When I try to open my ancient Appleworks 6 documents I get the message:
" You cannot open the application Appleworks 6 because PowerPC applications are no longer supported"
Is there ANY way I can retrieve them?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iMac, MacBook, Iphone3G
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote can open AppleWorks 6 word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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I know they are SUPPOSED to do so Niel, but when I go to nPages (08) and try to so, Iget the message:
FILENAME.cwk is not a word processing document
But it is ... and always was!!
Could you send me one of these files? I'll open it with AppleWorks 6 & let you know what it is. Click on my name in blue next to this post & you'll find my e-mail address in the biography section.
Thank you for your kind offer Peggy. The offending files were created on a DataBase, so they could not be opened in Pages. As you can see from my reply to the original post, I have now found a way out of the mire!
Here's a solution.
With no thanks to Apple, ( who effectively told me I was on my own, having installed Lion and rendered my iMac unable to open my AppleWorks documents).
Files created as DataBase documents in Apple Works cannot be opened in Pages.
The only way I could retrieve my AppleWorks documents was to transfer the AppleWorks 6 file (the entire file,in its delineated folder), from the Hard Drive of the iMac to my MacBook, via Firewire.
Then to transfer the AplleWorks documents from the iMac to the MacBook, via the same route.
Then to install Bento on both computers.
Then to set up a project/database in Bento which reproduced the format of my AppleWorks documents.
Then to copy and paste the entire content of the AppleWorks document to the newly-created Bento document.
Then to transfer the Bento file from the MacBook back to the iMac.
Needless to say, it works only patchily because of the discrepancy in the content etc ... but at least I now have a hard copy of the original material and, in Bento, a n up-to-date amethod of creating a new filing system.
The moral? Check before you download Lion ... back up everything precious ... or save yourself a whole lot of grief by refusing to be seduced by the ads and just stick with what works already!
At this time, most of the mac running are able to support 10.6.8 so the easy way to treat your problem is to install 10.6.8 on an external HD.
Boot from it when you want to access AppleWorks files.
As I don't know the way you are using the AppleWorks Database tool, it's difficult to help you.
If you used all its power, even FileMaker would be unable to replace some features (but it will offer a lot of extraneous ones).
If you use a bare subset of features (mainly if you don't use the calculation features), you may look among the Database only tools available here and there.
I can't guess how they may be but I know that some users are happy with Bentoy.
You may look at :
iDatabase :
http://www.apimac.com/company/2011/01/14/the-new-apimac-idatabase-2-0-for-mac-is -here/
iList Data :
http://www.lakewoodstudios.com/
MagicBase :
http://magicbase.mac.informer.com/
but for this late one, given the number of users reported I'm not sure that we may trust upon it.
There is also a powerful database tool available in LibreOffice but it requires a serious learning process.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 9 janvier 2011 16:50:22
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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How can I retrieve Appleworks 6 docs in Lion?
