Hi Mike, Teresa is correct; you can open the later version, individual cwk files in iWorks -- most likely in Pages from your description. However, probably an easier way to deal with these files is to batch convert them from AppleWorks format to Pages format using an AppleScript.
You can download an AppleScript named "batch_AWxWP2Pages.zip" that will perform this conversion from the MobileMe iDisk of Yvan Koenig at: <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan> Download: For_iWork:For_Pages:batch_AWxWP2Pages.zip To navigate to the download link for this AppleScript, use the URL for Yvan Koenig's public iDisk: http://public.me.com/koenigyvan Then use item chooser menu (VO-I) to navigate to each successive sub-directory that is separated by the colons. For example, first use item chooser menu to navigate to "For_iWork", which will be announced as "clickable". Press either "Return" or use VO-Space to select this item as the location you want to navigate to, then use VO-Space to "click" the item. Perform the same steps with item chooser menu to navigate to "For_Pages" within the "For_iWork" directory, and again click on this with VO-Space. After you use item chooser menu a third time to navigate to "batch_AWxWP2Pages.zip" and VO-Space to click on the file selection, use item chooser a final time to find the "Download" clickable element that will actually initiate the download of this AppleScript when you click with VO-Space. By the way, this directory is the same location where I found an AppleScript to batch convert Pages output to Word document format in response to Yuma's question last year. If you think this is something you might use, you can also use item chooser menu to find the "batch_exportPages2DOC.zip" AppleScript, VO-Space, then find the "Download" clickable element again and VO-Space to download that AppleScript, as well, before you leave the site. You'll find the file(s) in your Downloads folder. From Safari, press Command-Option-L to move to your Downloads window. This shortcut works for me, as long as my Safari tool bar is not hidden, but if you can't view your downloaded files when you press Command-Option-L, toggle Safari into full screen mode with Command-Control-F before trying Command-Option-L again. (Thanks to Søren and others who confirmed this works on their 15 inch MacBook Pro models; it's not clear why some models require this and others do not, but putting Safari into full screen mode should enable all Macs to view downloads window content with Command-Option-L. You can toggle out of full screen mode with another Command-Control-F.) The source code is documented in French and English. If your files are cwk 6.0 or later, then it should just convert them to Pages format. However, if they are earlier than version 6.0 cwk files, you'll need a copy of AppleWorks 6 on your machine so that the AppleScript can first convert them to AppleWorks 6.0 format, and then convert them to Pages format. This probably means that you have to be running Snow Leopard or earlier, so you can run the earlier programs that were designed for the PowerPC Macs in Rosetta mode, as well as having a copy of the AppleWorks 6 program. If this is the case, you should probably run the downloaded AppleScript for "batch_AWxWP2Pages" from an older Mac. The older PowerPC models that were loaded with Tiger came with AppleWorks and other OS 7 software, as well. The way that Yvan Koenig's script works, if you select a folder which contains the files you want to batch convert, and then run the AppleScript that you downloaded and opened, by pressing Command-R, converted versions of the files will be created in the same folder. This was the way the AppleScript to batch convert Pages files to Word document format worked. You can save the AppleScript in any location, but if you want to be able to access it from your menu bar, save it to the Library/Scripts folder for your account. While in the AppleScript editor that you opened when accessing the script file, press Command-Comma to bring up your preferences window, then check the box for "Show script menu in menu bar" before closing the window with Command-W. This will make an "AppleScript" menu visible on your status menu bar. You can navigate to it with either VO-M-M or Control-F8, and if you arrow down into it, you'll find any AppleScripts that you've placed into your Library/Scripts folder, along with the various folders of your computer's AppleScripts (if the box for "Show Computer Scripts" was also checked under your AppleScript preferences window). Under Lion, your Library folder is hidden. You can still view it if you use the Command-Shift-G shortcut for "Go to folder" and type into the dialog text box: ~/Library (that's a tilde, followed by a slash, followed by the word "Library" with no spaces between any of the characters). Then press "return' to actually go there. The tilde is a shorthand way of typing your user account. If you're not comfortable typing the tilde followed by the slash, you can break this into two steps: (1) Command-Shift-H this shortcut in Finder or dialog windows selects your user account home directory (equivalent to the tilde followed by the slash) and (2) Command-Shift-G but this time type "Library" into the dialog text box and press return to go to the "LIbrary" folder in your account. You may have to create a folder named "Scripts" (with Command-Shift-N, or by using the "New Folder" option from the FIle menu), if you haven't used AppleScripts before. Now, when you need to access this script again, you can select your folder of files to batch convert from Finder, then use either VO-M-M or Control-F8 to navigate to the "AppleScript" menu, arrow down and press "b" to navigate to the "batch_AWxWP2Pages" script, and press "return" to run the script. Since you're unlikely to run your batch conversion on AppleScript files more than once, the AppleScript menu information is more likely to be useful if you save the AppleScript for batch converting Pages output to Word's doc format. For more information on AppleWorks and conversions, see Apple's support page: http://www.apple.com/support/appleworks/ Apparently you can also convert old AppleWorks spreadsheets and databases to Bento, if you have purchased that application. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 28, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Mike, > > I found some information which indicates that cwk 6.0 or highter can be > opened via IWorks. > > HTH, > Teresa > > "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. > Feynman > > On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I recently received some files on a USB Stick that contained several files >> with a CWK extension. When I tried to open one of them, I was told that I >> was attempting to open an AppleWorks file. >> >> When I spoke with the person who gave me the USB stick, she said that the >> files had been created on an old Apple computer quite some time ago. Does >> anyone know how I might be able to assist this person and convert the files >> to something that is usable on a modern Mac? Is there a free, or not too >> expensive utility out there that would accomplish this task for us? >> >> Kindest regards to all and thanks in advance, >> >> Mike >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
