"This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old.
To open it, save it with Keynote ’09 first.” – I was greeted with this message today when I was about to publish few more presentations on Slideshare about Knowledge Management. The offending presentation is from 2008. I have around 20 files created in older Keynote versions. They are not the disposable kinds of presentations – you know, the ones that you prepare, project and forget about them. I like to reuse them, show when I’m talking about various subjects contained in them.
How I am supposed to access them now? “save it with Keynote ’09 first”, but how? I don’t have Keynote '09 any more on my fresh Mavericks install.
The iCloud loads the presentations without any complaint, but it can’t open them – same message. One would at least hope, that they will have conversion tools at their side, if it is too cumbersome to distribute it to users and have additional customer support overhead.
I do have an installation CD, but I don’t have a CD drive any more. I'm not buying a piece of hardware to install obsolete software from a company that can't keep compatibility just two versions backwards.
For comparison: I can read my university presentations from 2001, my conference presentations from 2003-2004 created in Open Office. That’s more than 10 years and more than three versions ago!
I’m usually careful when using proprietary formats and try not to use them if there is a negotiable alternative. I was using iWork because it was pleasant to use, intuitive and it never went into my way. The Keynote was the best alternative out there for me – the output was just lovely. The output from other tools is not that nice, or at least requires much more work to achieve similar results.
How can I trust Apple now and use their products if they can easily render my documents unreadable without any immediately accessible (from the internet) and legal option?
P.S.: I apologize for the rant, but this should be a warning for you who are using proprietary products as well as I do
#Apple #iWork #fail #proprietary #OpenOffice
.
To open it, save it with Keynote ’09 first.” – I was greeted with this message today when I was about to publish few more presentations on Slideshare about Knowledge Management. The offending presentation is from 2008. I have around 20 files created in older Keynote versions. They are not the disposable kinds of presentations – you know, the ones that you prepare, project and forget about them. I like to reuse them, show when I’m talking about various subjects contained in them.
How I am supposed to access them now? “save it with Keynote ’09 first”, but how? I don’t have Keynote '09 any more on my fresh Mavericks install.
The iCloud loads the presentations without any complaint, but it can’t open them – same message. One would at least hope, that they will have conversion tools at their side, if it is too cumbersome to distribute it to users and have additional customer support overhead.
I do have an installation CD, but I don’t have a CD drive any more. I'm not buying a piece of hardware to install obsolete software from a company that can't keep compatibility just two versions backwards.
For comparison: I can read my university presentations from 2001, my conference presentations from 2003-2004 created in Open Office. That’s more than 10 years and more than three versions ago!
I’m usually careful when using proprietary formats and try not to use them if there is a negotiable alternative. I was using iWork because it was pleasant to use, intuitive and it never went into my way. The Keynote was the best alternative out there for me – the output was just lovely. The output from other tools is not that nice, or at least requires much more work to achieve similar results.
How can I trust Apple now and use their products if they can easily render my documents unreadable without any immediately accessible (from the internet) and legal option?
P.S.: I apologize for the rant, but this should be a warning for you who are using proprietary products as well as I do
#Apple #iWork #fail #proprietary #OpenOffice
.
View 49 previous comments
are you saying I don't need to do steps 7 thru 9? The file doesn't open if I just change the version number.May 27, 2015
tx Brian for this great tip!
For me indeed, steps 7 onwards aren't necessary... just changing the version with textedit was enough.Aug 10, 2015
There are some converters at https://www.talkingcucumber.com/keynote-converter/ that can do this for you if you don't want to deal opening individual files. They do batch conversion. I used the Keynote and Pages ones.Sep 15, 2015- I have solved the problem. I had all my slides on my old hard drive with the Keynote '09 and changed to a new SSD-harddrive (or what it is called) and could not open them, tried and tried. Both the old and the new hard drive was updated to Yosemite. When I connected to the old system and opened the slides in the Keynote '09 and pressed "save as" on one of the particular slides (anyone !) and name it something you can paste this particular slide to a USB-memory and open it in the new Keynote. Saving one particular slide ("save as") gives you the whole slide show.Sep 23, 2015
And how can historians in 500 years time view these documents?
Then problem is longer term that accessing 5 year old documents. It's about preserving history for future generations.48w- @joe True! But we managed to decipher hieroglyphs, so I am not too worried.48w
