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From: Charles on 25 Jun 2010 23:37
I posted a while back about problems with my aging mac, having a bad
power supply. I was able to order a rplacement one, remove the bad
one, and install the new one and now it works again. Thanks for the
advice.

Now a 2nd problem. When using an Appleworks document, usually a
spreadsheet, becomes very slow, to the point that I can type faster
than the letters appear on the screen. In fact, sometimes letters get
left out until the software can catch up. I'm assuming that something
is overloaded, too full or the like, but I can't find out which and
what to do to speed up Appleworks. Any help?


charles
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 26 Jun 2010 07:49

Charles wrote:
> I posted a while back about problems with my aging mac, having a bad
> power supply. I was able to order a rplacement one, remove the bad
> one, and install the new one and now it works again. Thanks for the
> advice.

Good to hear that you succeeded!

> Now a 2nd problem. When using an Appleworks document, usually a
> spreadsheet, becomes very slow, to the point that I can type faster
> than the letters appear on the screen. In fact, sometimes letters get
> left out until the software can catch up. I'm assuming that something
> is overloaded, too full or the like, but I can't find out which and
> what to do to speed up Appleworks. Any help?

If you're using OS 9.x, then boot into OS 9.x. Here you need to allocate
more memory - 2x the std. in min. size and 3x the normal in wanted size.

On OS 9.x you also need to delete the file 'Claris Fonts List' /
'AppleWorks Fonts List' from the 'Claris' folder inside the OS 9.x
System Folder - and the same file must also be deleted from the folder
'AppleWorks' on OS X from userneme/library/preferences/. It is a known
problem that both ClarisWorks and later AppleWorks has this problem that
the fonts list get corrupted from time to time. So it's a good idea to
delete this file frregularely. - I do it myself apprx. once every 3
month or so, and have no problems with AppleWorks on neither OS 9.2.x,
10.4.x or 10.5.x.

On OS X it sometimes also /can/ be necessare to delete these two from
the username/library/appleworks
- AppleWorks 6-preferences
- AppleWorks 6-translatorbuffer
- And on OS 9.x from the prefs folder in the System Folder also
- Claris XTND List preferences [if i recall the name right - my OS 9.x
machine isn't connected right now.:-)].

Cheers, Erik Richard

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From: Wes Groleau on 26 Jun 2010 11:10
On 06-26-2010 02:16, Michael Vilain wrote:
> If you're running Appleworks on an Intel Mac or an older slower G4, I
> think you're pretty much going to have to live with this performance or
> find another software package.

Maybe it's a “feature” to help sell Pages. :-)

--
Wes Groleau

People would have more leisure time if it weren't
for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
-- Peg Bracken
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 26 Jun 2010 11:56

Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 06-26-2010 02:16, Michael Vilain wrote:
>> If you're running Appleworks on an Intel Mac or an older slower G4, I
>> think you're pretty much going to have to live with this performance or
>> find another software package.
>
> Maybe it’s a “feature” to help sell Pages. :-)

If so, Apple already waaaaay back in 1993 should have had the 'vision'
of making Pages... - This irritating 'feature' has been there right
since ClarisWorks 1.0v3...:-)

Cheers, Erik Richard

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NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com
OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org
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