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N.B. If you don't want to upgrade and are afraid one errant "update all" click will remove your installed copies of iWork '09, you're safe: like the iMovie '08
by itafroma 13y ago
N.B. If you don't want to upgrade and are afraid one errant "update all" click will remove your installed copies of iWork '09, you're safe: like the iMovie '08 upgrade, the new iWork apps are installed side-by-side with the old versions. If you update, you can find the old versions in /Applications/iWork '09.
If the iMovie '08-like SxS install is to be the judge of how Apple views the suite, iWork '13 is definitely meant to be an incomplete "reboot" that will mature and gain features back with time. Until then, if you need those features, iWork '09 is still there.
Interestingly, on the iLife side, iMovie '13 is installed side-by-side with iMovie 9, but not iPhoto.
- cstross 13y agoAlso note: Pages 5 has a File->Export ... option to export a Pages '09 version of the current file. So it's possible to get documents out of Pages 5 if you updated inadvertently and converted all your iCloud files, and go back to Pages '09.
- randomhunt 13y agoDoesn't that save a version with screwed up formatting though? e.g. logo in the headers missing
- charlesism 13y ago> but not iPhoto. I am guessing the photo database only works with versions of iPhoto/Aperture that are as new, or newer, as the app with which they were originally created.
- rbritton 13y agoYep. I'm a heavy Aperture user (~5-6 TB of data at this point). They change the underlying database schema about every other point update. There is no backwards compatibility there.