cpragman
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Q: Help finding all AppleWorks 4 files

Before we start installing a bunch of Lion computers in our office, I need to go on a search to locate all our old AppleWorks 4 files and convert them to something that Pages can open (ex., AppleWorks 6).

 

I'm wondering if there is some kind of metadata I can search on using mdfind or mdls that would identify a file as being AppleWorks 4, or whether there is a string within the file I can grep on to identify them.

 

I have thousands of files to do this with, so any way of automating it would be helpful.

 

Thanks. 

G4 MDD, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 3, 2011 4:32 PM

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  • by Peggy,

    Peggy Peggy Dec 3, 2011 6:34 PM in response to cpragman
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    Dec 3, 2011 6:34 PM in response to cpragman

    There is no such thing as AppleWorks 4. AppleWorks is the name Apple gave ClarisWorks 5 when it took it back "in-house" at version 5.0.3 around 1998.

     

    Since AppleWorks 6 was released in March, 2000, you could do a search for files with a creation date before then as a starting point. If you didn't update to AppleWorks 6 until later you could use that date.

     

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  • by mns579,

    mns579 mns579 Dec 4, 2011 11:07 AM in response to cpragman
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    Dec 4, 2011 11:07 AM in response to cpragman

    I made some notes on using a Find (Cmd-F) Raw Query to locate AW/CW files here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3316823.  The discussion covers using Find on the type and creator codes attached to AW/CW files, though I can't tell you how to distinguish a file created with, say, AW6, from a file created with CW4.  There are likely some small differences in the first few bytes of the file header, but I haven't investigated (and don't have enough old CW files on hand) to know for certain.