[tioga]

I just got a new eMac with Appleworks 6, and I can't open my old docs created with Appleworks 5. Is there something I need to convert before 6 will open them?
When I try to open a folder with these old docs in it, they appear grayed-out. Only resource fork is lit up. I don't know what this means.

[bbales]

6 should open everything just fine -- you'll just get the standard warning that the document was created by an older version.

You mention the dialogue box -- what happens when you just double-click on an actual document?

And, just in case you were a fan of creating macros in 5 (which I was), that feature is gone in 6...

[tioga]

Thanks for the reply
Here's an update:
I used iDisk to transfer files from the old iMac to the new eMac instead of the thumb flash drive and most of the word processing docs can be opened in Appleworks 6. However, many of the spreadsheet docs still can't be opened.
When I double-click on them I get dialog box asking what app to open with. I select Appleworks, but the docs are still grayed-out.
No big deal but I'm trying to learn OSX as I go.

[Tsilou B.]

Try renaming the files to Filename.cwk

Maybe Mac OS X doesn't realize they're AppleWorks files. With the .cwk extension, it will recognize them properly.

[Millennium]

Ideally, that should not happen, but the AppleWorks 6 port to OSX does date back to a time when Apple had deprecated metadata. They wisely reversed that decision after the uproar it caused among the userbase, but AppleWorks has had so few updates since then that it wouldn't surprise me if this had been taken out and never put back in.