I now have a MacBook Pro with OS 10.8.4. I have found some old MacDraw and MacWrite documents from my old computer. Does anyone know of any software I can use to open these old files in OS 10.8.4.
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Hello,
On the MacDraw files...
EasyDraw...
http://www.eazydraw.com/MacDraw.htm
GraphicConverter...
On MacWrite, I don't know, wish I had one to test on several Apps.
Thanks very much. I'll give it a try.
I did some MacWrite conversions to Pages yesterday. I had some old records from 1989 to 1995 that were in ClarisWorks and MacWrite formats.
Pages would not open any files except AppleWorks 6. I had to convert by opening the MacWrite files in Claris Works and saving as CW files. I then I opened and saved the CW files as AppleWorks with AppleWorks 6. Now Pages could open and save the file as .pages.
This gets pretty involved as you need older computers to run the applications capable of converting the files. Luckily I have an iBook G4 with OS X 10.7.11 and Classic environment which did the most work.
dalstott wrote:
Luckily I have an iBook G4 with OS X 10.7.11 and Classic environment which did the most work.
I think you mean an iBook G4 with OS X 10.4.11...?
Good catch Mike. To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer. đ
Hi,
I found EasyDraw opened several of the files. Graphic converter not so good. I found an appplication called Intaglio which also helped.
Thank you soo much.
Also, Appleworks 6.2.9 running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels 8 should open many of these files:
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Hello,
I am not familiar with Pages or Claris Works or Apple Works. I've been searching the web. I think you are right...I need to get an old computer to open them or just consider them no good.
Thank You for your help.
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