Hello, I have a OLD Mac LC II with ragtime. Does anybody know how to convert the files to the PC ?

What's "Ragtime?" Text, graphics, spreadsheet, audio, video, database...? p

Ragtime is something like Microsoft WORD. I've got a LOT of files (mosty just plain text). And I want them on my PC. Please Help.

Do you still have the original program on the LC II? If not, you're outta luck. If so, try opening them and saving/exporting as RTF or Word 1.0 or WordPerfect 1.0 or some other format that might be PC-compatible. Feel free to give me the LC II as a thank-you :) p

Okay, Do you know a fast way 2 export about 5000 files?

Nope. Even if you had 5000 small files on a brand-new G4 or 2 GHz P4, you're not gonna export 'em all that fast. If the files are mostly text, and formatting itself doesn't matter that much, you could just copy 'em straight over to the PC and then import them as text. You might then be able to write a macro to clean up the junk a bit, which could save you some time. If the files are heavily formatted (lots of bold, underlined, or italic text styles, different line spacings, columns, etc), then you're basically outta luck - you're going to have to do it by hand. Unless all 5000 files are VERY important, I would advise just keeping the LC II around and using it to view/export the files individually as you need them instead of trying to do all 5000 at once. You'll likely surprise yourself by how little you actually need a lot of those files if they're as old as you say they are. p