[berg]

Hi there ...
I recently installed Appleworks on my Tiger machine ... updated to 6.2.9 ....
Everytime I quit it .... I get a "Appleworks has quit unexpectedly - other applications have not been affected" message when I just quit the app.
I tried to run ONyx but it froze halfway through the automation pane ... I have previously repaired the disk and permissions from the install disk ... and after force quitting onyx ... I ran Cache out x ...
Any ideas ???

[dougster]

Hi -berg,
This has helped at this end. Quit AW-->drag AW from the Dock (poof)->open Applications and drag AW back into the Dock. This will get you a new alias app. Let us know..

[berg]

Thanks Dougster for the reply ...
Unfortunately that didn't help ...... I thought it was odd that Onyx froze .... I hope that doesn't indicate other problems ...
Should I just reinstall Appleworks ?? .....

[dougster]

Hmm, sometimes that works. Anyway, I would try a couple things before a RE-install for the heck of it. Click once on the app AW (Get Info) make sure it says 'Read & Write', and trash AW's prefs: ~/Library/Preference/com.appleworks.plist...( I think you know where they are already) its worth a try if you haven't. I doubt the freeze damanged anything, but it is odd. If you have Disk Warrior that would be an option. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[DarthMac]

I seem to recall an AppleWorks bug that was solved by trashing the Recent Items aliases the app saves but I can't remember if it was a bug that occurred at start up or quit but it wouldn't hurt to trash them.
user > Documents > AppleWorks User Data > Starting Points > Recent Items >

[berg]

Thanks Darth and Dougster ... neither of your suggestions worked but I have a bit of an update ...
The files that cause Appleworks to "quit unexpectedly" when I close the red button or quit Appleworks from the File menu ... are Appleworks files that I got from someone else over email.
I just created some new files .... and they close fine! ... so I don't know what it is with those couple of files but i guess i should just live with it ...
Just for curiousness sake .. should i try trashing that whole User Data folder or other parts of it ?? It still kind of bugs me ....
thanks ....

[DarthMac]

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The files that cause Appleworks to "quit unexpectedly" when I close the red button or quit Appleworks from the File menu ... are Appleworks files that I got from someone else over email.
I just created some new files .... and they close fine! ... so I don't know what it is with those couple of files but i guess i should just live with it ...

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In that case it's probably a problem with those files rather than the app. Maybe something got stripped out when they were e-mailed.

[dougster]

-berg,

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are Appleworks files that I got from someone else over email.

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If your buddies are going to continue sending .cwk files have them stuff .sit, or .zip them which just might help the issue. They can pop them in a folder, and compress the whole folder. This will keep the integrity of the files. It certainly worked w/ older PageMaker, and Quark files.
[Edit] I agree w/ -darth...the snag is w/ the files not your AW