? ? AW gets stuck while opening docs.
I have AW 6.2.9 in OS 10.6.7 on a MBP. Nothing has changed recently. However, AW started quitting unexpectedly and then all my AW docs started to get stuck while opening with a black and white rolling ball or a beach ball. This includes a crucial doc with all my contact info--passwords, addresses, phone nos-- in it.
I found and performed the following instructions from Barry who described them as "generic" AW solutions, while aanswering a poster whose AW kept quitting:
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Apply the all-purpose trouble-shooting steps:
1. Delete AppleWorks's preferences files. AW keeps a set of these for each user, and corruption of one of more of the files can be blamed for a large portion of AW issues.
In a Finder window, click on the house icon with your user name attached, then Library > Preferences.
In the Preferences folder:
-locate and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist
-locate and open the AppleWorks folder
In this AppleWorks folder:
-delete the two cache files and the AppleWorks 6 Preferences file.
-the AppleWorks 6 Button Bars file is also a preferences file, and may also be deleted. If you have made changes to the Button Bar, and have no issues involving the Button Bar, this file may be left where it is.
AppleWorks will create new, clean copies of these files as it needs them.
2. Delete all or most of the items in Recent items. AppleWorks creates an alias to every file you save and puts it into the Recent Items folder for your user account. It never does get around to removing these, and eventually just monitoring them clogs up the 'Works to the point of appearing to stop entirely.
In a Finder window, click on the house icon
with your user name attached, then Documents > AppleWorks User Data > Starting Points > Recent items
Delete all or most of the items in this Recent Items folder.
(Deleting the items in this folder has no effect on the original files—these items are just pointers to those files.)
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Regards, Barry
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Unfortunately, the doc in question now "appears to be damaged and cannot be opened". Fortunately, I had previously made a copy in MacPlus Deluxe in TextEdit. I tried re-installing AW 6.2.7 but was informed that I already have an intact copy.
What to do to restore my current AW docs?
Also, eventually I want to transfer all AW docs to a new program. Which do you recommend, and does that program automatically transfer all AW docs to its program or does this have to be done manually, one by one?
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