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parkrun run directors, do any of you process results on a Mac?

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fetcheveryone Mar 2016 2:58pm, 24 Mar 2016 17,116 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone Pretty much, yep. We are on it with parkrun HQ.
RichHL Mar 2016 7:13pm, 24 Mar 2016 11,279 posts	Quote Pin RichHL The basic kit includes a laptop or netbook. Yours seems to have wandered off somewhere.
KatieB Mar 2016 7:27pm, 24 Mar 2016 6,812 posts	Quote Pin KatieB This is all very interesting.
KatieB Mar 2016 7:29pm, 24 Mar 2016 6,813 posts	Quote Pin KatieB I really hope the ending is that we find out parkrun's netbook.
McGoohan Mar 2016 9:53pm, 24 Mar 2016 22,635 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Does this have 'moonlight flit' written all over it?
lozza Aug 2018 10:53am, 26 Aug 2018 349 posts	Quote Pin lozza I realise this thread is over two years old, but has anyone achieved using a mac for downloading and processing parkrun results? After much fiddling i can get both stopwatch and scanner to download to the mac, but the data formats are not what the result processing software is expecting. I do have the parkrun laptop, but it is slow and clunky and I'd rather use my featherweight MacBook air if I can...
fetcheveryone Aug 2018 11:21am, 26 Aug 2018 19,729 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone I did so in the very early days of my tenure - I had to do a bit of fiddling round with the format you’ve mentioned - probably a mix of Excel and Notepad. Soon after we got a parkrun laptop.
fetcheveryone Aug 2018 11:23am, 26 Aug 2018 19,730 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone If it helps, I can dig out a sample of the right format (although might not be for a few days)
lozza Aug 2018 11:25am, 26 Aug 2018 350 posts	Quote Pin lozza Thanks - I was hoping to avoid the fiddling - by the time I've done that the laptop would have surged into life In the olden days I would have broken out the java and written something.... but too lazy now.