[Macpartners] Quark!!

[Tom Pixton]

Any Mac Quark supporters still left? I've been using both Quark 6.5  
and InDesign CS and CS2 for the past three years, now on Mac OS X. 
3.9. Just when I thought I had Quark figured out, another infuriating  
glitch renews my confidence in InDesign. Anyone still have the  
following problems?:

1) The dreaded "File not found [-51]" or "Can't find required volume  
[-48]".

Thought I had figured out how to get around these. Example: I have a  
qxd file previously worked on with no problem. I open the file to  
make some edits. I try to save and get one or both of those messages  
above. I've tried: changing the Layout name (as someone suggested).  
changing the file name, the location, making sure there were no  
connected network volumes (Quark gets "confused" I was told). I  
recently did the Mac OS latest system update, and now every Quark 6.1  
or 6.5 file I open gives me this message.

Yesterday, it was quicker to back save my project to Quark 5, open it  
in Quark 5, back save it to 4, boot Classic, open Quark 4, resave it  
in Quark 4, quick Classic and Quark and open the Quark 4 file in  
InDesign CS, and continue the project, rather than search online for  
the solution.

2) Trying to get Quark to make a pdf:

Quark's pdf maker is a disaster, and complex documents often won't  
write to PS if they contain many eps files. Tried for an hour to  
create a successful pdf of a 76-page book, and was only able to make  
one with unusably lo-rez images. Finally, I did my backsave routine  
above, reopened the thing in InDesign, which had no problem creating  
a beautiful pdf.

Anyone dared to upgrade to Quark 7? Should I bother? Thanks.