[X Newbies] Appleworks and OS X

[C. Russell]

Hi Anne

I noted that you have used MS Excel 98..  and it works fine..  I run MS 
Office 98 on my G4/400 OS 10.2.8 and it works fine in the Classic OS 
9.2.2. mode.. I also run apple works on both systems, but I do not use 
AW for a extensive work... but have had not problems.  Running Excel 98 
in Classic would help keep you producing and in the your spare time try 
a solve the problem... I have found that installing a clean OS X also 
has solved problems. I see you are running OS 10.2 you should be 
upgrade to the latest update of 10.2.8. The update to a complete 10.2.8 
including itunes, Quicktime, iphoto etc is a very large file and will 
take some time...Consider the option of a clean  install before an 
update.

Russell

On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 10:56  AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, May 11, 2004, at 12:04  PM, Norman Cohen wrote:
>
>> Actually, the current version is 6.2.9 and is available at: 
>> <http://www.apple.com/appleworks/update/>
>
> Hi - As it happens I just bought AW 6.2.7 and am having terrible 
> problems
> with it. It crashes constantly, won't open files (says file is 
> damaged), etc. These
> are my personal finance master files so as you can imagine I'm real 
> nervous.
> Previously I was using Mac Excel 98 and it worked fine.
>
> I d/l the updater for 6.2.9 and no help. I deinstalled/reinstalled AW, 
> and
> now the updater won't update, says it can't find Appleworks. I can see 
> it
> right there in the apps folder, though.
>
> Apple says my next step is to do an Archive install, and I'd really 
> rather
> not. They think I trashed a system file when deinstalling, but I don't 
> think
> so. I've looked at my system backup and don't see anything system
> related I could have trashed - they're all AW5 files.
>
> Do you think the CD Apple sent me is corrupt? Is this version of AW
> very buggy?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Anne Keller Smith
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