Q: Need to reinstall ClarisWorks 4.0
I had a lot of AppleWorks documents on a blue G3 running 10.3.9. Some of them had been created when I had ClarisWorks 4.0, but I had upgraded to AW 6; yet if I clicked on one of the older ones, AW6 would still open it. I would just get a message saying that 'it had been created with an older version, and if I saved any changes it would add the suffix v6 to the file'. Usually I was not making changes, just reading; therefore many of these I did not bother to re-save. AND NOW....I have an iMac running 10.6.5. I installed AW 6 on it and it works, and will open documents I created with AW 6 on the G3. BUT!!! It seems that the older documents will no longer open to be read, not even with the warning about older version. Instead, if I click on any of them, AppleWorks just "unexpectedly quits". (This happens on the G3 also; probably since I upgraded it to 10.3.9.) So I guess what I need is to somehow reinstall AW 4.0 on the G3 or the iMac, so that I can open these files at least long enough to save them with v6. Unfortunately my 4.0 install discs are floppies, and neither of these computers has a floppy drive. SO, can anyone here tell me where I might be able to download AW 4.0? Or can anyone suggest another way for me to access the older documents with what I've got?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Posted on Aug 25, 2011 11:28 AM
Since it is AppleWorks 6.2.4 you would not have the I/O error of 6.2.9, so forcing it to open in Classic isn't necessary.
It could be that the files are corrupt. Could you send me a couple & I'll see what I can do on my G5 running Tiger & Classic with AppleWorks 6 & AppleWorks 5. That should help narrow down the issues & possible fixes. Click my name in blue next to this post & you can find my e-mail address in the biography section.
Posted on Aug 25, 2011 8:54 PM