Floppy Disk with Appleworks file?
Hello, I seem to have a bit of a problem on my hands... I have a floppy disk from an older, Classic-running computer with an appleworks document on it, and I'm currently working from a Macbook.
The guy at my apple store told me I had to get a USB floppy drive (which I got) and to try either finding a really old computer that was running something before OSX, or to try downloading sheepshaver on my current computer. Because, of ourse, the usb floppy drive won't connect to a system running OSX.
I found an old iMac that was running OS 9 and tried it on that, but it told me I had to "initialize the disk" when I put the floppy drive in. This is the only copy I have of this document, and didn't know what that meant, so I just took it out instead. Does anyone know what this means? Will it open my document after that, or will it delete it?
I also have been trying to use sheepshaver on my macbook, to see if I could run 9 and use it from that, but the instructions are all hideously complicated and all from like 5 years ago...
Anyone have any advice for me? I'm happy to try anything, but apparently I'm not savvy enough to work through the sheepshaver how to's...
Thanks so much!
The guy at my apple store told me I had to get a USB floppy drive (which I got) and to try either finding a really old computer that was running something before OSX, or to try downloading sheepshaver on my current computer. Because, of ourse, the usb floppy drive won't connect to a system running OSX.
I found an old iMac that was running OS 9 and tried it on that, but it told me I had to "initialize the disk" when I put the floppy drive in. This is the only copy I have of this document, and didn't know what that meant, so I just took it out instead. Does anyone know what this means? Will it open my document after that, or will it delete it?
I also have been trying to use sheepshaver on my macbook, to see if I could run 9 and use it from that, but the instructions are all hideously complicated and all from like 5 years ago...
Anyone have any advice for me? I'm happy to try anything, but apparently I'm not savvy enough to work through the sheepshaver how to's...
Thanks so much!
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
