.cwk how to find all documents that are created by Claris Works and Apple Works

Hi!

I have these really old CW or AW documents too.

Do a finder search for com.apple.appleworks.document If you have some old pictures created in CW search for Quickdraw

Then I don't think you any more on the computer! Even the files saved in CW2 from 1995 show up on my computer.

You could go through your folder and sort them by Kind and see if any turns up.

Open a Finder window for your hard disk. Search on 'appleworks', clicking 'contents'. When you get the results click on the header for the 'kind' column to bring all the Appleworks documents together (you will probably get a lot of spurious results as well).

Roger, do think it is a localisation thing that it says Appleworks Document on your computer and com.apple.appleworks.document on mine? I will go to my test account which is in English and see.

The test showed I had quite a few named Appleworks document mostly newer AW docs, but some from the 90s too.

Mine would all be AW6 (probably) - I go back to 1993 and ClarisWorks 2 but of course would have converted each time I upgraded through to AW 5 and 6.

The real old ones doesn't have any file extension.

Both AW and CW use BOBO as the creator code for files. You could search for AW/CW files by creator code:

In Finder, open a Find window (Cmd-F).

Under Kind, select Other …, then Raw Query.

Next to Raw Query oval, put this case-sensitive search string in the box:

kMDItemFSCreatorCode=BOBO

It didn't work on my computer!

It does work for me on a MBP (running Snow Leopard) that is littered with AW and CW files dating back to the era of a PowerBook 3400.

I tried your string and I tried with only BOBO but none render any documents.

I did a test and changed the system language to english in my Test account. Then it worked with searching with the speciall string. I wonder how to write it in swedish??