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Lion and Appleworks
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I think the iWork suite can open some AppleWorks documents.
If you need the data so bad, you can always revert to Snow Leopard.
I think the iWork suite can open some AppleWorks documents.
If you need the data so bad, you can always revert to Snow Leopard.
You can download a 30 day trial of iWork from Apple.
That's probably your best bet if you're going to stick with Lion. Or go back to Snow Leopard for the Rosetta support.
What type of Appleworks documents do you have? Do you have database documents you need to open?
iWork should work fine for everything EXCEPT the database documents.
That's probably your best bet if you're going to stick with Lion. Or go back to Snow Leopard for the Rosetta support.
What type of Appleworks documents do you have? Do you have database documents you need to open?
iWork should work fine for everything EXCEPT the database documents.
Sorry for trying to offer a suggestion.
Software doesn't last forever. If you want to continue to use Appleworks, you need to go back to Snow Leopard on at least one of your computers.
Well done Apple good move NOT
Hardly Apple's fault. The last version of Appleworks was released in 2004 in the world of technology that was generations ago. PowerPC, coincidentally the architecture that very product was developed for, is long-since dead and the mere fact that you still have this software and expect it to run seven years later boggles my mind.
"Why do you use a program that is almost 8 years old?"
Because it still works well, isn't bloated, and does exactly what I need for it to do.
On the other hand, I find Apple's "AppleWorks replacements" (Pages, Numbers) extremely bloated, slow, and "overfeatured".
I still use an old version of Microsoft Works (3.0a) with a copyright date of 1993 on it, running under Classic. It's fast, compact, easy-to-use, and has the nicest flat-file database I've ever used.
1993 may be older than many (if not most) folks reading this posting.
Microsoft would do well to re-introduce MS Works on the Mac in a 64-bit Intel native format.
Because it still works well, isn't bloated, and does exactly what I need for it to do.
On the other hand, I find Apple's "AppleWorks replacements" (Pages, Numbers) extremely bloated, slow, and "overfeatured".
I still use an old version of Microsoft Works (3.0a) with a copyright date of 1993 on it, running under Classic. It's fast, compact, easy-to-use, and has the nicest flat-file database I've ever used.
1993 may be older than many (if not most) folks reading this posting.
Microsoft would do well to re-introduce MS Works on the Mac in a 64-bit Intel native format.
"Just to thank Apple for stopping Appleworks from working, now I cannot load any of my bloody documents I have saved."
I'd like to offer an alternative course of action.
It won't be easy, and will have a learning curve.
You will still be able to run AppleWorks and access those documents in Lion, IF you do the following:
1. Install SheepShaver (which creates a "Classic Mac" emulator), and then...
2. Run the "Classic" version of AppleWorks using SheepShaver.
SheepShaver _does_ run under Lion, but going to warn you up front: it's A BEAR to install and get going. I still haven't got it completely right yet.
But it does run.....
I'd like to offer an alternative course of action.
It won't be easy, and will have a learning curve.
You will still be able to run AppleWorks and access those documents in Lion, IF you do the following:
1. Install SheepShaver (which creates a "Classic Mac" emulator), and then...
2. Run the "Classic" version of AppleWorks using SheepShaver.
SheepShaver _does_ run under Lion, but going to warn you up front: it's A BEAR to install and get going. I still haven't got it completely right yet.
But it does run.....
Got to post only because it is so funny
You have got to be kidding ... how could you not have known Lion would not run Appleworks... when I installed it on SL the installer loaded Rosetta(sp)... There is no support for it in Lion... while we are at it lets get pissed at MS for dropping support for DOS I can no longer run VisiCalc...
You have got to be kidding ... how could you not have known Lion would not run Appleworks... when I installed it on SL the installer loaded Rosetta(sp)... There is no support for it in Lion... while we are at it lets get pissed at MS for dropping support for DOS I can no longer run VisiCalc...
Dude really - not only is it old software, but you should have done your research before buying Lion. One of the first things said at the keynote was the end of Rosetta. How did you not put 2 and 2 together...
Hello
Because I do not watch or listen to keynotes , I am just a humble user not a techie.