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Arnie M Author

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iWork from old to new Mac, problem occurred.

Greetings,

iWork I have bought years ago on CD and installed on MB-Pro.

Now I have a MB-Air.

Since the Air has no CD/DVD player I transferred iWork from Pro to Air.

Starting up Pages (i.e.) on the Air I get this message:

I can't find the installer (also through a search. iWork search gives: iWork folder containing: Keynote, Numbers, Pages apps)

The DVD player of the Pro is broken.

I rather not repurchase or buy an update.

I rather not Download due expenses ($40.00 per GB) (Sitting in a cafe or neighbour i.e. to Download is not an option)

Is there a solution to get iWork working properly from this situation?

Thanks!

Posted on Apr 9, 2012 6:42 PM

20 replies

Peggy

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Oct 4, 2012 9:36 AM in response to quochuy

veesbee

Level 1

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Feb 21, 2013 6:02 PM in response to quochuy

@ quochuy: this worked for me. Thanks.

Jul 12, 2013 9:35 AM in response to quochuy

This worked for me as well. I also needed to copy over:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork09.Installer.plist

Once I added this, it fired right up!

Thanks!

BMcRaeC

Level 1

24 points

Aug 14, 2013 7:12 AM in response to quochuy

This process worked for me. I copied over everything from the two Library folders related to iWork '09, and Pages launched immediately, with the correct registration, and prompted me to upgrade to the latest version of iWork, for iOS 7 support. That's happening now.

Nov 15, 2013 11:18 AM in response to BMcRaeC

I copied over everything recommended here in terms of the app software and the application support files into the computer library: iMacHD/Library/Application Support/iWork"09. Didn't copy the plistlist though, still didn't work, instead giving me an err message and some type of crash report when I attempted to open both Pages and Numbers. Err message recommended doing a reinstall from the Apple installer package.

I found the installer for Apple iWork 9.3, which is really an updater ( my App store did not show any update options for any of my iWork 09 component apps.)

The latter installer can be downloaded directly at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1563

The installer worked to correctly update my copied Pages and Numbers software -- err free. Both Pages and Numbers now open correctly on my iMac using OS 10.8.5, although Keynote does not open pending an install specifcally for Keynote I guess.

iWork from old to new Mac, problem occurred.