Aaargh, no! Nooooo...!!
Feb. 12th, 2010 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceHow can I have a boxful of ancient disks attesting in and of themselves to my paranoia about back-up security, going back to books that almost predate the computer ("Floppies!" cried Alex, "how quaint!") - and yet not apparently have the One Book I Am Looking For, on any medium I can currently access?
I have the books that bracket that one chronologically; I have its sequel, several times. Just, not the one I need...
*sobs*
ETA: is okay! If you can't find what you want in the small things, look in the large: I powered up an old and semi-dead computer, plugged in ancient cranky monitor etc etc, and found it buried in an old back-up file I used to pass forward from one computer to the next. Yay. Lord only knows which version this is, but at least I have the words, in a format I can work with. (Tho' not in my preferred TextMaker - its vast and capacious filters cannot filter this. Indeed it says so, very specifically: "TextMaker is unable to open this file, as it is in WinWord 2 format." If it knows the format, why this uncharacteristic bashfulness? Is it legally forbidden to open WinWord 2 files? It's quite happy with all other known .doc formats. And OpenOffice is quite happy to open these. *is baffled*)
I have the books that bracket that one chronologically; I have its sequel, several times. Just, not the one I need...
*sobs*
ETA: is okay! If you can't find what you want in the small things, look in the large: I powered up an old and semi-dead computer, plugged in ancient cranky monitor etc etc, and found it buried in an old back-up file I used to pass forward from one computer to the next. Yay. Lord only knows which version this is, but at least I have the words, in a format I can work with. (Tho' not in my preferred TextMaker - its vast and capacious filters cannot filter this. Indeed it says so, very specifically: "TextMaker is unable to open this file, as it is in WinWord 2 format." If it knows the format, why this uncharacteristic bashfulness? Is it legally forbidden to open WinWord 2 files? It's quite happy with all other known .doc formats. And OpenOffice is quite happy to open these. *is baffled*)