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Dec 12, 2014 8:05 PM in response to photphilby VikingOSX,★HelpfulWith the exception of Filemaker, Apple no longer offers an integrated, office productivity database solution. If you presently have a working copy of AppleWorks, see if you can export the database data as either a comma, or tab separated values (CSV) text file.
Once you have that CSV file, it can be read into contemporary database products, or spreadsheets.
The free LibreOffice may be able to read that AppleWorks database file, or it may not. LibreOffice does handle ClarisWorks/AppleWorks word processing, spreadsheet, and graphics files reasonably well. LibreOffice has its own database product called Base.
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Dec 13, 2014 8:04 AM in response to VikingOSXby Peggy,All versions of AppleWorks & ClarisWorks can only export databases as ASCII text which results in a tab-delimited file. These can be opened in almost any database, spreadsheet & word processing program some of which can re-export as CSV.
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Dec 13, 2014 12:11 PM in response to VikingOSXby photphil,Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't have a working copy of Appleworks since my G5 died. Now using Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and 10.9.5. Have a paper copy of my old file, at least.
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Dec 21, 2014 12:14 PM in response to photphilby MlchaelLAX,★Helpfulphotphil wrote:
Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't have a working copy of Appleworks since my G5 died. Now using Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and 10.9.5. Have a paper copy of my old file, at least.
You can run Appleworks 6 in Snow Leopard!
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Dec 22, 2014 6:49 AM in response to MlchaelLAXby photphil,Thanks, Michael. I didn't know that. I'll see if I can find a copy of Appleworks.
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Dec 22, 2014 7:47 AM in response to photphilby Peggy,I just checked & Hardcore Mac is still selling AppleWorks 6.2.4.
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Dec 22, 2014 11:24 AM in response to photphilby VikingOSX,And Apple's AppleWorks 6.2.9 updater is still available.
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Dec 22, 2014 11:39 AM in response to Peggyby MlchaelLAX,Peggy wrote:
I notice that Hardcore Mac states:
(Some people have no trouble using AppleWorks with Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard while others have problems. If you are running Snow Leopard, purchase AppleWorks at your own risk.)
However my experience is that Appleworks 6.2.9 works fine in Snow Leopard.
Roger Wilmut observes:
So far it works fine on Snow Leopard on Intel Macs (though a couple of quite minor bugs have emerged)
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html
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Dec 22, 2014 5:32 PM in response to MlchaelLAXby Peggy,Minor issues, mostly with graphics, appeared in AppleWorks 6 in Leopard & Snow Leopard. Still, not bad for an OS 8/9 application that was carbonized to run in OS X. It survived very well until support for PPC apps was removed with Lion.