Old publisher to new

[Johnny R]

Saved some publications on a disk from an ancient,
Publisher 1.0. My computer crashed. Got a new computer
and publisher 2002.

I cannot get the old publications from the disk since it
says the drive or network connection is unavailable.

The 1.0 disk is the old 5 and a quarter.

Is there a way I can still open these old publications on
Publisher 2002? Bear in mind that I am a computer dummy.

Thank you

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Well, you can't be too much of a computer dummy. You knew where to turn for
help. ;-)

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

How many files?

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Ed Bennett]

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Saved some publications on a disk from an ancient,
Publisher 1.0. My computer crashed. Got a new computer
and publisher 2002.

In addition to the responses already given:

Wow, congratulations. I have been aware of the problem for a while in
theory, but you are the first person I have ever seen who has actually
experienced the problem in practise.

The only versions of Publisher that can open Publisher 1.0 files are
Publisher 1.0 and Publisher 2.0 Microsoft decided to drop support after
Publisher 2.0
All versions of Publisher since 2.0 can open files from 2.0, though.

So the solution is to find someone with Publisher 2.0, and have them open
the 1.0 files in 2.0 and save them, allowing them to be opened in newer
versions of Publisher.

Unfortunately, I don't have Publisher 2.0.
Brian Kvalheim, on the other hand, does. And so do a couple of others, but
seeing as Brian has already volunteered, I'd respond to his post telling him
how many files you have and how large it totals (and how large the total is
when you compress them using WinZIP or a similar utility).
All being well (and the files being not too large), you will probably be
able to email them to Brian, who will convert them and send them back to
you.

If the files are large and unwieldly, maybe email will be out but putting
them on CD or similar and snail mailing them to a possessor of Publisher 2.0
will be an option.

Hope this helps!

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

I actually succumbed in a major clean up a few weeks ago, and dumped my
floppies for Publisher 2.0a to go to recycling heaven.

 

[Ed Bennett]

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I actually succumbed in a major clean up a few weeks ago, and dumped
my floppies for Publisher 2.0a to go to recycling heaven.

I never dump floppies - I am always running out of them, so any old software
on floppy gets recycled as a writeable.

Old copies of the Magic Bullet AV diskette, Windows 3.1, etc are so useful

 

[Mary Sauer]

The only way you can save these files is to get them off the 5 and a quarter disk and
onto something useable. Are you willing to mail the floppies? I still have a usable
5¼ floppy drive and Publisher 1.0 and 2.0. If the files are important to you I will
convert them.

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

Mary, you still have a 5¼ floppy working - I have not even seen a 5¼ floppy
disk or drive for must be five or more years.

 

[Mary Sauer]

David, I kept the old computer because of the floppy. I have several Apples I keep
for nostalgia reasons. When you have a big old house one can keep all sorts of junk.
One of the games from my Apple days sold on eBay for $600... consisted of an eight
page manual and a disk. It was sold in a plastic baggy. No glitzy boxes in those
days.

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

Mary I cannot believe what some will pay for stuff on eBay.
They would not want to come around to my abode looking for old stuff.
As soon as it has no use it is out.
I have a mansion the size of a castle, but horde nothing.