eva_garcia56•25d agoProlific Poster

Warning: my project quote was way off because of a weird file format

Honestly, I thought converting a client's old print catalog to a website would take maybe two weeks, but their files were in some ancient desktop publishing format from 2003. Ngl, it took me a full month just to get the text and images out without losing everything. Has anyone else dealt with a legacy file mess that wrecked their timeline?

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hernandez.gavin24d agoMost Upvoted

Actually 2003 files are pretty recent. Try opening a QuarkXPress file from the 90s sometime.

river_gonzalez6624d ago

Come on, it's just an old file! @hernandez.gavin makes it sound like we're digging up fossils, but software can usually handle it. This feels like making a big deal out of nothing.

holly_williams12d ago

Have you ever actually tried to open a really old file format? Software changes fast and sometimes it just won't work, no matter what you try. You end up needing weird converters or hunting for old software versions, which is a huge time sink. It's not making a big deal out of nothing, it's avoiding a future headache. Some of those old files might as well be fossils because the tools to read them are extinct.