Jean-pierre Barsot
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Q: Batch conversion of AW docs to Pages and Number for Lion

I made over the years hundreds of documents with AW 5 and AW 6, (WP and SS). These are in dozens of different folders and subfolders on my HD.

 

I would like to upgrade to Lion but I understand that AW 5 documents can no longer be opened under Lion.

 

Going thru my hard disk to convert these files one at a time and file the converted document in the same folder as the original, would be very cumbersome.

 

Can someone help me with a script to automatically locate all AW 5 and AW 6 files on my HD, convert them to Pages or Number, and file the new document in the same location as the original ?

 

Help will be greatly appreciated.

Posted on Mar 19, 2012 3:56 AM

by KOENIG Yvan,Solvedanswer
KOENIG Yvan KOENIG Yvan
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A:

Officially, I'm on strike !

As I was asked by Roger, I quit my cave for a quick answer.

 

Go to my public BOX, (address below)

navigate to :

public_YK > for_iWork'09 > other_iWork'09 items

Download :

batch_WPSS2iWork.zip

 

These scripts are old so I don’t remember if they store the converted files in their original folder or in an other one.

 

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 19 mars 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3

My Box account  is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

Posted on Mar 19, 2012 9:38 AM

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Q: Batch conversion of AW docs to Pages and Number for Lion

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 19, 2012 9:26 AM in response to Jean-pierre Barsot
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    Mar 19, 2012 9:26 AM in response to Jean-pierre Barsot

    Yvan Koenig is the best person to answer this one: he has scripts available for doing this sort of thing. I've emailed him and asked if he can look at your post.

  • by KOENIG Yvan,Solvedanswer

    KOENIG Yvan Mar 19, 2012 9:38 AM in response to Jean-pierre Barsot
    Level 8 (41,790 points)
    Mar 19, 2012 9:38 AM in response to Jean-pierre Barsot

    Officially, I'm on strike !

    As I was asked by Roger, I quit my cave for a quick answer.

     

    Go to my public BOX, (address below)

    navigate to :

    public_YK > for_iWork'09 > other_iWork'09 items

    Download :

    batch_WPSS2iWork.zip

     

    These scripts are old so I don’t remember if they store the converted files in their original folder or in an other one.

     

    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 19 mars 2012

    iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3

    My Box account  is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

  • by Roger Wilmut1,Helpful

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 19, 2012 9:42 AM in response to Jean-pierre Barsot
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    Mar 19, 2012 9:42 AM in response to Jean-pierre Barsot

    Just to add: Pages can open AppleWorks 6 Word processing documents, but not Appleworks 5 - you would need to save them as AW 6 in AW first. Numbers can open AW spreadsheets. Nothing can open Paint or Database documents.

     

    Pages will run on Lion and open AW documents, but AW itself cannot be run on Lion.