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Numbers '08 has crashed three times on me today. I'd like to update to something more compatible with High Sierra but the App Store isn't carrying that version. If there's a legal fix for the issue, I'd be glad to know of it. Will keep looking.

(And I just found out: Keynote crashes whenever I try to launch it.)

And my address book files imported successfully into Contacts...but have since been reduced to two contacts. Not sure how that happened, and not happy about it.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home

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thewayne

I have the same problem with iMovie: no older version to install on my Sierra laptop. It sucks that Apple is do determined that everyone MUST run the latest OS.

I really don't care for their office productivity suite because - for me - it encourages too much fiddling with presentation. I just want to crunch numbers and put words on paper, so I use LibreOffice. I would prefer to delete them, but knowing Apple's fondness for not letting you reload them after a new OS generation is released, I'll keep them. They'll provide updates for old versions, just no new install images.

From:

dewline

Which reminds me to update my OpenOffice installation.

From:

thewayne

Mine used to tell me when I opened it that an update was available, now I have to check it when I remember. I don't know what changed. No big deal as it's rather stable, just a curiosity.

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dewline

Same here. Just feels like - given that MS Office 2004 won't work in High Sierra - I need a fallback.

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thewayne

I run MS Office 2003 in Windows 10, I wonder how much longer that will work! It's the last version before the ribbon bar took over, and I absolutely loathe said item! I know the menus inside and out, and the ribbon bar just slows me down because it changes constantly. Every time I start Excel it complains about a missing or corrupt DLL and has to re-run setup, so I just let it and live with it, it still runs just fine. At work I have to live with Office 365.

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dewline

I've had to work with that ribbon bar in the last few years. It's slowly started to make design sense to me, but I spend too long between work contracts not practicing with it, because Mac gear at home. So my brain has to work extra to get back up to speed with it. Empathy to you.

As for subscription-ware...eurgh.

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thewayne

At least I'm not paying for subscriptionware. And currently at work, someone let our Adobe license lapse, so I can use Acrobat Reader, and that's it! I had to do some somewhat major Photoshop work for the library yesterday, fortunately I had my laptop with me and did it on that. And sent an email off to our IT guy asking when he thought this might be resolved. I know it's a main campus thing, hopefully he'll have some insight. They've got 4 weeks until classes start, and then they'll have classes needing Adobe programs on day 1.