Appleworks documents and Coverflow

My AW documents do not "preview" in cover flow, but .doc's do. Already did the preferences wipe as suggested in other threads. Any suggestions?

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AppleWorks 6 is really an OS 9 application that was carbonized (quickly) to run in OS X but it was never coded to take advantage of the "bells & whistles" of OS X. Word documents, the .doc, like preview for a couple of reasons. They are text & both TextEdit & Pages have the ability to open them, so the preview you see probably doesn't actually come from the .doc file. Now that AppleWorks has been declared "end-of-life" you'll probably never see a preview (except the "blocky" previews of draw & paint documents if you have create custom icon turned on in preferences).

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david

Welcome to Apple Discussions, David!
Try using "Create Archive" from the file menu of Finder to create a compressed version of the file, then send the archive as the attachment. This sometimes helps.

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I tried Peggy's List > Select All > Copy > Paste into an AW spreadsheet suggestion.
In my case, pasting into the spreadsheet lost all text formatting (mostly text set to bold). The results of formulas were pasted, and checkboxes were pasted as "on" or "off". The DB did not contain any pop-up menus or radio buttons, but I expect they would transfer as a number showing the list position of the chosen item.
Pasting the copied List view data into a Numbers table gave a result similar to that with AppleWorks. I selected B2 as the target cell (for top left cell of the pasted data) to avoid any effects of posting into a header row or column. Bold and regular text formatting looked the same as it had in AW's List view.
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Welcome James!
For no cost, you can try the open-source productivy suite LibreOffice. I don't have any AW files here to test but there are reliable reports that LibreOffice can open at least some AW files:
http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/
Please turn off your caps lock key. All-caps text is harder for us to read and is considered "shouting" or "anger" by most internet text conventions. Thanks!

Finder and Appleworks documents

I have a friend who had a great many files in Appleworks. We were able to install Appleworks on her imac with Leopard, and she has been gradually moving them into .doc format (copying the Appleworks file contents, pasting it into a clean Neooffice doc and then saving the Neoffice doc.) She saves them into the same folder that the Appleworks docs lived (with no extension).
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We can live with this - she's about done with her copying at this point - but it IS a behavior I've not seen before. Has anyone else seen this? Does it portend something more ominous than just an old program not being properly recognized?

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?[email protected]@.688fe733
This contains the following topics....
AppleWorks slow? Spinning ball appears?
These symptoms are usually caused by a full Recent Items folder, or less commonly, a full Auto Save folder. Follow these steps to empty the Recent Items folder or Auto Save folder.
1. Quit AppleWorks.
2. Delete the contents of AutoSave and Recent Items (Folders)
~/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/Starting Points/Recent Items
~/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/AutoSave
3. I t was also reported that deleting the following also solved a problem...
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
4. If you do not use either the Recent Items or Auto Save (aka Auto Recovery) features of AppleWorks you can disable them from the AppleWorks Preferences.
THEN... if AppleWorks still will not launch:
1. Open your Applications folder, and then the AppleWorks folder. You should see the AppleWorks icon and several "supporting folders" (AppleWorks Essentials, AppleWorks Extras, Starting Points, etc.)
2. Control + Click on the AppleWorks icon and select "Show Package Contents"
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4 You should see 3 folders and files. The folders should be named MacOS, MacOSClassic and Resources. In all the incidents I've seen, the "MacOS" folder has somehow been renamed with some long obscure cache-like number. Rename this folder MacOS (be sure to type it exactly like this, no space)
5. Close the Contents folder and Package folder and try to launch Appleworks.
6. Smile!
If this does not work for you, (there was one incident that the above fix did not for me), highlight the MacOS folder and duplicate it. Toss the original and rename the copy to Mac OS. For some reason the copy worked.
george

Preview column and appleworks documents

My two Macs running Tiger 10.4.3 do not show a preview of Appleworks documents in the preview column of the finder.
My Mac running Panther does.
What are possible reasons that the Tiger Macs do not show the preview?
I do note that the Tiger Macs do successfully show previews of pdf files and jpegs.
thanks
iMac 450 dv, Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

AFAIK the AppleWorks Finder preview is a plug-in written specifically for the Finder. That plug-in architecture was never really used much to the best of my knowledge, and over time the Finder has perhaps transitioned to a newer method of previewing content. The AppleWorks oversight may merely reflect the overall deprecated nature of this app at Apple. Consider that a tag line for iWork is "Building a successor to AppleWorks." So, eh :shrug:
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Classic Environment documents and Leopard

I am running Tiger on a non-dual-core iMac G5. I have about 300 documents that I created in Classic Environment. I am told that Leopard does not support Classic. I would like to upgrade to
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Documents are neither "Classic" or "OSX". Documents are files.
The application that you use to create, edit, print, and save are either "Classic" or "OSX".
So your files, even if created in OS8, could be moved to 10.5.2 and opened w/o any girations on your part to make it work. BUT the application that created it in OS8, or OS9 would have to have been updated to work as an OSX application to do so.
In your case, it sounds like they are basic text docs anyway. If TextEdit can open them, you might try just opening them directly with AppleWorks. You won't be able to just double click them for this to work, but open Appleworks, then from there, go to File>Open and navigate to one of your older OS9 docs, and see what happens.
In the end, you may indeed need to go thru the Text Edit step, but it's work a try to try to bypass this step.
Past all of THAT, Appleworks is EOL.... end of life, and someday soon, Appleworks may not work with the next iteration of Mac OSX. You should check out the new Pages.... it's new and will be supported longer than Appleworks for sure, so your documents will last longer.
At work I have a PowerPC Quad G5, and it runs Classic mode just fine under 10.4, so Classic is not a dual processor issue. However, *no Intel Mac* will run Classic, period.

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ninisusie wrote:
I had a similar problem & did what you said & AppleWorks opened from the desktop. What do I do with the folders on the desktop?
If you really applied what I described:
+Drag the folder:+
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:AppleWorks:
+and the file:+
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.appleworks.pli st
+on the Desktop.+
and if in this case AppleWorks.6 behaves correctly, you may trash the items which I asked you to move on the desktop.
Often, it's a good idea to open the
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:AppleWorks:
folder which you moved on the desktop ,
grab the "AppleWorks 6 Button Bars" file and move it in the newly created
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:AppleWorks: folder.
Doing that you will recover your set of custom buttons; Of course if you didn't created custom buttons this task is unneeded.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 31 mai 2009 10:36:35)

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