Ricardo Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Just downloaded/installed the 10.5.1 Pc Viewer on an old PC Windows 98 but it won?t open my Mac VW files (9.2 os/VW 10.1.2) I?m e-mailing the files from my mac and downloading them on the pc and all I get is this message: "This is an unrecognized file. It may be a Vector Works file created by a newer version of the application, it may be a very old MIni Cad file, it may have been created by another application, or it may have been corrupted by hardware or system error" I?m not familiar with Windos so I don?t have an idea of what am I doing wrong Ricardo Quote Link to comment
Hugo Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Why don't you update your VectorWorks installation to 10.5.1? The updates are free to download and install! Quote Link to comment
matto Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 also check the file has the right extension (.mcd) Quote Link to comment
Ricardo Posted March 16, 2004 Author Share Posted March 16, 2004 thanks for the replies Hugo: I will upgrade once I finish current work, don?t want to run into surprises. However I don?t think a VW 10.1.2 file should be a problem for a 10.5.1 viewer iboymatt: When I download the file in the PC I add the .mcd extension (don?t know if this is how it is supposed to be done) and the file icon even shows the VW logo, but can?t open it. Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 When I was working on Mac's, they used to always save 2 files on the disk for every one data file. The second one didn't show in MacOS directories, but did show in Windows directories, and was of no apparent use to Windows. Are they still doing that? And if so, is it possible you added the MCD extension to one of those extra files? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Ricardo, Try to go to File>Open from within the viewer to open the file. If the file does not open, please post the error message you receive. Another thing that may be causing the problem is the mail program on the MAC. If you have it set to encode attachments as binary, you'll run into that problem. Either turn off encoding for attachments in the email, or send the files stuffed using stuffit or any other compression program. Quote Link to comment
Ricardo Posted March 19, 2004 Author Share Posted March 19, 2004 That?s it Katie!!! The mail program is to blame, zipping the file solved the problem. Thank?s a lot Ricardo Quote Link to comment
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