[X-Apps] appleworks/word screw-up

[Judy Antipin]

John,
If the file was sent by email, isn't the original still attached to the 
email you received, or did you trash the email??

Judy

John Lowther wrote:

> 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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