Appleworks Crashes...

On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Paul Bradstreet wrote:

> Just set up our new iMac (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo), but Appleworks
> keeps
> crashing.

> Any ideas?

Not that it helps much, but I just got it working on a new iMac dual
2.0 without any problem. Perhaps try to trash the preferences file
and see if that helps.

Regards,

Howard

On 10/18/07, Paul Bradstreet <ozcaniinet.net.au> wrote:
> Just set up our new iMac (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo), but Appleworks keeps
> crashing. Ensured I have the latest Appleworks update, but it's
> crash-after-crash. Have kept my old(er) iMac, so I haven't entirely lost
> the thousands of AW documents I want to keep (some as templates). Not sure
> I would have upgraded if I'd known about this issue...!

There's a lot of potential causes of AW crashes on newer Macs and
Tiger. This page has a compilation of most of the causes/fixes.

<http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=372544&page=&vc=1>


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Nik

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On Oct 18, 2007, at 03:37, Paul Bradstreet wrote:

> Just set up our new iMac (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo), but Appleworks
> keeps
> crashing. Ensured I have the latest Appleworks update, but it's
> crash-after-crash. Have kept my old(er) iMac, so I haven't
> entirely lost
> the thousands of AW documents I want to keep (some as templates).
> Not sure
> I would have upgraded if I'd known about this issue...!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paul,
> W. Australia.
>
You must upgrade to version 6.29 of Appleworks. Available on the
Apple Site. It works on many of my client machines.
..lj