OLD appleworks on system 9 to-NEW appleworks 6 on 10

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Since it crashes AppleWorks 6 on three different Macs, the problem is almost certainly in the database. Are you using any unusual fonts in it on AppleWorks 5? If you are, try changing all of the fonts to Times or Helvetica, save it again in AppleWorks 5 & try again. Have you tried adding the .cwk extension to the file name? Not likely a problem but an easy thing to try.

Since AppleWorks 6 has crashed, you should delete the AppleWorks preferences after each crash. See my user tip, AppleWorks has stopped working correctly, for more on the preferences.

If none of this works, the best I can think of is to save the DB as a plain/ASCII text file, transfer that to the new Mac, create a new, blank database in AppleWorks 6 with the same fields in the same order & insert the text file. There are some limitations to this & you will, of course, have to recreate any layouts, but the data will get moved.

If you'd like, you may send me the file & I will see what I can come up with. Click my name in blue next to this post. My public e-mail address is in the biography section. Just replace (AT) with @.

When you open AppleWorks in AppleWorks 6 Save the Document in AppleWorks 6. AppleWorks will usually save back to the original application that you opened it from. I have opened Word documents and it is set to save back to Word unless I change the Save As to AppleWorks 6.



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