Any way to open AppleWorks .cwk files?

christopher rigby1 wrote:

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Roger Wilmut1 wrote:

christopher rigby1 wrote:

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Filemaker will withdraw Bento from sale on 30 September. They seem to consider that the hugely more expensive Filemaker Pro is an acceptable alternative.

I suppose not enough Mac users were buying Bento? The Mac version of FM Pro 12 - with Bento discount - is an eye-watering £131.

Yet FM Go for iPad - possibly the main market for Bento? - is FREE.

If only Bento had been as good as the database in AppleWorks! sigh!!!

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Thanks for the link - I've included a note about it in my 'Abandoning AppleWorks' article: I can't test it as it requires Lion or above (I'm on Snow Leopard) and anyway there is no free trial, but it looks promising though user reviews have thrown up a few limitations. It might well be a better bet at $24.99 for users with moderate reuirements than Filemaker Pro (which is really the only option for advanced users).

I am able to open CWK writer files using LibreOffice which is modern and free software availble for Mac, Windows and Linux.

http://www.libreoffice.org/

It would be nice to know why a perfectly fine program will not run anymore(Appleworks 6) now that we all have Mavericks. What a bunch of BULL . . .

Apple had decided it had reached the end of its useful like and that upgrading it was no longer worth their effort.

Allan

FtechUPgrades wrote:

It would be nice to know why a perfectly fine program will not run anymore(Appleworks 6) now that we all have Mavericks. What a bunch of BULL . . .

The trouble is that AppleWorks isn't 'perfectly fine' unfortunately - it's a PPC program and only ran in Snow Leopard because of Rosetta which enabled PPC programs to run on Intel. Rosetta has not been included in Lion and above - I believe there may be a contractual issue about that - and it's not practicable for Appleworks to be made to run in Intel: it would require a complete re-write from the ground up, and in any case the program was 'end of lifed' several years ago. iWork was positioned as a partial replacement.

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Thanks, that worked for me!

I was in the process of converting my old .CWK document files to Pages w/ my last version of Pages. Then I recently upgraded to Mavericks, which apparently upgraded my Pages. Imagine my horror when I could no longer open .CWK files - I got the dreaded message "Pages cannot open files of this type." With my hair standing on end, I did a search and thankfully found this post. I tried the "Open With" option and it opened the VERY OLD cwk files just fine. Not sure if this will work for other types of CWK files, but this option works fine for document/word processing files, even old ones.

Thanks. Appreciate this post.

That happened to me, in Snow Leopard, when I bought a brand new copy of iWork from eBay. I got that dreaded message.

That was Pages 4.0 - but when I upgraded to 4.0.4 via a free download from the Apple website, it opened AW files just fine.

@B in CA,

Pages '09 is ble to open AppleWorks 6 word processing docs, Numbers '09 is able to open AW 6 spreadsheet docs, and Keynote '09 is able to open AW presentation documents. If you 'upgrading' to the new versions of these does NOT remove the '09 versions. You will find them in a folder named iWork '09, located in your Applications folder.

Regards,

Barry

Hello everyone,

the free solution to open many old archives it's http://www.libreoffice.org

Enjoy it!

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