Frank Gomes wrote:By the way, upgrading to Snow Leopard from Leopard has made AW very unstable. I find I have to restart my iMac many times because if I want to resize something. Scrolling to "Scale by Percent," I get blank boxes. When I put the percentage in each box, nothing happens. Restarting will restore the correct sizing window.
Hi Frank,
After upgrading the OS (or doing any major install) there are two things you should do, one for the OS, the other for AppleWorks.
1. Repair Permissions. Launch Disk Utility. Pretty much self explanatory after that.
2. Delete AppleWorks's Preferences files.
Quit AppleWorks. In the Finder, go to yourname > Library > Preferences
Locate and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist
Still in the Preferences folder, locate and open the folder AppleWorks.
In the AppleWorks folder, select and delete the two preferences files and the two cache files. Button Bar is also a preferences file, but is not usually responsible for any issues that don't directly affect the Button Bar. If you've made changes to the Button Bar, leave it.
Step 2 should be taken anytime AW crashes, as a crash often corrupts the preferences files.
AW quitting on typing a letter in an open menu could be a symptom of the Recent Items bug, especially if you've also noticed a recent slowdown in AW.
In the Finder go to yourname > Documents > AppleWorks User Documents > Starting Points > Recent Items.
Select and delete most or all of the items in this folder. The items are aliases to the original files, as indicated by the curved arrow at the bottom left corner of the icon. Deleting the aliases has no effect on the originals.
Regards,
Barry