Recently someone asked me if I could help him open old documents on his Mac. Those documents were made in 1997 with ClarisWorks (ClarisWorks is de predecessor of AppleWorks) and can’t be opened with any version of Pages (not even the oldest iWork version that runs on Intel Macs).
Luckily, there is still a way to open these documents.
How to open old AppleWorks and ClarisWorks documents?
- AppleWorks updates to the final version 6.2.9 are free downloads. Hardcore Mac: AppleWorks for Windows - This one is a rare find, but they also are currently charging $149.99 for it! Amazon: AppleWorks 6.2.9 - the last Mac version.
- AppleWorks File Repair Utility v.1.0. This utility is designed to fix AppleWorks documents that have become damaged when the documents are saved from AppleWorks 6 running on a Mac OS X 10. Category: Utilities. Developer: Apple - Download - Price: $99.00. Doc repair utility - pst repair utility - file utility - file management utility - file.
How do you actually open old .cwk files on your new Mac? AppleWorks will surely not work, because it requires a PPC Mac or Rosetta Code, which doesn’t ship anymore for ages.Luckily you can open any old AppleWorks and ClarisWorks file with LibreOffice.
Year released: 1994. Collation: Single file. TIMEOUT:TO.AFTERWORK BIN 13 Sep 94 11:07 pm TIMEOUT:TO.ASP.ENTER.PA BIN 07 Nov 94 06:45 pm TIMEOUT:TO.CONFIGDBLINK BIN 11 Oct 94 07:01 pm TIMEOUT:TO.DATE.RESET BIN 11 Oct 94 07:07 pm TIMEOUT:TO.DB.LINK.5.0 BIN 17 Oct 94 04:57 pm TIMEOUT:TO.DB.WIDTHS BIN 18 Oct 94 12:16 am TIMEOUT:TO.
Converting all the old .cwk documents on your Mac to PDF
But it is very inconvenient to do this by hand for all the old documents on your Mac.That is why I programmed a small Python script which converts all the .cwk suffixed documents in a folder (or any of its subfolders) to PDF using LibreOffice.
So how to use it?
Install LibreOffice first in the /Applications folder.
Download my cwk_to_pdf.py script from Github.
Then open the Terminal application on your Mac and execute the script while passing a the folder with the .cwk files to it.
If you don’t know how to navigate in the Terminal or work with relative directories in the Terminal, you can simplify the process by:
- Open the Terminal application
- Type
python - Type a space
- Drag and drop the
cwk_to_pdf.pyfile in the terminal - Type another space
- Drag and drop the folder you want to run the script on in the terminal
- Hit enter
While executing, the cwk_to_pdf.py script will go through all files and subfolders in the specified directory, and will convert all files ending with .cwk to PDF.It will save those files in the the same directory.
Don’t forget to backup your files before running scripts like this! (And in fact you should always backup, not only when you run stuff!!!)
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