Word problems
Everytime I open a Word document, every document on my computer opens. How do I make it stop?, Every time I open a Word document, every document on my computer opens. How do I make it stop?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Everytime I open a Word document, every document on my computer opens. How do I make it stop?, Every time I open a Word document, every document on my computer opens. How do I make it stop?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Thank you for helping me find the utilities folder. I tried putting in the commands, but it didn't work. I kept getting "Command not found" or "too many arguments". I'm assuming I did it incorrectly.
I have posted on the MS forum, but no luck yet.
I just tried the commands that disguise posted - too many arguements with the
cd ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.Word.savedState
Maybe he/she will post again.
I did find the directory that he/she has suggested moving:
It's in your User>Library folder (to access your user Library, go to Finder and hold down the option key while clicking on the Go menu). Maybe he/she just means that you should move that folder to the Desktop (with Word closed) and then reopen Word and see if you've the same problem. If so, then you could always just put it back. No need to go through Terminal, it seems.
Clinton
The "too many arguments" error message refers to the fact that the "Saved Application State" folder has blank spaces embedded within it. The C-shell parses the "cd" command and finds too many arguments. This is my fault for not making this clear. Sorry.
In general, what I was recommending you to do was to move the file "windows.plist" in the folder
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.microsoft.Word.savedState
to ~/Desktop
Now I need to clarify that ~ (tilde) gets translated by C-shell to the users home directory - for example
~/Library gets translated to /Users/Kigali/Library
(For more information - you should read up on the C-shell)
To remedy the situation - you can follow Clinton's lead and use "Finder" to perform the same function
that I originally prescribed. Hope this helps
Holding down the shift key while clicking to open a document seems to do the trick. Not exactly an idea situation, but the only thing that has worked so far.
Thank you for all of the tips and advice.
To enter the folder name so Terminal will read it, either enclose the name in quotes ("Saved Application States")
or escape the spaces with backslashes (Saved\ Application\ States)
Word problems