Solution for old APP's (Mac)

[Fotofan]

Solution for old APP’s
I have 82 APP’s that no longer work with Sierra.
It’s almost impossible to remake all of them.
I found a solution to make them working with Sierra.
- First make a new little presentation with the new version of PTE (8.0.22).
- Save it for Mac and test it.
- In Finder click with the right button on the file and choose "Shown Package Contents"
- Go to "Contents - Resources" and replace the file "Slideshow.dat" with the one of the old file.
- Rename the new file and save it.
It works for me.

[Igor]

Thanks for your idea.

Yes, it will work well for Mac presentations created with PicturesToExe 8.0.xx. Probably more old presentations also will work.

[Fotofan]

For me it works with presentations made till 2006.

[baldsparky]

Thank you so much for this, it is really helpful and much appreciated. I have just tried it on 2 shows made in 2016 and it works fine.

 

Paul

[Ronniebootwest]

This sounds like a solution for slide shows created by the original user but, what about when a user has downloaded a slide show from another user?

I will contact Barry Beckham and see what he can suggest. Barry has excellent slide shows that I have downloaded over some years now, they won't play in Mac Sierra now.

[Lin Evans]

Ron,

It doesn't appear that it matters where you got the file that doesn't work, as long as you have the old "slideshow.dat" file. Why don't you try it just as suggested...

Best regards,

Lin