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At 1:33 AM +0000 2/17/2010, [email protected] wrote:
I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has
been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones
she needs are the database files ending in .cwk. She bought iWorks
09 and I installed it on the iMac. iWorks will NOT open the files!
I'm not sure why you would think that iWorks would open such?
iWorks = Pages (word processing) + Numbers (spreadsheet). But you're
trying to tell it to open a *database* file. That's kindof like
trying to slap a 747's fuselage onto a VW Bug.
Apple's modern solution for databases is to use Bento.
1. Will Appleworks work on an Intel iMac? (which would be the simplest thing!)
Certainly! And that's your best solution.
2. Is there another program that will open a .cwk file?
No. It's a proprietary format file. The only thing you can do wrt
migration is to save the database in some other format, then import
that into an appropriate app.
At 6:10 PM -0800 2/16/2010, John Carmonne wrote:
I wonder why Apple doesn't want folks to use it?
AppleWorks was written against the early Mac OS, then upgraded to
sortof run on OS X. Its code base is a mess, and barely supports
Carbon (the API created for the transition from Classic to OS X).
Modern Mac OS X apps must be Cocoa-based tho! Apple felt that the
right thing to do would be to re-write from the ground up, hence
Pages and Numbers (iWork).
iWork is OK if it's your first rodeo but us old timers have too many
files and hours in them to scrap for the new kid on the block.
Yea. Apple has really dropped the ball here. Except for a few
features, Pages and Numbers are a joke compared to even AppleWorks 5.
And that doesn't even begin to account for the other components of
AppleWorks - database, paint, & draw.
- Dan.
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