Hi Bert,
The trouble is that when you switch EMRS, you aren't just walking away from a car that you don't like and buying a different model.
You might as well expect GM, Volkswagen, and Toyota to spend billions working together so that their cars all use the same pistons, transmissions, and engine blocks in case you want to swap them into a competitor's vehicle.
Hell, even the spark plugs are different most of the time.
Interchangeable data or parts would be nice on incredibly complicated databases or automobiles . . .
But it's not gonna happen.
Cars and EMRs may do much the same thing, but each one was built from the ground up and therefore uses its own peculiar parts or data structures.
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Think about Windows and Apple.
Christ, half the time an attempt to copy a photo from an iPhone to a PC for storage produces a mysterious 0-byte file.
And attempts to mass-copy photos mysteriously skip half the selected photos.
Complaints on the internet about this ridiculous problem stretch back to the crack of doom.
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Which leads to something useful, as opposed to a mere rant on my part.
A few months ago, I gave up and bought the third program that I've paid for in nearly forty years.
It lets me copy files back and forth from iPhone to PC so I can synch the roughly one thousand books in my ever-growing library, copy my endless photos without losing my temper, and make real backups of an iPhone.
Much like JamesNT custom-extracting AC patient records as PDFs, someone had to write a whole program just to make simple file transfers work between two competing computer worlds.
If anyone is curious, the iPhone-x-Windows two-way transfer-program that made me happy is iMazing. Works like a charm.
For small transfers (yeah, some of you don't take thirty photos on a morning walk or keep a thousand books on your cell phone), the free version of SendAnyWhere works, too, and is very handy for printing iPhone reminder files as PDFs to a PC, where you can use a real keyboard to work on your notes.
(Aaargh! I wondered if I was boasting--really, a thousand books? A quick check shows 3,130 files in 174 sub-folders in my 8.8gb library folder. Things must have grown while I wasn't paying attention. This is embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as the number of photos and videos, which I don't have the courage to count.)
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
