Appleworks opening failure

[rgG]

Glad to hear it all worked out.

[LyleH]

Don C stated:
"Now, after the reinstall,AW will not open at all! It now gives me an erro message that "The file is locked or already in use." Since I am double clicking the application, not a file, I have NO IDEA what file it is that is blocking the startup."

The problem seems to be solved, but it seems worth mentioning that many OSX applications are in reality packages. If you locate the "application" Appleworks 6 and hold down the control key and then click and hold the mouse on Appleworks 6, one of the contextual menu items is "Show Package Contents". If you select this you will see there are many files in this "application". And, of course, any of these files could be screwed up or missing, which could create problems. Reinstalling the "app" should then actually reinstall all the files within the package.

LyleH

[Don C]

Lyle,

I sure had never noticed the package list before so I've learned something most useful!

However, the list of files does not include the files that were causing the problems, so it seems to be a partial list at best (nothing in preferences shows up and that is where the problems have been).

Thanks for the post, however. This is a tool I'll keep in mind.