j. alanfromstreet
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Q: Appleworks 6 wont open in Mavericks

Appleworks 6 Data Base (Business Cards) will not open using Mavericks. Nor will other AW 6 files open.  Apple sent me an Iworks 9 disk, but that doenot work either.

iMac (20-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 20, 2014 9:39 AM

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Q: Appleworks 6 wont open in Mavericks

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  • by Peggy,Helpful

    Peggy Peggy Aug 20, 2014 10:55 AM in response to j. alanfromstreet
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    Aug 20, 2014 10:55 AM in response to j. alanfromstreet

    AppleWorks 6 won't work on any OS later than Snow Leopard. You can open AppleWorks 6 word processing, spreadsheets & presentations in Pages 4, Numbers 2 & Keynote 5 or earlier respectively. The more recent versions cannot open any AppleWorks files. You cannot open any other type (draw, paint or database) of AppleWorks 6 documents with any iWork application nor can you open AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks documents. LibreOffice v4.3.1. It can open many, but not all, types of AppleWorks & ClarisWorks documents but not database.

     

    You will need access to a Mac that can run AppleWorks to open the database & can be copied & pasted into an AppleWorks spreadsheet, saved & opened in Numbers or saved as ASCII/plain text & opened in most any spreadsheet, database or word processing program. Since it is a business card database you may be better off printing it to a PDF.

     

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  • by fosnola,

    fosnola fosnola Aug 20, 2014 11:15 PM in response to Peggy
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    Aug 20, 2014 11:15 PM in response to Peggy

    Hello,

    in fact, LibreOffice v4.3.1 may be able to open some database documents(*): it does try to retrieve the content of the main database(**) and to open the result in Calc ( the spreadsheet module of LibreOffice ). But as I have very few database documents, this seems to work well with these files (which are very simple), but it is possible that this fails for more complex files :-~

     

    (*) actually, LibreOffice v4.3.1 must only refuse to convert the presentation documents. At least, if it does not mistype them, which may be rare but can happen for some ClarisWorks v1-v3 documents :-~

    (**) ie. only the text, number, time and date's records. Normally, it will create one row for each record while each column will correspond to a different field.

  • by j. alanfromstreet,

    j. alanfromstreet j. alanfromstreet Aug 22, 2014 7:19 AM in response to j. alanfromstreet
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    Aug 22, 2014 7:19 AM in response to j. alanfromstreet

    Thanks.  Looks like I am screwed since I do not have any of these programs.  Is there a easy way to delete Mavericks or reset programs to a date prior to Mavericks?

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Aug 22, 2014 7:21 AM in response to j. alanfromstreet
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    Aug 22, 2014 7:21 AM in response to j. alanfromstreet

    Restore the backup you made prior to upgrading to Mavericks.

  • by Peggy,

    Peggy Peggy Aug 22, 2014 1:07 PM in response to j. alanfromstreet
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    Aug 22, 2014 1:07 PM in response to j. alanfromstreet

    LibreOffice is a free application which you can download by clicking the link (in blue) in my previous post.

     

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  • by Jack Benlow1,

    Jack Benlow1 Jack Benlow1 Sep 21, 2014 4:15 PM in response to j. alanfromstreet
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    Sep 21, 2014 4:15 PM in response to j. alanfromstreet

    It may be of some interest that TextWrangler will open the text of Appleworks WP files.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Sep 21, 2014 11:41 PM in response to Jack Benlow1
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    Sep 21, 2014 11:41 PM in response to Jack Benlow1

    Jack Benlow1 wrote:

     

    It may be of some interest that TextWrangler will open the text of Appleworks WP files.

    So will TextEdit but it will include the formatting codes which should be invisible, making it a difficult job to extract the actual contents (which will be unformatted, of course).