Importing Old document from OS 9.2 to OS X

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I had OS 9.2 in my old PowerBook.
I just bought a new Powerbook G4 with OS X, i tried to tranfere all my document form G3. Microsoft Word, excel PowerPoint etc. They dont have a extension like ''cellulaire'' without ''.doc''. My new G4 system recognize it like unix file. i have to add extension to file to make it recognize by application. Well i have thousant of file and i dont remember wich extension it was.

some help me please.

THank
 
Actually, you do not need a file extension. Just click on one of the word processor documents, then go to the File Menu and select Get Info. The window that opens will have a lot of information. You want to click on the arrow next to Open with.

There should be a pull down menu - select Other and you will be given a window to move through your Applications folder and select the program you want to open that file. Now at the bottom of that Open With section is a Change All button. Click on that and all your documents will open with that program. Close the Get Info Window and just click twice on the document.

Do the same with Excel and PowerPoint - if you have separate progams to open those.
 
i just did what you said, when i click on ''change all'' they error message saying that it is missing information and ask for update. I did a update and close the windows.

The icon didn't change
when i double click on it, it will open word application. (OK)
But then it work only for that file.
For other word document it is asking to choose the application.

thank for helping me.

Cheryl said:
Actually, you do not need a file extension. Just click on one of the word processor documents, then go to the File Menu and select Get Info. The window that opens will have a lot of information. You want to click on the arrow next to Open with.

There should be a pull down menu - select Other and you will be given a window to move through your Applications folder and select the program you want to open that file. Now at the bottom of that Open With section is a Change All button. Click on that and all your documents will open with that program. Close the Get Info Window and just click twice on the document.

Do the same with Excel and PowerPoint - if you have separate progams to open those.
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Well, you have one corrected. You just may have to do that with each file individually when you need to open it.

Actually, try this:

Go to another document and click once on it. Now go to the File menu and select Open With. You will see another menu appear. What does it show you for the default?
 
How did you transfer the documents from the 9 machine to the X machine? Did you use FTP, Personal File Sharing, AppleTalk?

Some protocols don't respect Mac OS's resource fork/data fork parts of the file (extra data associating the file with some certain applications), so all you get is a file without a "creator" type (basically, data that tells the file what application to open with/what application created the file).
 
Compressing will avoid problems like this. You'll have the complete file as it was on the other machine.
 
That's one way, but it would still be helpful to know exactly how you set up the transfer -- what cables you used, how you did the transfer (what protocol you used), etc...

There should be a way to directly copy them over without losing that information.
 
Ah, how is that USB drive formatted? Did it come formatted? If so, it's likely formatted as FAT32, and sometimes that can cause the resource forks to become unusable, or not present at all.

Can you get your hands on a crossover ethernet cable? I believe that the newest PowerBooks can utilize a regular ethernet cable, and, if connected by ethernet and shared over AppleTalk, then you might not have this problem. AppleTalk may need to be enabled in the application "Directory Access" (Applications > Utilities > Directory Access) under the "Services" tab on the new OS X PowerBook. Make sure a checkmark is beside "AppleTalk."

After that, just switch on "Personal File Sharing" in the "Sharing" pane of the System Preferences on the OS X PowerBook, then use "Chooser" on the old PowerBook to connect to the new PowerBook. Log in using your new OS X PowerBook's username and password, and you should be able to mount the drives and directly copy the files over.
 
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