[Framers] Framemaker 5.5

[Alan Litchfield]

Hi,

What are you using to host the VM?

Have you enabled the hypervisor to read usb devices?

I assume MyBackup is the name of your external usb device?

I don't know what actions you have taken when you "attempt to open 
MyBackup [and] get a list of very old programs". Are you referring to 
using the File>Open menu selection in FM5.5, or by double clicking on a 
file icon in the File Explorer?

If that latter, then I doubt that FM5.5 would have the ability to 
influence how the OS would respond to an onclick command.

I don't know what "very old programs" means, and that is relative anyway 
(especially for some of us). I assume we are still talking about actions 
taken in the VM.

In order to help, it may be better for you to remove the less relevant 
commentary and focus on the actual problem. Reading carefully between 
the lines, it appears you can't open FM files on the usb device from the 
VM. Correct?

If so, then this may not be a FM problem, but a Windows/VM/hypervisor 
problem.

Alan

On 21/03/17 12:30, David Klein wrote:
> I am a retired technical writer who cannot afford to upgrade to a later
> version.
>
> I have been using Framemaker to write my autobiography on an older computer
> running Windows XP. I purchased a newer computer running Windows 7
> Professional that has the ability to set up a windows virtual PC. I finally
> figured out the way to get it to work over the weekend, and installed
> Framemaker 5.5 and my Epson XP-420 printer. I am able to make a file and
> print it,
>
> The problem is trying to save the file so that I can integrate it with the
> many other files I have saved to a portable drive using my old XP computer.
>
> When I connect this drive to the Windows 7 it is fully recognized as a
> separate drive. When I open the files, the titles are shown. Of course,
> because the software is not recognized by Windows 7 Professional, the
> actual files are not shown.
>
> Here is the problem. When I am in wndows virtual PC and go to save a file
> in the portable drive I get the following: \\tsclient\J on Entire Network
> with MyBackup in the center. When I attempt to open MyBackup I get a list
> of very old programs with a question: Do I want to convert? I feel sure
> this is generated by Framemaker 5.5 because of the age of the programs. In
> other words it does not recognize Framemaker as an option.
>
> It seems I have no option to save a file generated within windows virtual
> PC to an external device. If there is a way, I would like to hear it.
> Thanks.
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