I just got a new laptop, and have OmniOutliner 4 (4.6.1). I am trying to work with an existing document left over from my older laptop, which is in .oo3 format - and I can’t get the column headers to appear so that I can resize them. I’ve tried changing the setting in the View menu, but they just aren’t coming up.
I see I can get an upgrade to Pro 5, but this costs a lot of money, and the above is evidently a bug… right? I don’t really feel like paying £100 to fix a bug.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a fix for this?
It sounds like you upgraded your operating system to a newer version that isn’t fully compatible with OmniOutliner 4, which originally shipped 12 years ago (in January of 2014) for macOS 10.9 (OS X Mavericks).
First, to clear up a misconception in that final sentence, we never charge full price to customers who have already licensed our apps: we always make the latest versions available at a 50% discount to existing customers (i.e. at half price).
Yes, that’s a bug in the operating system’s compatibility with earlier versions of itself. Apple could fix it, but they’re unlikely to. We do update all of our apps every year to fix compatibility issues with the operating system updates that ship each year. But those fixes are always for the latest version of the app—and OmniOutliner 5 shipped nearly nine years ago, so OmniOutliner 4 is missing a lot of those updates!
Many thanks for clearing that up! I guess I need to upgrade to OO 6.
I understand, of course, that the OS does change sometimes and create incompatibilities, and I don’t blame Omni Group for what is Apple’s fault. I do get very frustrated about it though. The laptop that just died and prompted this chain of events was a 2013 Macbook Air, and physically was in good shape until that happened, so I was kind of oblivious to how much of the software on it was really old. I’m tired of running to keep up… I have several computer-based hobbies (music, video, photography, writing) and have three separate machines at home, all running different types of software. This creates constant headaches of this type, as you can probably imagine! Such are the tribulations of multi-channel creatives… ah well.
Anyway, no hard feelings, as I said already - and Happy New Year!
