opening old notebook files

[Rob Jacklin]

HI everyone,

I have a teacher who was looking to open some old notebook files (9.0) that will not open in new versions (10.7, or 10.8). The error says something about not converting a legacy file. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rob

[Lloyd Summers]

Hi Rob,

 

I've seen some files struggle.  How many files do they have? 

I put together an internal tool at SMART that can still convert most of those old file types.  But it isn't stable enough, friendly enough or pretty enough for public distribution.  (Partially because I'm not a developer at SMART).  I put it together based on how our work computers are designed.

 

But we can usually convert most of those on a case-by-case basis.  But if there are a lot we would probably need to think a bit more outside of the box.  But if we can see the files at SMART, we can most likely convert them.

 

Lloyd

[Lloyd Summers]

Windows Tip:

 

You can manually unpack the file by hand.  Most likely only one or two parts weren't unpacking and they probably aren't critical.

 

C:\Program Files\SMART Technologies\Education Software\NBKFileConverter.exe (filename) (folder_to_unpack_to)

 

Once it finishes, browse into the folder you specify above. 

Control+A to select all

Right click and select Send To ... Compressed (zipped) Folder

When .ZIP is finished compressing, rename the filename.zip to filename.notebook.

[Amber Smith]

What do you mean by this part:

C:\Program Files\SMART Technologies\Education Software\NBKFileConverter.exe (filename) (folder_to_unpack_to)

I understand the rest of the directions, just not sure what that part means. Thanks!

[Ian Berg]

This command line has you run NBKFileConverter.exe to unpack the Notebook file specified by (filename) and copy the results to a specified folder.   An alternative to this process which I like is to open a problem Notebook file with WinRAR and run WinRAR's Repair Archive process.  This creates a Rebuild file, and I can change its extension from .rar (or .zip) to .notebook.

[Rob Jacklin]

Thanks for the responses everyone! I am just now able to get back to the post.

I'm getting really three behaviors that are specifically troubling with the upgrade from 10 to 11:

1. With some users, not all, but some users files are defaulting to Read-Only (I'll double check inherited file permissions on a server though)

2. Notebook 11 loads VERY slowly on our machines. I'm not sure if that is an issue our machines? We recently upgraded from Windows 7 32-bit to 64-bit, maybe that is an issue.

3. Formatting from files created in 10 is very messed up. (Text boxes are elongated and haven't maintained define parameters; font styles changed--issues with displaying fractions; general layout of pages was not maintained).

I completely understand that these are potentially three unrelated issues and are worthy of their own posts :-)

I'll troll the forums some more to see if anyone else is having these issues as well!

Thanks again for taking to time respond and reply!