How can I retrieve apple works ?

Backup her files, erase the drive, and reinstall Snow Leopard.

Clean Install of Snow Leopard

Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase

the drive and everything on it.

1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came

with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.

After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see

a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.

2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue

button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.

After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive

size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of

partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button

and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended

(Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.

3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed

with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.

4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup

Assistant. After you finish Setup Assistant will complete the installation after which

you will be running a fresh install of OS X. You can now begin the update process

by opening Software Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your

installation current.

Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Be sure you can reinstall AppleWorks. It, too, will be erased.

No version of AppleWorks will run in Mountain Lion. The options are to either find another application to open the files(this depends on what type of documents they are; LibreOffice may work) or to run AppleWorks 6 in an older OS.

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Open them in Pages. Otherwise partition the drive and install Snow Leopard on that. Which would suit better?

Pete

4jbl7 wrote:

So, is there any way she can retrieve the files and then use them or is the only option to reload the older O/S ?

You can create a new partition on a hard drive and restore the old OS to that then boot off it to run AppleWorks.

To convert the files, see this -> AppleWorks for the modern day, a migration tip

petermac87 wrote:

Open them in Pages.

Not the current version - that facility was withdrawn.

• Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4 (AppleWorks 6 only) but this is no longer available from Apple - the new Pages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. (The older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.) Panergy Software's docXConverter v3.2 ($19.95) can convert Appleworks 5 and 6 Word Processing documents to RTF (though it has been reported that it can only handle documents which contain only text, not those which include images or frames). The latest version of the free LibreOffice has announced that it can open AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents and an ability to open ClarisWorks documents has been reported: it does appear to be able to handle at least some embedded images.
• Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more expensive version from their website, not the cheaper one from the Mac App Store, and you will need v4.0 'Retro' not the most recent version) or Intaglio (though this appears not to be able to handle very complex drawings). LibreOffice will open simple Draw documents but I found it very unreliable with complex ones.
• Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in the older versions of Numbers - the new version for Mavericks will not do this. The old version is no longer available from Apple. (Again, the older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.)
• Presentations can be opened directly only in the older versions Keynote; again, the new version for Mavericks will not do this. The old version is no longer available from Apple. (The older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.)
• Nothing will open database documents.

If you have upgraded to Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks and have AppleWorks documents you cannot open, then you should be able to install Snow Leopard on an external hard disk and start from that (provided that the Mac did not come with anything higher than Snow Leopard originally installed); and success has been reported in running Snow Leopard Server under emulation in Parallels - the method is described here: Snow Leopard Server is (as far as I know) still available in the Apple Store (by telephone) at a reduced price and is preferable to using ordinary Snow Leopard which is quite tricky. I haven't tried this myself: use at your own discretion. You can then run AppleWorks as an emergency measure.

Roger Wilmut1 wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

Open them in Pages.

Not the current version - that facility was withdrawn.

Was it really? Thanks for the correction, Roger. Something I have not tried for a while. Pity, but Appleworks, sadly, is a long time ago.

Thanks

Pete

I believe that if nothing else works the freeware word processing app Libre Office will open AppleWorks files and save them into Libre Office. I opened ClarisWorks files using Libre Office quite a while ago. I assume it still has that capability. Then you can save them as PDFs and put into Pages or copy/paste.🙂

As said above, LibreOffice will open some Appleworks files - specifically Word Processing, Drawing (with limitations) and they are working on Paint.

Delete and redownload it. If it still doesn't work, contact the people running the site.

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As Roger noted, if LibreOffice will not open certain Appleworks files, consider running Appleworks in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels for use on all Macs that can no longer run Snow Leopard:

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More information here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439