Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >I am using Appleworks 6.2.4 on a 400 mghz g4 and on a new 800 mghz ibook. >Both systems are running OSX 10.2.3 and both have more than 600mb of memory > >I have an Appleworks draw document, a 6 page newsletter. I use the same >document and just change the name and delete the old information and add the >new. > >The document has become corrupted. I can open it and change information and >save it. But when I close the document or quit Appleworks with this document >open I get the following message: > > The Application Appleworks has unexpectedly quit. > The system and other applications have not been affected. > >I can reopen Appleworks and reopen the document and make additons and >changes to the document but when I close it or save it the same thing >happens. > >I opened an earlier version of the document which is not corrupted. I >transferred my information from the old document to the new and everything >works fine. > >Any ideas why this happens? Any way to prevent it? > >Thanks. > >Harry, > > >Harry Jacobson-Beyer >Surveyor of the Passing Scene! > >http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ >What a strange, long, trip it is! > >remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast >you go coming down! > > > I don't think that kind of stuff can be avoided. I used to save those kind of documents as templates in AppleWorks, but I was spending too much time looking in the different groups because I would forget which group I put them in, so now I just have a folder named templates and keep them in there. I find it to be handier.
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