Recovered 1994 appleworks files; pages will not open them
I had a few discs of old files I need to access from 1994; data recovery got them onto a CD for me. I purchased Pages (iWork) thinking it would open them, but it comes up with "created by an unsupported version of appleworks."
Does anyone know how I can open these? Many thanks.
The iWork applications - Keynote, Pages & Numbers - can only open AppleWorks 6 presentation, word processing & spreadsheet documents, respectively. They will not open any other type of AppleWorks 6 files or any AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks files. 1994 files are likely ClarisWorks 4 as ClarisWorks 5 came out in 1995.
Your best option would be to get a copy of AppleWorks 6. AppleWorks 6.2.9 (the current version) can't open all ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files. It gives an I/O error. There doesn't appear to be a way to predict which files will cause problems. I've had it happen & not happen with all AppleWorks file types. These files can be opened by any other version of AppleWorks 6, so a good choice would be AppleWorks 6.2.4. AppleWorks 6.2.4 is the earliest version stable in OS X. Avoid 6.2.7 - very, very, very buggy! The last time I looked, Hardcore Mac was selling AppleWorks 6.2.4. You also can sometimes find AppleWorks 6 on eBay, but it might be difficult to be sure it's no newer than 6.2.4 and has an OS X-aware installer.
Other options would be to contact a local user group or an elementary school to see if anyone has a Mac with AppleWorks & could translate the files for you.
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