Anyone know if it's possible to export from Web Confidential to this application?
"Web Confidential for Palm OS is not available anymore and support has stopped." -- their Support reply after it corrupted and died on my Palm PDA and can't be fixed, apparently. Hosed.
I paid for it and use it, Pismo (900mhz) and more recently Mini Intel.
Still, what I wish for needs either a smarter user (-: or better workflow with the software.
Wish:
Find all the files that are dupes.
Then note which folders they're in.
Then show me all the _folders_ that contain one or more identical files.
Show the folders that are identical content.
Let me shuffle files until I have eliminated the dupes and left all the files in the one folder I want to keep.
Now, I just end up with lots of folders that are almost the same, one file may be duplicated.
Yes, if I'd done backups in a more organized way since the first CP/M 8" floppy machine I started with, I wouldn't need this. Who knew?
Defunct???? Uh, oh.
Softchaos website isn't available.
I just started getting popups yesterday saying I had another copy of Workstrip running on my network, so my Workstrip was having some of its functionality disabled.
I'm not on a network. I have only one copy of the app.
Anyone have a clue what's going on with Workstrip?
I did take the upgrade and continue to be happy with it; I still want a much simpler interface
(like, a list of all the characters found in a document in one column, and next to it, all the guesses the programmer's made for substitution;
let me tick off what to replace with, or type in if there's no good guess, then run it.
Or, go to the first unrecognized character, give me the list of possible corrections or a place for one, let me add context to make it more specific, and run it on all, then go to the next ....
It's still maddeningly hard to clean up text and leave an editable file; reading mostly on a PDA, I find it hard still to get an output file, even after the automatic cleanup, I don't know any way to output directly to a Palm readable file that can still be edited.
Instead I use say PorDiBle, going from Mac text to Palm document file. But it's no more helpful about quickly cleaning up problems, it just says "something" is unrecognized.
Tiresome. Go find it (sigh), try again (sigh).
I had an old, old Mac or DOS app that did text conversions nicely long ago.
Argh! I love the app and use it daily but -- please, please -- I want the inverse of "ignore errors" -- it's not annoying, it's just ineptly helpful. Let it be more helpful, not ignored.
I want a list of what characters generate errors, so I can do back into the source doc and replace them!
Please, give us something that helps us identify what the problem characters are!
-- flags the unrecognized characters in a file?
-- lists them in a popup?
-- ideally, give us a column listing each unrecognized character and let us type in next to it a substitute and choose to make that permanent (and email it to you so you can build it into the next release)
Finding the danged problem characters is tedious. TextSoap doesn't do this either. You all should talk, either of you might implement this.
The only darned reason I wish I owned Microsoft Word is to be able to use its not-too-bad implementation of grep to find all non-ASCII characters for example.
I'm going to try this one out; the feature set looks extensive. If it can do something the others can't -- and given that the authors read their reviews and comment here, which is excellent -- I'll figure it's worth the money.
Now I'm a fossil, mid-50s, can afford it, and figure part of supporting shareware is supporting the people who use, comment, suggest, criticize, try to be helpful and never pay -- as well as supporting the software writers. Not everyone has money or software-writing competence.
There's significant value to non-paying users who are good beta testers (or willing crash dummies like I am -- follow instructions carefully, and report what breaks, without being helpful at the code level).
I've registered and use DupFinder (1.3.1), DoubletScan (10.2.3), DuplicateCatcher, and FileBuddy. That's over quite a few years, usually early in the shareware author's career, partly to encourage, partly because I found a need for something the app could do, and partly because, well, hell, I try to support the idea, because I remember when there wasn't any shareware. I registered PC-Talk. I think ...
Although it's still for sale on the website, I just got email from the Support link (palm@web-confidential.com):
"Web Confidential for Palm OS is not available anymore and support has stopped."
This was the response when I asked for help when the database had become corrupted in sync between my Palm OS PDA and my Intel mac.
Hosed the entire Web Confidential file, all gone.
Anyone have an alternative to suggest that will work with both Mac OSX 4.11 and higher AND with Palm OS?
And if possible a way to transfer several hundred records without retyping?
OK, I found v3.1 on a backup, and it still works fine. Maybe it's a problem with having a G3, or having OSX 10.3.9. I found an old email for the developers I'll try.
Current 3.2 started crashing today.
I can't find any contact info for the developer (maybe it's in the 'About' box but the app won't open! a new icon for it flickers in the dock then disappears)
dyld: /Users/hank/Applications/PorDiBle 3.2/PorDiBle.app/Contents/MacOS/PorDiBle can't open library: /System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
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Please post contact info for the developer if someone has it.
It's an indispensable app for me -- if anyone has a link to the previous version, please post too.
[Version 3.2]
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File Buddy
And at my present age and state of decrepitude, I can forgive anyone anything because I realize just how fragile health and even life are.
FB has been a help and a comfort for many years. If FB, or God forbid its developer, comes to a halt before I do -- I can't complain.
I can hope the story's not over yet.
PasswordWallet
"Web Confidential for Palm OS is not available anymore and support has stopped." -- their Support reply after it corrupted and died on my Palm PDA and can't be fixed, apparently. Hosed.
I sure don't want to retype all this data.
+1
Tidy Up!
Still, what I wish for needs either a smarter user (-: or better workflow with the software.
Wish:
Find all the files that are dupes.
Then note which folders they're in.
Then show me all the _folders_ that contain one or more identical files.
Show the folders that are identical content.
Let me shuffle files until I have eliminated the dupes and left all the files in the one folder I want to keep.
Now, I just end up with lots of folders that are almost the same, one file may be duplicated.
Yes, if I'd done backups in a more organized way since the first CP/M 8" floppy machine I started with, I wouldn't need this. Who knew?
WorkStrip
TextSoap
hank2 reviewed on 09 Feb 2007
(like, a list of all the characters found in a document in one column, and next to it, all the guesses the programmer's made for substitution;
let me tick off what to replace with, or type in if there's no good guess, then run it.
Or, go to the first unrecognized character, give me the list of possible corrections or a place for one, let me add context to make it more specific, and run it on all, then go to the next ....
It's still maddeningly hard to clean up text and leave an editable file; reading mostly on a PDA, I find it hard still to get an output file, even after the automatic cleanup, I don't know any way to output directly to a Palm readable file that can still be edited.
Instead I use say PorDiBle, going from Mac text to Palm document file. But it's no more helpful about quickly cleaning up problems, it just says "something" is unrecognized.
Tiresome. Go find it (sigh), try again (sigh).
I had an old, old Mac or DOS app that did text conversions nicely long ago.
PorDiBle
I want a list of what characters generate errors, so I can do back into the source doc and replace them!
Please, give us something that helps us identify what the problem characters are!
-- flags the unrecognized characters in a file?
-- lists them in a popup?
-- ideally, give us a column listing each unrecognized character and let us type in next to it a substitute and choose to make that permanent (and email it to you so you can build it into the next release)
Finding the danged problem characters is tedious. TextSoap doesn't do this either. You all should talk, either of you might implement this.
The only darned reason I wish I owned Microsoft Word is to be able to use its not-too-bad implementation of grep to find all non-ASCII characters for example.
Hardware Monitor
Ge Pismo, with 900 mhz aftermarket CPU.
Nothing found to report.
zsDuplicateHunter
I'm going to try this one out; the feature set looks extensive. If it can do something the others can't -- and given that the authors read their reviews and comment here, which is excellent -- I'll figure it's worth the money.
Now I'm a fossil, mid-50s, can afford it, and figure part of supporting shareware is supporting the people who use, comment, suggest, criticize, try to be helpful and never pay -- as well as supporting the software writers. Not everyone has money or software-writing competence.
There's significant value to non-paying users who are good beta testers (or willing crash dummies like I am -- follow instructions carefully, and report what breaks, without being helpful at the code level).
I've registered and use DupFinder (1.3.1), DoubletScan (10.2.3), DuplicateCatcher, and FileBuddy. That's over quite a few years, usually early in the shareware author's career, partly to encourage, partly because I found a need for something the app could do, and partly because, well, hell, I try to support the idea, because I remember when there wasn't any shareware. I registered PC-Talk. I think ...
http://paulspicks.com/history.asp
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Ghost Hunter
Web Confidential
"Web Confidential for Palm OS is not available anymore and support has stopped."
This was the response when I asked for help when the database had become corrupted in sync between my Palm OS PDA and my Intel mac.
Hosed the entire Web Confidential file, all gone.
Anyone have an alternative to suggest that will work with both Mac OSX 4.11 and higher AND with Palm OS?
And if possible a way to transfer several hundred records without retyping?
Cocktail
I see there's an update for OSX 10.4 that solves the problem, but is it safe to use under 10.3.9?
There are many comments but most seem to be back and forth argument, need a balanced summary if anyone's got one.
PorDiBle
PorDiBle
I can't find any contact info for the developer (maybe it's in the 'About' box but the app won't open! a new icon for it flickers in the dock then disappears)
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Host Name: Hank.local
Date/Time: 2005-10-21 15:24:40 -0700
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: PorDiBle
Path: /Users/hank/Applications/PorDiBle 3.2/PorDiBle.app/Contents/MacOS/PorDiBle
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 589
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
dyld: /Users/hank/Applications/PorDiBle 3.2/PorDiBle.app/Contents/MacOS/PorDiBle can't open library: /System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
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Please post contact info for the developer if someone has it.
It's an indispensable app for me -- if anyone has a link to the previous version, please post too.