At 01:33 PM -0400 08/16/2005, J Patrick Draine wrote:
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On Aug 16, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Don Hinkle wrote:
My wife's 800 mghz iMac, the volleyball version. OS X 10.2.8.
She works mostly in Appleworks, latest (last?) update.
Doing spreadsheets and word processing.
At unpredictable moments (according to her) it crashes or locks up.
I haven't really followed this thread, but...
Make sure AppleWorks is up to date.
Make sure your fonts are ok. A number of AppleWorks crashes I've
seen were actually because of broken fonts.
And finally, AppleWorks 6 seems to have a tendancy to "knot itself
up" by slowly corrupting files as you do a lot of edits. This
results in unexpected app crashes and freezes. My solution to this
is to periodically do a Save-As, quit AppleWorks, and relaunch using
the freshly created version of the file. This is especially helpful
with databases and spreadsheets.
Also, there's a bug which makes AW prone to crashing if you have too
many docs in the Starting Points/Recent Items folder. It is a good
idea to clean that folder out every so often.
Yes, definately. Annoying bug. It's especially noticable under OS 9.
HTH,
- Dan.
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