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Opening Old Appleworks documents
Opening Old Appleworks documents
Pages did not work to do this.
I did it through Microsoft for Mac...
They Pages open this...
This is a breakthrough.
Date: 12/29/2012 11:14:46 AM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1210 times
IS THERE A PROGRAM TO RECOVER MY OLD WRITING THAT I HAD
ON EARLIER OS ON THE MAC?
FInd out now.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1166370/open_old_docs.html
http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/os-x/how-to-migrate-all-of-your-important-d...
Bugs & Fixes: Opening (very) old AppleWorks and Word documents
By Ted Landau, MacworldApr 13, 2012 12:40 PMprint
You’ve managed to dodge the bullet of obsolete storage media. All your data from floppy disks (or whatever) is now safely on USB flash drives, terabyte backup drives, or in the cloud. But another pitfall awaits if and when you ever try to open those old files. What if a file’s data format is so ancient that you no longer have any applications that can read the format? I recently tripped over two examples of this dilemma. Here’s how I solved them:
AppleWorks
If you are a former AppleWorks user, you probably know that AppleWorks no longer launches in OS X 10.7 Lion. This is because AppleWorks requires Rosetta and Lion no longer supports Rosetta.
The simplest solution is to get Apple’s iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote). With these apps, you can open most word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations originally created with AppleWorks. After installing iWork apps and removing AppleWorks from your drive, AppleWorks documents will often open simply by double-clicking the document icon in the Finder. If not, launch the relevant iWork app (such as Pages for word processing documents) and sellect the desired document from the app’s Open dialog.
One place where I found this did not succeed was with documents created using AppleWorks Draw module. I assume this is because no iWork app directly corresponds to the Draw module. Fortunately, third-party apps come to the rescue here. To find out if I owned one of these apps, I selected Open With from the contextual menu of a reluctant AppleWorks file. A likely compatible app showed up in the list: Intaglio. I selected the app and, just as I had hoped, the file opened.
This message appeared when I tried to open a very old AppleWorks document.
My work was not quite done. Tucked away in a cobwebbed corner of my hard drive, I found some truly ancient AppleWorks documents. These files, dating back to the 1990’s, were so old that my iWork apps refused to open them. When I tried, I got an error that said: “Import Error. This document was created with an unsupported version of AppleWorks.”
As the problem file was a word processing document, I would be content if I could just recover the text. To do so, I gave BareBones' TextWrangler a try. From the Enable menu of the application’s Open dialog, I selected the Everything option. I could now open the AppleWorks file in TextWrangler. Heaps of unwanted code appeared before and after the actual text. But it was a simple matter to sellect the desired text and paste it into a blank Pages document. My salvage operation was a success.
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