[Maxi]

Hi, I have a bunch of files from my old Mac OS 7 that I would like to transfer to my new Macbook. The old Macwrite files can be opened on Office 2004 but Claris Works files and Escel files are impossible to open, having problems with the old quarkxpress files also. Any help will be appreciated, thankss!!.

[fisherKing]

try this

there may be a demo version, so if you do it quickly, you could get all your files...

[GopherAlex]

Well, as for the Clarisworks stuff, AppleWorks used to BE Clarisworks, so that can probably open the Clarisworks stuff, and maybe the Excel stuff too as it has MacLink Plus built in. AppleWorks should run under Rosetta. Failing that, do you still have the OS 7 computer running? If so you could try exporting files in different formats to see what will import into OS X. If not, maybe search eBay for newer but still semi-old versions of your software, and use it as an intermediary - e.g. old doc -> semi-old software -> semi-old doc -> new software. Try that with the Quark stuff if a semi-old version of Quark is not that expensive and the exporting-into-an-alternate-format thing doesn't work.

[Maxi]

I'll try saving in another format through OS 7. In the meanwhile I´m downloading AppleWorks

[tooki]

This is not an OS question in any way, it's an application question.

tooki

[naved]

I have successfully opened Quark files by opening them from within the application. For instance, a document created in Quark 3.3 can be opened in Quark 5 by Pressing Comminad+O and then opening it from within Quark5 and then saving it back again.

Hope this works...