On Mar 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
The settings:
MacMini3,1, OSX 10.5.8, Appleworks 6.2.9 ( I know, and older piece
of software)
For more than a decade, I used to paste a ".pictClipping" graphic
into my Appleworks word processor files (CWWP type).
Worked without ANY problems, also in OSX 10.5.8
The Problem
Now I have bought a new Mini, on which AW still works great, but
with one nasty exception:
I leave the cwwp file for going to the Finder for opening the
clipping and copying the content to the clipboard.
When returning to AW, before I even activate any command, AW freezes
(I have actually to kill it, because it hinders a reboot). Following
the AW freeze, all other apps which are open freeze in turn one
after the other, the Finder at the end. I have to reboot.
- If I drag the clipping to the cwwp file instead of going to the
clipboard, AW behaves completely regularly.
- I have made every thinkable exercise
(access repairing, house cleaning like cache/log/font removing,
rebuilding all databases, even set up a brand new OS).
- The freeze produced a report, but I'm not skilled enough to
interpret that. I nevertheless annex it hereunder.
Is there somewhere an expert, which also uses so old software as me??
Thanks for a hint.
Both the symptoms and the crash dump seem to indicate that the problem
is with clipboard processing. What do you use to "open the clipping
and copying the content to the clipboard?" The Finder? Whatever it
is, it seems to be storing some sort of damaged data. As each
application comes forward, it attempts to import the clipboard with
the bad data in it, and malfunctions because of it. How about
dragging the clipping to Preview and copying it to the clipboard from
there?
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