In 2007, I stored some information on a disk, as it was too sensitive to remain on my computer. Now the disk shows it was a .cwk file and I cannot open it. I've tried several things, but I've gotten messages that it isn't a pages, numbers or presentation

Question

In 2007, I stored some sensitive information on a disk rather than leave it on my computer. Now, in the latest version of Pages, I cannot read the disk, although accessing the information could save me days of work duplicating it. Is there a way of reading/converting the disk?

Answer 1

By 'cannot read the disk' I assume you mean that you can access the file but cannot open it (if you couldn't read the disk you wouldn't be able to see the file in the first place).
As you have found, the latest Pages does not open Appleworks documents. If you had the earlier version of Pages and upgraded, the older version is still in the iwork '09 folder in your Applications folder and that version pf Pages will open AW Word Processing documents (which presumably that is).
Failing that, 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 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.