"Helen Castle" <helenlcastle@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:47ae3381$0$20842$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > No idea what system - dont believe he knows either > > Generally, I believe, Macs are so robust you dont need to know that sort > of stuff. > > I will tell him the programs to look for and he will find them - if he > doesnt then he cant read my files > > thanks for all your help > > -- > Helen Castle > Narangba > Unfortunately, Macs aren't as "robust" as you think. I have some senior rellies that are Mac tragics and have found that not all Macs are backward compatible. They have recently bought a new Mac which has "X" OS installed and which will not accept any data from their old Mac which is using a version "10.?.?". -- Bob JONES

In article <k8srj.12992$421.10065@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Bob Jones" <rjo25512@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > "Helen Castle" <helenlcastle@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message > news:47ae3381$0$20842$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > > No idea what system - dont believe he knows either > > > > Generally, I believe, Macs are so robust you dont need to know that sort > > of stuff. > > > > I will tell him the programs to look for and he will find them - if he > > doesnt then he cant read my files > > > > thanks for all your help > > > > -- > > Helen Castle > > Narangba > > > Unfortunately, Macs aren't as "robust" as you think. I have some senior > rellies that are Mac tragics and have found that not all Macs are backward > compatible. They have recently bought a new Mac which has "X" OS installed > and which will not accept any data from their old Mac which is using a > version "10.?.?". Something is else is wrong with their setup. Macintosh computers can transfer data from older systems even systems from 10 years ago. So a little more details on what exactly they were trying to do and what the error or other messages they were receiving are.

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:08:32 GMT, Bob Jones <rjo25512@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Unfortunately, Macs aren't as "robust" as you think. I have some senior > rellies that are Mac tragics and have found that not all Macs are backward > compatible. They have recently bought a new Mac which has "X" OS installed Every Mac shipped in the last 7 years or so will be running some version of OSX. > and which will not accept any data from their old Mac which is using a > version "10.?.?". Then they're doing it wrong. OS-X is version 10. And for the first 5 years of OS-X, it shipped with "classic" mode which would allow users to access apps up to 10 or 15 years old. Please don't spread misinformation about a computer platform you clearly don't understand. It doesn't help anything.