Saved a document created on mountain lion can't open on snow leopard, saved a document created on mountain lion can't open on snow leopard

I saved a document created on mountain lion on my flash drive. I cannot open the falsh drive on my other computer which is snow leopard. I was able to go back and forth until I installed snow leopard. Is this normal?

How is the flash drive formatted?
And, which application and which format did you use/save the document in?

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Rosetta is not included Lion, if you are not familiar with Rosetta it was an application included in Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard that allowed PPC based apps to run on Intel based machines. That was over 5 years ago so it's time to move on. As has been suggested you can read those documents in Pages which is available on the App Store. Pages is part of the iWorks suite that replaced AppleWorks years ago. Currently iWorks is on iWorks 09 , and includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote. You can find each on the App store.

Just downloaded Mountain Lion and now none of my hundreds of Appleworks documents will open. This is a huge disaster! Please, anyone, I need a solution!

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To resize the drive do the following:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
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Now boot your computer using your Snow Leopard DVD:
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo
appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
Follow onscreen instructions to install Snow Leopard. Just be sure you select the new partition you created as the installer's target so you don't erase your Mountain Lion system.

Can't open files I've saved in Garageband. Lion 10.7.1

I just starting using the Garag Band app that came with my new mac with Lion 10.7.1. I've used Garage Band before but I am getting alot of "Can't open that file" after I create something and save it and try to open it again. I believe my Garage Band app is updated. Almost seems like a bug. What can I do? Here's a few of the things that happens:
1. I open the app, choose new project, pick "piano", pick choose. New project from Template comes up, I name it and pick "Create" and then I get the message--"The file could not be opened".
2. Sooo, I go back to the menu with "new Project" highlight the piano icon and double click on new project and it opens. I do my project, save, and then when I try to open it again whether I double click on the file or open an existing file or whatever, I can't open the file. I've used garage band on a previous computer and this has never happened.
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Clare

Hello Clare,
ConstantQuestions wrote:
I believe my Garage Band app is updated. Almost seems like a bug.
Make sure all your software is up to date by running "Software update" from the apple menu.
Then try again.
What are the protection settings for your newly created project?
Select a project you cannot open in the Finder, then open the information panel ("File -> Get Info", or type "cmd-I")
Disclose the "Sharing and Permission" section of the panel and look if the permissions are set correctly, and if the file is not locked, make sure the Filename ends with ".band" and "Garageband" is set to open the File.
Correct the protections, if need be.
If the problem persists, close Garageband and move the preference file (
/Users/your user name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.garageband.plist) to the trash, log off and in again, and try again.
As a last resort, reinstall Garageband
Regards
Léonie

I had Leopard on may Mac. I upgraded to Mountain Lion using Snow Leopard. I can't use my video with Mountain Lion. Can I load Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so I can use it with my camera?

I had Leopard on may Mac. I upgraded to Mountain Lion using Snow Leopard. I can't use my video with Mountain Lion. Can I load Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so I can use it with my camera?

First, you cannot do this if you have a Boot Camp partition.
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Before Mountain Lion and Aperture 3.4 Iphoto libraries would show up as a project. Can I still have this feature?

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HT3787 I saved all of my graduate school ppts to idisk- mobileme, on my macbook. I was unable to download Lion with this computer. I have now lost all my ppts. Is there anyway these can be retrieved now?

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Hi I just updated from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I write DVD's using Final Cut Pro, creating a DVD that plays HD and Standard Definition on one disk. My problem is when I used load the disk on my G5 it would ask if you want High Definition or Standar

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