I just downloaded Mountain Lion and of course lost all my old appleworks programs or at least access to them. Is there an app for recovering these or a program or technique to recover them?

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I just downloaded Mountain Lion and of course lost all my old appleworks programs or at least access to them. Is there an app for recovering these or a program or technique to recover them?

I just downloaded Mt Lion update and of course lost all my old Appleworks saved data. Is there an app or a program or anything I can do to get them back and change them to Pages so I can once again view them. There is some very important documents and would be impossible to replace?

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Sep 29, 2012 3:33 PM

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thomas_r.

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Sep 29, 2012 3:50 PM in response to dbldoc

Pages, Numbers and Keynote can open the corresponding types of AppleWorks files. I believe there's something that opens the drawing files, though I don't recall what that might be... try Googling that one. Unfortunately, when it comes to AppleWorks databases, there's nothing else that can open them.

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Sep 29, 2012 4:42 PM in response to dbldoc

You would have to erase your hard drive and reinstall an earlier version of OS X that was compatible with those Apple Works programs and then iinstall those Apps and documents from your backup drive where you have backups of them.

Hope this helps 🙂

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Sep 29, 2012 11:46 PM in response to dbldoc

Please see this thread

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4366735

which give more details on compatibility and offers a possible solution which doesn't involve reformatting your drive.

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