Will appleworks function if I upgrade to os 10.6 or higher?

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Will appleworks function if I upgrade to os 10.6 or higher?

I am currently using an Imac with OS 10.5.8. I use appleworks quite a bit and have thousands of files created with this program. I have heard that if I upgrade to 10.6 or higher that appleworks will not be supported. I can not afford to lose these files, but yet my current systems puts me at a disadvantage in many other areas (specifically the internet, browsers, etc). Can anyone help with this? I use these files almost everyday for work and I don't want to have to redo them in another application.

iMac (20-inch Early 2008), os 10.5.8

Posted on Aug 19, 2014 7:01 PM

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Niel

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Aug 19, 2014 7:06 PM in response to leonardo35

AppleWorks 6 is supported in Mac OS X 10.6.8 but not in 10.7 and newer.

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Aug 20, 2014 4:45 AM in response to leonardo35

Snow Leopard (10.6.x) is a considerable improvement over 10.5 but you will find that it is falling behind and some web sites won't work properly, at least in Safari (FireFox is more up to date and handles them better). It is also apparently not being supported any more. However it will run AppleWorks perfectly well - the last system which will do so.

You might like to look at my article on 'Abandoning AppleWorks' which will give you some pointers for the future including a way of continuing to run AppleWorks on a later system:

http://wilmut.uk/aw

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