"corrupted" appleworks documents

I've got word processing documents saved in .cwk format and have been unable to open them for some time. What happens is: when I click to open, I get that colorful circle spinning around and then sometimes the document opens (more often it doesn't). Then, I quickly copy and save it as a new word document; when I try to close the .cwk file, it won't close on its own and I have to use 'force quit.' Sometimes after I use force quit, I am able to open another appleworks document. I then go through the same thing: use force quit and try to open another document. I went to the local Mac store and they told me it's "corrupted" and that I should get iwork 09. I did that but it hasn't changed things. Any suggestions?

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I doubt that your documents are corrupt. I think you've been "bitten" by the "Recent Items bug" that has been around since AppleWorks 6 was released in March, 2000. It can make it appear that AppleWorks has frozen or failed to launch. The user tip by Dale Gillard, AppleWorks slow? Spinning ball appears?, explains a lot.
Since you've force quit AppleWorks, there has also likely been some corruption of the AppleWorks preferences. Anytime AppleWorks crashes or is force quit it's a very good idea to delete the AppleWorks preferences.

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Appleworks Document Corruption?

Hello,
I would like to export Appleworks documents located on an OS9 drive, to a 10.4.11 drive with an updated version of iWork '08.
I've read on this site that importing Appleworks documents to OSX can create formatting errors. I would like to know if there is a process to assure a seamless transition.
Thank you for your time.
J.C.

I'm not sure what you mean by "formatting errors" or "AppleWorks Document Corruption."
If your AppleWorks document is a word processing one made/last saved with AppleWorks 6, Pages will open it. Because AppleWorks does not normally add its .cwk extension to the file name, Pages is likely not going to recognize it as an AppleWorks file &, therefore, one it can open. You can set AppleWorks' preferences to add the .cwk extension in Preferences > General > Files. You can also add the .cwk extension to the file name in the Finder in either OS 9 or OS X. In OS X, see this user tip for information for adding the extension to whole folders of files at one time.
It is best to use a Mac-formatted drive or disk to transfer the file. Burning them to a CD is a good way to create a backup at the same time.

Appleworks document attachment gets corrupted

Trying to email an Appleworks document from my G4 to my iBook. The iBook doesn't have an email account - I retrieve mail from my ISP server with Safari. By the time I download it, it's not recognized as an Appleworks document and can't be converted to one or opened in any other application. I've tried with and without the .cwk on the end. Any suggestions (other than burning a CD)?
thanks,
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.

AppleWorks documents not opening

So I don't really know what I am doing. I have a really old version of Apple Works on my old computer and have taken all the documents from it and put them on my MBP. I have not bought Word, Page 2, or Apple Works. Any suggestions on which one I should purchase? I was thinking I would get the Page 2.
I have the 30 trial for the Word but I cannot open any of my AppleWorks documents. How do I get these open and save them in a way that is compatible with Word or Page 2?
Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions michaeldurant
Other than the fact that your document won't open, your question/problem is not the same as the original poster's (OP's) & it would have been best for you to start a new topic.
256 MB of RAM in OS X is minimal & 512 MB is still on the low side when working with documents with a lot of graphics. The amount of space the documents takes up on your hard drive, 55 MB for yours, is not the same as how much RAM it will use, although the bigger the file size, the more the application & system resources will be taxed. I have a database with photos in a multimedia field that takes 87.3 MB on my hard drive. Checking in Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder), Real Memory for AppleWorks goes from 15 MB to 41+ MB after opening the DB.
It's possible that one or more of the pictures you added in the last week are corrupt. If you have AutoSave turned on in Preferences & can remember when the last time you were able to successfully open this file, you may be able to find a copy more recent than the 35 MB one. Look in Documents > AppleWorks User Data > AutoSave where you will find documents with files with long names consisting of letters & numbers. Sort the folder by date in List view & try opening one.
Since this is a word processing document, if you have Pages (part of iWork) installed, Pages may be able to open it. Also, a text editor may help recover any raw text, not the pictures, if you need to rebuild the file.
I don't know how you are putting the pictures in the file or what format the pictures are. AppleWorks does best with graphics in PICT format. Even though the PICT files themselves are larger in the Finder, the resulting AppleWorks file will be smaller &, probably, less likely to corrupt. I use GraphicConverter to convert graphics to PICT for use in AppleWorks, but you can also use Preview.
Please post back whether or not any of these work.

When I click on any Appleworks document or try to open Appleworks, I get a dialog box saying :Appleworks Quit Unexpectedly" I have a current model iMac running OS 10.6.8. My Appleworks is version 6.2.9. Any suggestions?

When I try to open an Appleworks document or try to open Appleworks itself, I get a dialog box stating: "Appleworks 6 Quit Unexpectedly". I have Appleworks 6.2.9 and my OS is 10.6.8. Any suggestions?
Many thanks

There was a security update through Software Update a couple of months ago for 10.6.8 that caused this kind of problem for PPC applications. Apple issued a revised update a couple of days later. So my first suggestion is to run Software Update to make sure you have the updated update. You can also manually download the updater at this link.
Whenever AppleWorks quits unexpectedly or you force quit it, there will be some corruption of its preferences.
To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > Library > Preferences. Find and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist. Find and open the folder AppleWorks in this Preferences folder, then delete all of the enclosed files (with the exception of the Button Bar Preferences if you have customized the Button Bars). AppleWorks will recreate the preference files as it needs them.

How did I mess up my AppleWorks documents?

Doing some "housecleaning" on my Mac. There were these files that had a strange icon, and get info said they were terminal applications. However, from the file name I knew I had created them in 1998 or 1999, almost certainly with AppleWorks (possibly SimpleText but I doubt it). Maybe AppleWorks 5, not sure.
These had me puzzled for quite a while. TextEdit and AppleWorks 6 wouldn't touch them. TextEdit responded with "The operation could not be completed. An unexpected error occurred (error code -10814)." However, in Terminal I could get pico to open them.
I solved the problem by adding the .cwk extension to them. Now AppleWorks and TextEdit are ok with them.
But-- I must know-- what went wrong with them? I have lots of even older AppleWorks documents that didn't lose their identity.
PowerMac G4 Cube Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You said "especially if you use a PC-formatted disk
for the transfer" which makes a lot of sense. Do you
know what circumstances will lose the resource fork
when transferring from Mac-formatted media?
Only general corruption should cause the resource fork to be lost. That's because the Mac formatted media knows older documents have both a data fork and a resource fork. PC formatted media lives in a universe all its own and believes every document only has a data fork.
My other question is, since TextEdit didn't recognize
the files, is there a GUI app that will open
"confused" files more readily?
Generally speaking, no program can guess what type a file is. (The exception is graphic programs because the first line of the image file often says what type it is.) I'd suggest using the Finder's File > Get Info window as it will suggest what programs will open a file, and you can use it to change what program opens a file.
Dale

How can I convert an Applework document to .doc (Windows)?

Does anyone know how can I convert an Applework document to .doc (Windows)?

You can save an AppleWorks word processing document as Word using File > Save As… You will need to add the .doc extension as AppleWorks won't do it for you.
If you don't see Word as an option in the file type drop-down menu you likely have moved the AppleWorks application from the AppleWorks 6 folder and/or deleted the support folders, especially the AppleWorks Essentials folder where the translators reside.

Will Pages under Lion be able to open old AppleWorks documents in the way that it does under Snow Leopard?

I've just read a thread that suggested that Pages will be able to open AppleWorks documents under Lion, is this correct?
I understood from discussions last month that one had to convert all old AppleWorks documents to Pages or Word or some other format BEFORE upgrading to Lion as Pages would not be able to read them afterwards.
I wanted to pass on a tip that if you have used the AppleWorks password protect on your files, you will not be able to open them in Pages, so you need to open them in AppleWorks first, and take the password off, or save them as a file which is not protected, or some similar work around.

The Apple Support Community (us) just calmed me right down! Hi everyone. I just down loaded Lion through the Apple Apps Store and blindly went ahead and installed it, putting my mental well being in Apple's hands, having trusted Apple since my first Apple II (1974?). But ... "What do you mean, Appleworks isn't supported?" In a bit of a panic, wondering what was to happen to my vast (really) stock of AW documents I came to Apple Support for help. Thanks to the input from Sue, Cornelius, Jonanna and others I took the leap and, clicking on the "OpenApple"-I, accessed the "Open With" switching the AW document to open with Pages. In a word, perfect. And, it looks like Lion has already told itself to open all AW (remember Claris?) documents with Pages. CM
( Except I just spotted a thread titled "AppleWorks doc won't open in Pages" ... Going there next. )

Transferred appleworks documents from emac to new iMac and can't open. what app can i use or get? help! i'm not computer literate.

I TRANSFERED APPLEWORKS DOCUMENTS FROM AN eMAC TO A NEW IMAC AND CAN'T OPEN THEM. THE MESSSAGE STATES THERE AR NO APPS GO TO THE APP STORE. WHAT DO I NEED TO PURCHASE OR GET? I'M NOT A COMPUTER GUY BUT I WANT MY RECEPIES AND STUFF. HELP

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).
What is weird is that the Appleworks documents appear to come and go almost at random. One time you can't see them in the folder where you know they were, the next time you CAN. You can find them with Spotlight. I've done the disk cleanup and reset permissions, etc, run Onyx on it. Still happens after multiple restarts and on multiple documents. It SEEMS to be just limited to Appleworks documents, which seem to appear and disappear.
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
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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"
3. Double-click to open the Contents folder. Here's where the problem is.
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

I can't open Appleworks (or any appleworks documents)

I don't know what happened, but suddenly I can't open Appleworks. It disappeared from my dock. I made a new alias to put there. If I click on an Appleworks document the Alias icon bounces up and down once, and nothing else happens. Same if I click on the alias icon in the dock. If I click on Appleworks in the Applications menu nothing happens. If I highlight a file and try to open it under "Open With" under the File menu in Finder nothing happens. Any help anyone can provide would be appreciated, as I have a lot of important information stored in those documents. Thanks!

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)

How to open an Appleworks document created in the classic mode with a one year old iMac using 10.6.8

Trying to open a 10 year old Appleworks document. Get a dialog box that the Classic Mode is not supported on this machine. Is there a way to work around this problem and open the doc?

Try dropping the document onto the icon for AW 6.2.9; or use the Open item in AW 6.2.9's File menu.
Provided the document is in AW 5.x or later format, it should b openable in AW 6.
If the document is in AW 6.x format, it should also be able to be opened by Pages.

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Will Lion open Appleworks documents with Pages or Numbers like Snow Leopard does? Or do I have to convert all my Appleworks files before installing Lion?

Functionality of Pages and Numbers has little to do with whether it's runnong on Snow Leopard or Lion. Either way, if they open an AppleWorks document in SL, they'll open it in Lion. Of course, you have to understand that certain file types - particularly, AppleWorks databases - cannot be opened with anything other than AppleWorks, so you'll need to convert them with AppleWorks before upgrading to Lion.

After installing to iOS 5 on my Mac Book, is there anyway to retrieve MS Office documents or Appleworks documents?

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AppleWorks documents are being saved automatically as Unix files. How?

Working on a G3 iBook with OS X (10.3), all AppleWorks documents are being saved as Unix Executable Files by the program despite the dialogue box saying they will be saved as Appleworks documents complete with ".cwk".
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Welcome to Apple Discussions
The files aren't actually saved as Unix executables, your system just thinks they are. I find this kind of file confusion often occurs if permissions aren't repaired using Disk Utility after a system update.
You can "re-teach" your system what program opens those files. Click a known AppleWorks document in the Finder to highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose AppleWorks 6. If AppleWorks 6 is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the AppleWorks 6 application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with AppleWorks 6.

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