djkowall wrote:Many thanks to Peggy and Barry. I'm going to try the flash drive method.
I'll probably finish out 2010 on the older iMac with AW and give the iWorks program a chance on the new machine (many spreadsheet templates to create in order to start the new year). If I'm successful (getting old and stupid here) I wont bother to move the complete AW program, just see if Roseta can convert the one or two single sheet spreadsheets I use (most are more than 20 pages) to iWorks Numbers with decent results.
Rosetta has nothing to do with converting files. It's function is to provide an environment in which applications written for Mac OS 9 and earlier, and ported to OS X (using Carbon rather than being completely rewritten) are able to run.
The three applications in the iWork (no 's') suite, Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, were all originally written for Mac OS X, and do not require Rosetta.
Numbers can convert AppleWorks 6 spreadsheets to numbers documents, Pages can do the same for AppleWorks 6 word processing documents, and Keynote can open and convert AppleWorks 6 presentation documents.
There are some third party applications that can open/convert AppleWorks Draw documents, and (I think) AppleWorks paint documents. Only AppleWorks itself is able to open AppleWorks data base documents, which is the main reason i still have AW on my iBook.
Regards,
Barry