This is a disaster

- Opened in Numbers 2.3 the working well for over a year spreadsheet ABC created in Numbers 2.x
- Opened in Numbers 3 the same spreadsheet ABC created in Numbers 2.x
- So far no problem - spreadsheet in Numbers 3 seems identical to the one opened in Numbers 2.3, formulas didn't change, all seems OK at first sight
- Edited a value in the cell A that is a part of the formula ($A/$B) in cell C in Numbers 2.3 - no problem, the resulting value in cell C is correct
- Edited the same cell A in Numbers 3 - getting completely wrong resulting value in cell C, the formula remains unchanged but the math result is completely wrong and the format of the number in the cell changed
What is wrong??? Tried dozens of times...

[Update]
Tried something else - I opened the ABC spreadsheet in Numbers 2.3 and exported it to Excel file. Then opened the now Excel ABC spreadsheet in Numbers 3.0 - works perfectly, changing value in cell A results in correct value in cell C.
Seems that the original problem so far happens only when opening in Numbers 3 a spreadsheet created and modified in Numbers 2.x.

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I just got a new MacbookPro using Mavericks OS. When I tried to load Filemaker Pro I got this message: You can't open the application Filemaker Pro.app because Power PC applications are no longer supported. This is a disaster.
Ralph Landry1 wrote:
The only viable solution is to upgrade to the latest versions of the PPC legacy software that will run under Mavericks.
Except for the other viable solution:
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[Click on image to enlarge]
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17285039&postcount=564

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I just updatet my Iphone 4S to IOS6 and the where a error, and now itunes telling me I need to recover my Iphone to use my Iphone and to recover I will lose all my media files and other files! this is an disaster! What can I do?
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Hi JC,
My iPad is in a similar state, although I arrived in the bizarro state by a different path. I am also waiting for the apple experts to get back with me. I have an iPad 1 with ios 5.1.1 and Pages 1.7.1.
In the mean time, while I was waiting, I found a way to extract the TEXT from a large Pages document I did not want to lose; it was the result of many years of notes. This might save you some time instead of sifting through the raw index.db.
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I suggest you move the file out of the iTunes directory before you start working with it, just in case something unexpected happens, you don't want to lose the only copy of the data you are trying to recover.
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relationships
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The iOS Pages file format is more cryptic than the simple zip/XML format from the desktop OS X version of Pages.
Hope this helps a little, although you seem to be OK with the approach of sifting through the raw index.db file. The Pages document I wanted to recover was 63 pages long and manually sifting through all the crap in the index.db drove me on a quest to find the real text within the index.db file, which i found.
Sorry for the length of this post,
Cheers

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> SAP Version: ECC 6.0 SR3
> Database Version: 10.2.0.4
> OS Version: HP-UX B.11.31
>
> i have a server where O/S installed. i want to make this as a disaster Recovery server.
> now i want to know.
> 1- what is the man power needed.?
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> 2 -which technical guys i needed.?
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> 3-how much time it will take?
Depends totally on the business recoverability requirements.
How much downtime can it take until your business breaks?
How much is business willing to pay for that?
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> 4- can a basis consultant only do this job?
Depends on the basis consultant.
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> 5-Is any separate team for DR server installation.
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[Click on image to enlarge]
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