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by James
Wed May 21, 2014 4:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion & Support
Topic: For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager
Replies: 35
Views: 23341

Re: For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager

H'lo Felix, Thank you for your gracious offer to convert our .ask files. We now have all the files in our new install of MyInfo. Well done, and thank you! We have reviewed all the files...er, Topics, and they appear quite serviceable. We added one link that was originally in the AskSam "file,&q...
by James
Wed May 14, 2014 3:48 am
Forum: General Discussion & Support
Topic: For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager
Replies: 35
Views: 23341

Re: For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager

mfelix and petco, Thank you for following up. All we have are native ASK files recovered from the old machine, which will not start, so no exports. We open .ask in Notepad and save as .txt. We did not pay sufficient attention to the plugin documentation, but now we understand about the .ini file. So...
by James
Fri May 09, 2014 7:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion & Support
Topic: For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager
Replies: 35
Views: 23341

Re: For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager

The AskSam plugin requires files exported from AskSam with an .ini file. We are not able to export from AskSam (old machine crashed, and now we're on Windows 8.1). On a chance, we saved an .ask file to .txt (.ask files opened in Notepad have the text in between all the AskSam control characters) and...