, etc. I’m afraid > to remove the new versions from my computer because I’m not sure what files I > have that will only work with the new version. I got carried away when I > first upgraded and didn’t really check out the newer stuff before using. You can edit the file com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist to do this. My solution was to get out of the habit of double-clicking. I right-click or control-click instead to choose the app I want. > I think I’m looking for a safe place on my computer where I can hide stuff > from the OP. Does such a place exist? If I move he new Pages out g the > Application folder will if still “take over” or will it just go > dormant/hibernate until I call it up? This probably won’t work most of the time because the choice of programs to launch is done in the bowels of the machine. It consults the launch services database. Thanks to Spotlight, it will eventually find you. L^2
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