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[goodear]

I can't copy/paste with SimpleText or AppleWorks now. Mac, system 9.2. Also I 've noticed that when I open AppleWorks 6, or while working within it, it takes enormous amounts of time to perform certain actions - the little wheel that shows time passing keeps revolving until about a minute, then it is ready and willing. What could be wrong?

[Gregg]

You could try replacing your AppleWorks preferences. It's really easy.

Find the Preferences folder in your System folder, and then look for AppleWorks in the list. Just drag that to the trash.

Now go into AppleWorks and see if it's better. (A new preferences file is created automatically. You don't have to do anything.)

However, if you modified your AppleWorks preferences, those changes will have to be made again.

Post a Reply here to let us know if it worked or not.

[goodear]

Yes, it helped somewhat. Now I'm wondering,  to improve the operation of AppleWorks, can I trash some of the other AppleWorks items in the system preferences folder:
  AppleWorks 6 Assistant Prefs
  AppleWorks 6 Assistants Cache
  AppleWorks 6 Button Bars
  AppleWorks 6 Fonts
  AppleWorks 6 Preferences
  AppleWorks 6 Translators Cache

Secondly, wouldn't trashing ALL of the computer's preferences improve the overall operation of the computer?

QUOTE(Gregg @ Jun 22 2007, 12:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You could try replacing your AppleWorks preferences. It's really easy.

Find the Preferences folder in your System folder, and then look for AppleWorks in the list. Just drag that to the trash.

Now go into AppleWorks and see if it's better. (A new preferences file is created automatically. You don't have to do anything.)

However, if you modified your AppleWorks preferences, those changes will have to be made again.

Post a Reply here to let us know if it worked or not.

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[sandbox]

If your working in OS 9 there's probably a memory issue and appleworks is writing to the disk.
if you have many applications opened this could cause the memory shortage. Try working in appleworks after a fresh reboot and no other aps. opened.

[Xairbusdriver]

BTW, I deleted your other copy of this topic.

First of all, do not put preference files ( or anything else you might want to restore ) in the Trash! Just put them anywhere except where they normally reside, a folder on the desktop is great. The reason is, some programs may not even open if you remove the wrong preference file. If you put them in the Trash, you are only one step away from losing them. If you put them anywhere else, you can always restore them to their proper place. If things work normally after removing them, then put them in the Trash and empty it.

Secondly, in answer to your question about "trashing ALL of the computer's preferences", don't do that. You may find that nothing untoward happens but I wouldn't bet on it. And the only way to restore some prefs may be to reinstall the app or even the OS! If all does go well, you will simply have forced every app and the OS to recreate new pref files, most of which will simply be duplicates of what you threw away. There is usually nothing wrong with 99.9% of your pref files and often none at all, so the exercise is a waste of time and flirting with extra work or worse. If you're concerned that a pref file may be corrupt, it is much safer to use a utility that can inspect them and maybe repair them. That's easy in X, as they are all simple, XML text files, have no info about 9.

[krissel]

Depending on how much RAM you have installed you may want to give Appleworks more memory to work with.

First make sure Appleworks is not open. Then do a Get Info (highlight the icon or name of AW and then press Command and the letter i). In the window that opens change the Preferred memory number to something perhaps 50 percent higher than it is now. Close the window.

You may also want to be sure that Virtual memory is on. You would check that in the Memory Control Panel. If you do have to turn it on you will have to restart to have it active. The amount of VM only needs to be 1 MB higher than the installed RAM to work.  OS 9 made virtual memory work better than previous OSes.