files, jaguar vs. panther

[Tacit]

>Friend of mine bought a used laptop from another friend. It has some
>version of 10.2 on it. It also has some files on it that were
>apparently created with 10.3 ("a later version of the os") and he can't
>open them.

What kind of files?

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"Ed Reppert" <erep...@rochester.rr.invalid.com> wrote in message
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> Friend of mine bought a used laptop from another friend. It has some
> version of 10.2 on it. It also has some files on it that were
> apparently created with 10.3 ("a later version of the os") and he can't

> open them. any idea how to fix this, short of upgrading the os on the
> laptop?

Files aren't really created by the OS, they're created by applications.
Figure out which application created them and make sure the same revision of
the application is on both systems.

Greg