“I’m too old for this shit!” Roger Murtaugh, repeated line in “Lethal Weapon” Apparently, Apple’s Keynote is totally concerned with the “now”. The past is gone and uninteresting. Even when the past is one of my presentations I need to open again. And hey, perhaps even (gasp!) reuse a couple of slides. At least that would explain this error message: This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old. To open it, save it with Keynote ’09 first. I got it when I tried to open an older presentation (from 2008) which I had not opened since presenting it. Crashing when embedded videos (that worked in prior versions) do not work anymore is bad enough (solution see here), but this is something else. Apple’s solution is to have you install a older version of the program you are currently using. Just to convert a file. Seriously Apple … never heard about backwards compatibility? A program should be able to open all files created with prior versions of that program. After all, they did not ditch the name “Keynote.app” and replaced it with “Just-a-Presentation.app”. It’s still the same program. It suggests that you can still open past presentations. I mean, a [...]
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