Hi, after upgrading my Bondi Blue to 0S X.2, I can't open my older saved
appleworks documents, V.5, that are saved on back-up disks. However,
when I changed the startup disk to OS 9.2, (took forever to rebuild the
desktop!) I could open them, so I know the documents are not corrupted
or anything. I really want to boot in X, not classic. I think
Appleworks 6.0 works in both 9 & 10 and I thought it would open older
docs regardless, but I'm not having any success. It seem to only boot in
OS X (the blue apple is showing) even though classic is open. I tried
reinstalling it, thinking something loaded wrong, but it keeps doing the
same thing. Any ideas? Thanks!
Lauren
There are two different versions of AppleWorks 6, one for OS 9 (latest
version is 6.2.5, I believe) and one for OS X (latest version 6.2.7?).
You need to have the OS X version in your OS X applications folder if you
want to avoid Classic mode. However, the OS 9 version should work in
Classic.
Either version will tell you that it is creating a new file when it opens
an AppleWorks 5 document.
Herb
The versions aren't separable on my Early 2001 G3 500MHz running OS 10.1.5
over OS 9.2.2. There is only one visible installation of AppleWorks, and
it's in the "Applications (OS 9)" folder. Double-clicking the icon from
OS X doesn't start Classic: it just starts V.6.2.7. Double-clicking the
icon from OS 9.2.2 evokes V.6.2.5 instead.
It's all magic to me. I agree Lauren has to upgrade
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120213>
but I would allow installation into the classic Apps folder, and just put
an alias in the OS X Apps folder. I think I read on a list around here
that that's the best way to store Carbon apps.
Thad
Thank you for your help once again! The update worked and I'm happily opening my older docs now, from Appleworks 6.2.7 in OSX. Still couldn't figure out how to make Appleworks 6.2.5 open from OS 9.2.2, (but I really don't need to since 6.2.7 is behaving well now.) Is the only way to do this is to change the start-up disk from OS X to OS 9? Is that what you meant, Thad, when you said "double-clicking the icon from OS 9.2.2 evokes V. 6.2.5? Just curious as to how this whole thing works.
Lauren
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