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Posted by Listerene
Sep 6, 2019 at 12:33 PM
Personally, I use TreePad Biz for (just about) all my writing needs, business and creative. It’s a remarkable tool and I’m hoping that it’s not gone forever.
This development caught me by surprise and I’m in *desperate* need of their freeware TreePad Viewer app which allows others to view TreePad files. I (once) had a copy of it but (apparently) I no longer do and it doesn’t seem to be available from any repository that I could find.
Anyone have a copy of TreePad Viewer or have a link where I could find it? You’ll have my eternal gratitude if you can help me.
Posted by Arnold
Sep 6, 2019 at 08:04 PM
Listerene wrote:
>This development caught me by surprise and I’m in *desperate* need of
>their freeware TreePad Viewer app which allows others to view TreePad
>files. I (once) had a copy of it but (apparently) I no longer do and it
>doesn’t seem to be available from any repository that I could find.
>
>Anyone have a copy of TreePad Viewer or have a link where I could find
>it? You’ll have my eternal gratitude if you can help me.
You can download most files from the Wayback Machine (web archive site). Used the 2019 Feb as reference below.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190211155647/http://treepad.com/treepadviewer/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190223132036/http://www.treepad.com/conversion_utilities/
Of course with the Biz version you can export to HTML or RTF if the conversion utilities can not be found. Have to check which files I have downloaded locally.
I have many gig of data across many files from the last 15 plus years and while the application still works will not even try to migrate to something else. The portable USB ability makes work notes/instruction/ procedures second only to large binders of paper. Never fully trust computers/servers will be there when there is trouble (work in IT).
Posted by mseliger
Sep 6, 2019 at 08:42 PM
Another alternative to view and use the treepad files is the Cherrytree Software (Windows, Linux, Open-Source).
https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
This software can import treepad-files.
Posted by Listerene
Sep 6, 2019 at 09:21 PM
mseliger wrote:
Another alternative to view and use the treepad files is the Cherrytree
>Software (Windows, Linux, Open-Source).
>https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
>This software can import treepad-files.
Not well, unfortunately, at least not the complex file that I have. Same story with conversion utilities.
Posted by Listerene
Sep 6, 2019 at 09:50 PM
Thanks so much for the link; I hadn’t even considered the wayback machine but, thanks to you (and Firefox), I’ve got the file now.
Tried to download it with Chrome, incidently, but Google evidently thought it was infected and refused to download it. Yet another reason to hate Google; the file is fine. If they’re going to build an AV into their browser, they could at least use a competent AV.
Treepad’s demise is sad but it hasn’t really been improved for years and it still works very well. I expect that it’ll continue to work and meet my needs for at least the next decade or so. I’ve tried (just about) every alternative I could find over the years but TreePad just works so well that I’ve stuck with it.
About the only thing about it that *doesn’t* work well is the export/conversion of complexly-formatted files. That’s why I needed the viewer. I have one such file that I’ve been working on for months and I’d be up Poop Creek without that app. Thanks again