Thank you so much Yersinia-
I fooled around according to your instructions and found I could make a
duplicate copy of a Quark and Apple Document, put them on the Desktop
and then opened the Apps. and then opened the files. I also double
clicked on them and that worked too. Can't believe how I can be such a
dummy.
warm regards,
doug
On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Yersinia wrote:
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.
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