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borndesign - Jul 7, 2005 - 3:16 pm
I upgraded to OS 10.3
I have found that at minimum once a month I have to reinstall programs, and fonts that are listed come up missing in illustrator or photoshop. (i dont use anything like suitcase).
Pagemaker6.5 and quark5 (both run in OS9, through classic). They don't like to re-save existing files and create weirde file names when I do click to "save" (save as seems to do okay most of the time, though I will still get "file already exists" and end up having to shut down and restart and totally lose my file).
Acrobat distiller almost always fails in the middle of a pdf creation. I get a good two weeks out of it after a reinstall, before it goes coput again. I don't understand what is going on.
I run the disk utilities and norton system doctor at a minimum of once a month...
Twice now I have had to reinstall OSX.
I run OS 10.2.8 on my ibook and have no issues with any of this stuff. Can you shed a little light maybe?
Apple support is useless. They won't help me for less than $1000000000000000 a minute. (haha)
Thanks
karen
I have found that at minimum once a month I have to reinstall programs, and fonts that are listed come up missing in illustrator or photoshop. (i dont use anything like suitcase).
Pagemaker6.5 and quark5 (both run in OS9, through classic). They don't like to re-save existing files and create weirde file names when I do click to "save" (save as seems to do okay most of the time, though I will still get "file already exists" and end up having to shut down and restart and totally lose my file).
Acrobat distiller almost always fails in the middle of a pdf creation. I get a good two weeks out of it after a reinstall, before it goes coput again. I don't understand what is going on.
I run the disk utilities and norton system doctor at a minimum of once a month...
Twice now I have had to reinstall OSX.
I run OS 10.2.8 on my ibook and have no issues with any of this stuff. Can you shed a little light maybe?
Apple support is useless. They won't help me for less than $1000000000000000 a minute. (haha)
Thanks
karen
skapp - Jul 7, 2005 - 3:46 pm
Karen,
Your big problem is that you need to update your software to current OS X versions. You will continue to have problems with Classic versions that are becoming less and less usable with each update of OS X. It's time you bit the bullet.
You no longer need Acrobat to create PDF documents since OS X Panther and above will create PDF documents automagically since PDF is OS X's native document format.
Pagemaker no longer exists having been replaced by InDesign and Quark is now at version 6.5.
Norton utilities like Disk Doctor are not reliable or compatible with OS X, and if you are using an OS 9 version of Norton Utilities for Mac you are corrupting your hard drive each time you use it.
You need to decide whether to stay with OS 9 and continue using your OS 9 applications or to move on to OS X and update your software to OS X versions. If you continue with what you have and are doing, I assure you your problems will continue.
If it's a matter of money and you can't afford to upgrade your software, then it would make good sense to return to OS 9 (not Classic) and not use OS X until you can deal with the software upgrades.
Your big problem is that you need to update your software to current OS X versions. You will continue to have problems with Classic versions that are becoming less and less usable with each update of OS X. It's time you bit the bullet.
You no longer need Acrobat to create PDF documents since OS X Panther and above will create PDF documents automagically since PDF is OS X's native document format.
Pagemaker no longer exists having been replaced by InDesign and Quark is now at version 6.5.
Norton utilities like Disk Doctor are not reliable or compatible with OS X, and if you are using an OS 9 version of Norton Utilities for Mac you are corrupting your hard drive each time you use it.
You need to decide whether to stay with OS 9 and continue using your OS 9 applications or to move on to OS X and update your software to OS X versions. If you continue with what you have and are doing, I assure you your problems will continue.
If it's a matter of money and you can't afford to upgrade your software, then it would make good sense to return to OS 9 (not Classic) and not use OS X until you can deal with the software upgrades.
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