jimidakine
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Q: When I upgraded frm sno lepard to mtn lion I lost all appleworks files, is there a reasonable solution MBP mid2010?

All of my appleworks data files won't open in Mountain Lion and all my Nat'l Geographic Mapping DVDs are useless since my upgrade. Is there some workaround for these problems? Thanks

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), also can't use nat'l geo DVDs

Posted on Dec 2, 2013 9:55 PM

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Q: When I upgraded frm sno lepard to mtn lion I lost all appleworks files, is there a reasonable solution MBP mid2010?

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  • by hands4,Helpful

    hands4 hands4 Dec 2, 2013 10:11 PM in response to jimidakine
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    Dec 2, 2013 10:11 PM in response to jimidakine

    For Rosetta, as of Lion (10.7) the PowerPC compatibility "Rosetta" utility is no longer supported by Apple. 

     

    If you are willing to install Bootcamp or Parallels, you can run the Snow Leopard Server in parallel with Mountain Lion (10.8) and run the Rosetta-dependent applications on Snow Leopard.  You need to call Apple to order it.  You need the server version.

     

     

    Snow Leopard Server for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping costs at 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only). 

    Bootcamp (free). http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

    Parallels ($80): http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Dec 3, 2013 4:30 AM in response to jimidakine
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    Dec 3, 2013 4:30 AM in response to jimidakine
    • Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4* (AppleWorks 6 only) - the new Pages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. Panergy Software's docXConverter v3.2 ($19.95) can convert Appleworks 5 and 6 Word Processing documents to RTF (though it has been reported that it can only handle documents which contain only text, not those which include images or frames). The latest version of the free LibreOffice has announced that it can open AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents and an ability to open ClarisWorks documents has been reported: it does appear to be able to handle at least some embedded images.
    • Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more expensive version from their website, not the cheaper one from the Mac App Store, and you will need v4.0 'Retro' not the most recent version) or Intaglio (though this appears not to be able to handle very complex drawings).
    • Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in the older versions of  Numbers* - the new version for Mavericks will not do this.
    • Unfortunately nothing will open AppleWorks database files. You would have to be able to run AW and export as ASCII, then import into another program.

     

    *Previous versions of iWork can be still bought from Amazon, which would enable you to open some documents as indicated above.

     

    More information here:

     

    http://rfwilmut.net/aw

  • by hands4,

    hands4 hands4 Dec 3, 2013 7:24 AM in response to hands4
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    Dec 3, 2013 7:24 AM in response to hands4

    Edit:

    > If you are willing to install Bootcamp or Parallels

     

    I should have said if you install Snow Leopard on a separate partition or on a separate disk you can boot from it.  BootCamp is not used.  You can also use the Snow Leopard Server with Parallels.

  • by MlchaelLAX,

    MlchaelLAX MlchaelLAX Dec 3, 2013 9:30 AM in response to jimidakine
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    Dec 3, 2013 9:30 AM in response to jimidakine

    To further clarify, you can install Snow Leopard client into a new partition or external hard drive and use the "dual-booting" method to restore use of Appleworks and your DVDs.  Be sure to select the OPTIONAL install for Rosetta.

     

    More information on the Snow Leopard Server in Parallels method, here:

     

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

  • by jimidakine,

    jimidakine jimidakine Dec 5, 2013 10:29 AM in response to MlchaelLAX
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    Dec 5, 2013 10:29 AM in response to MlchaelLAX

    Is it possible to get Snow Leopard and install it on a seperate partition on my hard drive and just go with that? The other thing I'm thinking about is buying a refurb iMac running SnowLeopard and going from there? I wouldn't get much use out of Paralells.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Dec 5, 2013 10:57 AM in response to jimidakine
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    Dec 5, 2013 10:57 AM in response to jimidakine

    Yes, provided your hard disk has sufficient space you can partition it and use that as a boot partition, but you really must back up the drive first in case of problems, for which you will need an external drive anyway. Booting from a partition would be faster than an external drive. Drives aren't all that expensive these days, and certainly cheaper than a decent refurb Mac.

  • by Peggy,

    Peggy Peggy Dec 5, 2013 2:49 PM in response to jimidakine
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    Dec 5, 2013 2:49 PM in response to jimidakine

    I'd go with the external drive option. Even though I have multiple Macs running various versions of OS X, having an external drive makes it easy to move it to another Mac.

     

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