[X-Apps] appleworks/word screw-up

[John Lowther]

Judy
i thought of that.
nothing shows up.
it is as if the session in which appleworks quit simply never happened  
(almost, that is it did manage to vaporize a document).
but thanks.
jlo


On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 03:51  PM, Judy Antipin wrote:

> When you open Appleworks and go to the top 'file' menu, and then to  
> 'open recent,' do any documents show up? I recoveed an AppleWorks file  
> that way once.
>
> Judy Antipin
>
> John Lowther wrote:
>
>> so i am screwed?
>>
>> i know a good deal of unique text from the document
>> but searching for that text doesnt shake anything out
>> in fact
>> it will sit and spin for as long as i leave it there
>> (last night it was still searching 2 hours later so i stopped it)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 12:18  PM, hart at nasw.org wrote:
>>
>>> No help for your particular situation, but I've been stung by the  
>>> problem AppleWorks/MacLink have with Word translations enough times  
>>> to abandon any attempts to work in AppleWorks on Word-format  
>>> documents. What I mean is opening a Word-format document in AW,  
>>> editing, then saving, which doesn't change the format, but  
>>> translates back automatically. On the other hand, I have had no  
>>> problems in translating to AppleWorks, saving as an AppleWorks  
>>> document, then editing, then saving, then using Save As to translate  
>>> back to Word format.
>>>
>>> I'm using Word itself for a current project, and it's crashed enough  
>>> times that I keep daily (untouched) copies of all the files I'm  
>>> working on.
>>>
>>> If you know some unique text in the document, you could use Find by  
>>> Content to see if the file got saved to some odd place by accident.  
>>> AW does make backup copies in a special folder.
>>>
>>> Stephen Hart
>>> http://eugraph.com
>>>
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