Thank you Barry for your help.  I have now downloaded the Mac Genealogy programme. I will not go into winXP at the moment. This is a great programme for people like me! Bette Bette --- On Mon, 25/4/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: SENIOR-NEWBIE Digest, Vol 6, Issue 22 To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 25 April, 2011, 8:01 When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. Today's Topics:    1. Re: PAF for mac users (Barry) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:38:40 +0100 From: Barry <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] PAF for mac users To: Bette <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello Bette, Sunday, April 24, 2011, 6:21:10 AM, you wrote: B> Have recently changed from PC to an i-Mac and am having trouble B> downloading PAF Unfortunately the versions for Mac that are around don't work on the latest MacOSX and there are no plans to port PAF to it either :-( There's an equivalent program http://www.macgenealogy.org/paw2u/ that can open PAF files but hasn't the full functionality of the original program. The alternative would be to run a copy of WinXP in Virtual Box but you'd need a valid WinXP licence key to do this - the key from your old WinXP can be used if it's no longer operational. It's not a trivial thing to install but not impossible either with a bit of help and I can do that if you wish. I use Virtual Box on my Ubuntu to run WinXP for programs that it requires. -- Best regards, Barry                      mailto:[email protected] MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid' 64bit ------------------------------ To contact the SENIOR-NEWBIE list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the SENIOR-NEWBIE mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SENIOR-NEWBIE Digest, Vol 6, Issue 22 ********************************************