[X Newbies] Disk Utility

[Michael Winter]

On Jan 17, 2004, at 4:08 PM, J wrote:

> Ok and what about not finding disk utility.???

Particularly for a newbie, I'd recommend having them boot from the CD 
and running it from there. I know you can run Repair Permissions on the 
boot disk, but I don't think you can run the disk repair utility on the 
boot drive.

It sounds like the problem is that Appleworks isn't able to open the 
file? If you can't start Appleworks, do a File->Open and open the file 
that way, I'd say there is a problem with the file in question. One 
other technique that may be of help is if you hold down the command and 
option keys while you drag the file over the Appleworks icon in the 
dock, it will "force" Appleworks to try and open it. That technique 
works to "force" any application to try to open any file, but the 
results can anything from no response, to a polite error message to 
garbage.

-Mike