Any way to open AppleWorks .cwk files?

Yes, if your Mac can natively install, boot and run Snow Leopard (purchased before July, 2011):

Always do a complete backup or clone before any of the following:

1) If Snow Leopard is already installed, partition your hard drive or add an external drive and install Mavericks there. Do not install Mavericks over Snow Leopard, as that will destroy your Snow Leopard environment. Use the "dual-boot" method (System Preferences:Startup Disk) to determine which OS X, Snow Leopard or Mavericks, you boot into.

2) If you have already installed Mavericks over Snow Leopard, restore your Snow Leopard backup or clone and follow the directions in Step 1).

3) If you have already installed Mavericks over Snow Leopard and cannot restore your Snow Leopard backup or clone, follow the instructions in Step 1) but instead of Mavericks, install Snow Leopard (with the optional Rosetta) into the new partition or drive and install Appleworks (and other PowerPC apps) there.

These "dual-boot" solutions do not allow you to run Appleworks concurrently with Mavericks. If you desire to do so, follow my linked instructions in my post above to install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels to provide this capability.

Roger:

Check out this thread. There seems to be some work on a LibreOffice plug-in that will allow it to open Appleworks spreadsheets and perhaps drawing files as well as its ability to natively open word processing files!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6211334

That'll be interesting if they can get it to work better than Paint does at the moment.

... and of course the "nothing" that opens up spreadsheet files at the moment, either! 😁

Hello Roger and all,

if you want to do some testing, it is always possible to download the standalone application, mwawOSX(*) in http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmwaw/files/ .

Concerning the spreadsheet's and the database's conversion, it only tries to retrieve the cells/reports' content(**) and formatting of the main spreadsheet/database.

(*) I try to compile regulary a new version with "-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -arch i386 -arch x86_64", so I excepted that it will work on most Macs.

(**) ie. the text, the number and the formula but it does not try to retrieve any embedded button/graphic/video/... or any embedded chart/frame/filter/report...

(***) if you want to "simplify/comment/make more lisible" the AppleScript which launchs the executable, you are welcome...

The thinking is with regard to the following situations:

1) A longtime Appleworks spreadsheet and database user sees the new Dialog Box that comes up from the App Store update and offers him a "free" upgrade to Mavericks with the only option "Details." Having reviewed the Details, this user upgrades and to their horror discovers that they can no longer access their Appleworks spreadsheets nor databases in Mavericks.

2) Another longtime Applewoks user's Mac fails and they purchase a new Mac that can only run Mavericks, migrate their data over to this new Mac and to their horror discover that they can similarly no longer access their Appleworks files.

Their only option, at least in the database situation, is to open the database file in Appleworks to EXPORT the data for IMPORT into another database, such as Filemaker.

For the first example, their solutions are:

a) Revert to Snow Leopard

b) Revert to Snow Leopard and install Mavericks in a new partition or external drive and "dual-boot"

c) Run Appleworks in Snow Leopard Server installed in virtualization, such as Parallels

For the second example, their only solution is c)

So if there is a new plug-in/stand-alone module for LibreOffice that can accomplish the desired result, it would be helpful to know that so as to add it to the list of solutions.

So when you say:

Concerning the spreadsheet's and the database's conversion, it only tries to retrieve the cells/reports' content(**) and formatting of the main spreadsheet/database.

Will this conversion provide satisfaction in these situations?

Hello,

So if there is a new plug-in/stand-alone module for LibreOffice that can accomplish the desired result, it would be helpful to know that so as to add it to the list of solutions.

So when you say:

Concerning the spreadsheet's and the database's conversion, it only tries to retrieve the cells/reports' content(**) and formatting of the main spreadsheet/database.

Will this conversion provide satisfaction in these situations?

The main purpose of libmwaw ( one of the http://www.documentliberation.org projects ) is to convert many old mac forgotten formats and files. After clearly, there are soo many formats to work on and it is very hard to find old files to build some correct test bases, that things can only move slowly and unexpected problems are difficult to foreseen...

For giving satisfaction, even if we try do to what we can, this clearly depends on the files(*) and on the user (**).

After this is a open source project, it is free, anybody can provide feedback, improvements..., so it is a little to the users to test and see if this is ok for their need and to report the issues if not :-)

(*) for instance, if the files contains only a basic spreadsheet/database, probably. Now if the database/spreadsheet is only a small part of the document, clearly not....

(**) some want perfection, others can be very content even if only the text of a document without any formating is retrieved, ...

Hi fosnola, I need ur help pls

Hello Kairudeen,

Kairudeen wrote:

Hi fosnola, I need ur help pls

difficult to help with so little information :-~ What is the problem ?

I was trying to sign in to iCloud with my Apple ID, but it doesn't accept. Meantime when I try to create a new id, I get a message as "this device has created maximum number of free accounts and not letting me to creat a new one. Please help me to creat an iCloud account :(

Is it possible to create an iCloud account from another apple ipad device and use back in my device?

Hello,

this forum and thread concern AppleWorks, an office suite which was sold by Apple some years ago: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks .

Concerning iCloud and the count's management, sorry, but I know almost nothing about it ; I can only hope that you will have more interesting answers on the other threads where you post a similar message...

Answered to another of your several post on this. You have posted in around five separate places. Please don't.

Kairudeen - do the posting about iCloud in the iCloud forum, please! Hint: It will not help if you create new IDs all the time. Stick to just one.

fruhulda,

Thanks for the advice. LibreOffice seems to do a great job. Meanwhile I've ordered an older version of Pages (iWork) to see if the transfers are any easier or more accurate.

Why would Apple break the newer Pages? Just to get us to throw out all the old? Not an Apple-like behavior! Seems more like a Windoze move to me. Maybe they've been infiltrated by old Microsoft employees.

NeoOffice works for me. I have the latest Pages (5.2) but it will not open the older (2001) .cwk files.

A .cwk opens in NeoOffice, using the Western Europe (Apple Macintosh) Character Set, when prompted.

Crazy, but a two (2) page document opens as a 93 page document. After looking at lots of pages like this[

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the original in there on pages 72 and 73.