Anne, I have tried. AW 6 files can be converted as long as they are not drawing files. AW5 files have to be converted to AW6 first. On Aug 18, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
