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Q: How to open an Appleworks 6 file in Mavericks

Is there any way to open an Appleworks 6 Database file in Mavericks?

MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Dec 9, 2014 3:45 PM

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Q: How to open an Appleworks 6 file in Mavericks

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Dec 9, 2014 3:46 PM in response to pgainer
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    Dec 9, 2014 3:46 PM in response to pgainer

    I don't think so. But you might try using the DBM component in Libre Office.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Dec 10, 2014 5:23 AM in response to Kappy
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    Dec 10, 2014 5:23 AM in response to Kappy

    The free LibreOffice has a better chance at opening an AW 6 database file than anything else on OS X Mavericks. LibreOffice has an included database package called Base, and PDF documentation for it, and other LibreOffice components is available. If you have other ClarisWorks/AppleWorks 5/6 documents, feed them to LibreOffice too.

     

    When you click on the LibreOffice download button, it will switch to an (optional) donation page, before resuming the download. Installation is entirely into your /Applications folder as the LibreOffice application. The first time you want to run LibreOffice, right-click on it in the /Applications folder and select open. Afterwards, it will launch with a double-click, or a single-click, if you have dragged/dropped it on your dock.

     

    Drag and drop your AW 6 database onto the LibreOffice application icon, and see what results are obtained.

     

    If this doesn't work for you, the only other recourse is to use AppleWorks 6 (latest) itself, either within a Virtual Machine (see Michael Lax post), or if your machine shipped with, or is older than July 2011, install Snow Leopard (10.6.3, update 10.6.8) in a separate external boot partition, and then install AppleWorks 6 on that. Then get that database exported as comma separated values, etc.

  • by MlchaelLAX,

    MlchaelLAX MlchaelLAX Dec 21, 2014 12:43 PM in response to pgainer
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    Dec 21, 2014 12:43 PM in response to pgainer

    Thank you for the referral, VikingOSX, as a solution to his problem:

     

    Here is a post I recently assembled for a similar question

     

    Appleworks 6 running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels for use on newer Macs:

     

    Appleworks in SLS.png

     

                                [click on image to enlarge]

     

    In the interim, study these two excellent articles:

     

    Abandoning Appleworks, by Roger Wilnut; and

     

    http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html

     

    Appleworks for the Modern Day, a Migration Tip by a brody

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2522

     

    Also: Installing Snow Leopard Server into Parallels for DUMMIES:

     

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17285039&postcount=564