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Finding files made by old AppleWorks that Pages can't open

How can I locate these files so I can update them?

I can't upgrade to Lion until this is done.


The only way to upgrade them is to open them In Appleworks and save them.

Thus saved, Pages will open them in Snow Leopard and Lion.


But if I wait till upgrading to Lion, I can't run Appleworks as it is a PPC/Rosetta application.




pete

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.4 Gz 8-core

Posted on Apr 1, 2012 5:36 AM

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Apr 1, 2012 6:26 AM in response to peterlemer

How can I locate these files so I can update them?


I've written a a small program called Sidekick that will help you with this. One of the program's free features is "Compress AppleWorks". This feature was designed to help move AppleWorks from one Mac to another. It compresses (zips) AppleWorks and importantly, will display a Finder window listing all AppleWorks documents on your Mac.


http://dalegillard.com/sidekick.html


If you want to do the search yourself, create a Smart Folder from the Finder and configure it to search whatever drive you want where the Kind is "com.apple.appleworks.document".

Apr 1, 2012 8:41 AM in response to Dale Gillard

Hi Dale :-)


> create a Smart Folder ... where the Kind is "com.apple.appleworks.document"


great! I get 3,697 items which comprise the following species:


o AW docs that open in Pages

o AW spreadsheets that open in Numbers

o AW docs that don't open in Pages

o AW spreadsheets that don't open in Numbers.


these last 2 will never open in Lion/Mountain Lion unless I can convert them while still in Snow Leopard.


Short of trying each of the 3697 individually ( well OK, there is a rough date boundary but it isn;t a straight one) I'd like a way to sort the readable from the unreadable, then batch convert the latter.


pete


Apr 2, 2012 2:15 AM in response to peterlemer

Hi Dale - I downloaded Sidekick and launched it, I got a brief window with instructions but it closed quickly and I can't see Sidekick anywhere, although Activity Monitor says that it's running. It isn't in my dock.


It won't appear in the Dock. Sidekick's a menu bar application that only displays an (AppleWorks) icon in your Mac's menu bar.


What should happen is that you click the AppleWorks icon in the menu bar, click Compress AppleWorks and this zips AppleWorks and opens a Finder window listing all your AppleWorks documents.

Apr 2, 2012 2:42 AM in response to peterlemer

great! I get 3,697 items which comprise the following species:

o AW docs that open in Pages

o AW spreadsheets that open in Numbers

o AW docs that don't open in Pages

o AW spreadsheets that don't open in Numbers.

these last 2 will never open in Lion/Mountain Lion unless I can convert them while still in Snow Leopard.


I don't follow what you're saying. All AppleWorks 6 WP and SS documents will open in Pages and Numbers. Do you mean that you have AppleWorks document created by AppleWorks 5 that won't open in iWork?


If so, there's no way to differentiate an AW 6 document from an AW 5 document. All I can suggest is trying to limit how many documents you need to check by limiting the Smart Folder you created earlier by date.


AppleWorks 6 was released early 2000 (May?). So if you create a Smart Folder that searches for a Kind of "com.apple.appleworks.document" and a Created Date before 1 July 2000 then this should list all AppleWorks 5 documents. Granted, you will have opened some of them since then, but this should greatly reduce the number (hopefully!)

Nov 18, 2012 1:14 PM in response to Dale Gillard

Hi Dale - I've finally bitten the bullet and paid for Mountain Lion, which is currently downloading.


I have followed suggestions here and I have 580 Appleworks WP and Spreadsheet files that are doomed in Mountain Lion unless I can find a way to update them.


580!


The best workflow I have found so far is:


1. highlight the first file in search results.

2. go to filepath footer and click 'open enclosing folder'

3. doubleclick the file - and AW opens

4. 'Save as'

5. using file menu navigate to enclosing folder

6. Click 'Save'.


I would have to do this 580 times!


I need a magic bullet!


anyone??????


pete

Nov 19, 2012 10:29 AM in response to peterlemer

Wow, Peggy - geat link! though they're not designed for OSX !0.8. I'll tty this once I have easy acces to 10.6. again.


MichaelLAX: if your suggestion works, ( I've no reason to believe it won't but your suggestion took me by surprise :-)) then this is definitely the way to go.


fruhulda: I mistakenly thought I could partition my HD /after/ I'd upgraded, but then Micheal's idea took me back to the differences betw Parallels and using Boot Camp for Wndows and I think P7 is the way to go


thanks all. I feel a lot better - hope springs....


:-)


pete

Finding files made by old AppleWorks that Pages can't open

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