Harry, I have been told but haven't tried it yet, that AppleWorks files can be converted to Pages under Lion. Try dragging an AW word processing file onto the Pages icon and see if that works. I'm hoping it will when I get around to switching to Lion later this year.
Anne On Aug 18, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > This spring I installed Lion on my 5 year old MacBook Pro. Lion does not run > appleworks. I find I have a lot of appleworks files that need to be converted > to pages or pdfs. I have an unused firewire 80gb lacie drive which I want to > partition and use one partition as an external startup drive with Mac OS > 10.6. I can then, at my leisure, startup from the external drive, and convert > my files. > > Four questions: > > 1) when I go to format and partition the drive I am presented with 4 Mac > choices > a) Mac OS Extended (Journaled) > b) Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) > c) Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) > d) Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted) > > Which choice do I want? > > 2) what do all the choice mean? > > 3) How big should the partition be? > > 4) Could I also use a usb 2.0 drive to do this? > > > TIA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
