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OmniOutliner3, Omnishadow and Shadow on palm - help please

I am trying to get Omnioutliner to export my outlines to ShadowPlan on my palm. I installed Omnishadow and all went well. I am using Omnioutliner3 Pro (demo) since the non-Pro version is what came on my Mac and I read the Pro version is needed. When I have an OO outline open in front of me, I go to the applescript menu, select the "Shadow-Plan Save" option to try to export the outline and nothing happens except for a tone sounds. I look and there is no file in the "Files to Install" directory of the Palm user directory. In fact, I cannot find a file of the name of the OO file anywhere except for the original. No pdb, xml, or other file is exported anywhere. I emailed the author of Omnishadow but have had no reply to date (and he is clear that the scripts are not necessarily supported). I verified the Omnishadow prefs 3x. Questions:

-Does OO3 Pro need to be registered for this to work?
-Is Omnishadow currently working under 10.4.8? Is is broken? (has been before, right?)
-Do I need to save the outline as Shadow xml, import it into ShadowPlan desktop, save it as a Shadow RAW to the "Files to Install" directory? If this is how it is supposed to work then I don't see the point of the "Shadow-Plan Save" option in the applescript menu.
-Is this currently working for anyone?

Any ideas?

Thanks very much...

TOPICS: Mac OS X
writerati's picture

hold on a second...

I just had a thought...

Apparently some people (like me) are having this problem with the OmniShadow "Save" function, while others say it works fine.

JoeJ: Is your copy of Shadow Desktop registered? Mine isn't, and I'm getting the error.

I wonder if this would work if I were using a registered copy? The OmniShadow home page states that the script "requires you to have a licensed copy of the Shadow Desktop for part of the background conversion."

That might be our problem. Can anyone confirm this? Forgive me if I'm hesitant to slap down some $ to register and test this theory. =)

 
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