AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

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AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

Postby mhoutman » Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:57 am

in a few days we will have OS 10.6. can somebody confirm that it is compatible with AppleWorks ?

tia mike
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Re: AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

Postby Barry » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:32 am

mhoutman wrote:in a few days we will have OS 10.6. can somebody confirm that it is compatible with AppleWorks ?

tia mike


Hi Mike,

Anyone who can give you a definitive answer either way will currently be bound by a non-disclosure agreement.

Regards,
Barry
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Postby mhoutman » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:51 am

so patience is the keyword here ? ;)
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Re: AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

Postby Peggy » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:27 am

Barry wrote:
mhoutman wrote:in a few days we will have OS 10.6. can somebody confirm that it is compatible with AppleWorks ?

tia mike


Hi Mike,

Anyone who can give you a definitive answer either way will currently be bound by a non-disclosure agreement.

Regards,
Barry


I have ordered my Snow Leopard update & it is scheduled to arrive on Friday, August 28. One of the first things I will check will be AppleWorks. I will post my observations here & in Apple's AppleWorks forum shortly after.
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Re: AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

Postby Guest » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:15 pm

I got Snow Leopard on Friday, and installed it on an external with my Intel iMac. Then I checked here (which I hadn't in a dog's age) and it seemed nobody had yet posted a result. I just dragged over a copy of AW from the iMac's internal HD, and then tried booting it. The machine indicated it had to download Rosetta for it to work with 10.6. I clicked OK and it d/l'ed Rosetta, and then AW booted up quickly. I then opened up a large customer DB (1.6 meg), and it all looks good. I haven't done anything else with it, but thought I'd let you know.
WARNING: There zillions of printers that don't yet have drivers for 10.6. Last year I bought a heavy duty Ricoh multifunction printer and it's been great with 10.5.x. Now the external partition can only printer using the Gutenburg driver which seems a rather kludgey. Fortunately I can boot to the main HD, and "wait it out" until Ricoh posts a new driver. The main brands have drivers for many, but far from all, models. So do a full backup before you update your main HD to Snow Leopard. You may need it, if you need to print anything on as yet unsupported printer.
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mhoutman wrote:in a few days we will have OS 10.6. can somebody confirm that it is compatible with AppleWorks ?

tia mike
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Postby mhoutman » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:24 pm

hi patrick,

that was very kind from you. yet in the last couple of days i made the though decision to abandon appleworks (among other apps which were of the old days). (probably used as appleworks as it was started as clarisworks).

i will no use either iworks 09 or if necessary ms office 2008.


thanks again, mike
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Re: AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

Postby Peggy » Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:58 pm

Peggy wrote:
Barry wrote:
mhoutman wrote:in a few days we will have OS 10.6. can somebody confirm that it is compatible with AppleWorks ?

tia mike


Hi Mike,

Anyone who can give you a definitive answer either way will currently be bound by a non-disclosure agreement.

Regards,
Barry


I have ordered my Snow Leopard update & it is scheduled to arrive on Friday, August 28. One of the first things I will check will be AppleWorks. I will post my observations here & in Apple's AppleWorks forum shortly after.


I did a custom install of Snow Leopard to include Rosetta since I knew AppleWorks would need it. In my brief testing, AppleWorks continues to work as well as ever.
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re Appleworks and Snow Leopard 10.6

Postby ranscoyote » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:05 am

For database and spreadsheet I have no options in the print menu. I can't select "current record" etc. It will only work if I quit Appleworks and it will then work once only before I have to quite again.
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Spreadsheets in OS 10.6.1

Postby klemcoll » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:23 am

I have found that if you try to open a spreadsheet where the title contains a #, you will get an error. Just get rid of the # and all will be fine.
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Apple Works working with Snow Loopard

Postby Chuck S. » Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:55 pm

Works fine here with Rosetta which was installed when I upgraded to 10.6.

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Re: AppleWorks and Snow Leopard 10.6 compatibility ?

Postby Dean Aschenbrenner » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:32 pm

mhoutman wrote:in a few days we will have OS 10.6. can somebody confirm that it is compatible with AppleWorks ?

tia mike

Mike:

I have been a user of AppleWorks FOREVER! I have been running Snow Leopard since the week after it came out and have had NO difficulties. I STILL rely on AW more than Pages as it does many things (like database) that Pages/Numbers can't. Enjoy!

Blessings, Dean
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