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manuscript fell in the mud

by marc72 Dec 2, 2005 3:37AM PST

Any MAC gurus out there that can help with an urgent disaster...
First, my system is an OS X, G4. It came with AppleWorks 6 and microsoft office.

I have a book manuscript that I wrote on AppleWorks 6 (6.2.9) which suddenly became sluggish. It takes a full 3 seconds between keystrokes. When I open it, it presents a rainbow wheel that spins for up to a minute or more as it loads. It does the same after saving and sometimes on it's own in the middle of a struggle.

This virus or worm or tarantula has taken all my creativity out of the manuscript as last night it took 48 minutes to readjust one paragraph.

I tried saving it in Microsoft Word but that sends me over to my OS 9 platform and gives a window to choose several alternatives (text only, DOS, etc.) none of which will give me the manuscript. I saved it back to AppleWorks 6 and the words come back but so does the molases tempo.

My other manuscripts are not affected and they type properly; it's only this one document. I gotta rescue it but I'm not that computer literate.

Any paramedical help would be greatly appreciated.

many thanks in advance.

Marc

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How much memory do you have ?

by grimgraphix Dec 2, 2005 4:09AM PST

and is your hard drive almost full ?
Is this OS 10.3, 10.4 ?
Note book or desktop ?
You have MS word only for OS 9 ?

Will Victor leave Gina for Tracy ? and what about the brake lines on Susan's car ? All these questions and more must be answered on "AS THE HARD DRIVE TURNS"....

grim

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And then, from out of the wide blue yonder,

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Dec 2, 2005 4:34AM PST

comes Maction Man.
Faster than a speeding TCP packet, smoother than Firewire and able to leap tall iMac's in a single bound, Maction Mac thinks that maybe the Appleworks file is corrupt. Well DUH!
So, seriously, stand on one leg and open the offending file. Then, create a new, blank, Appleworks word processing document.
In the original document, Select ALL and Copy.
Move over to the new, blank, document. Click on it, anywhere, and then Paste.
Immediately save the document with a new name that is similar to the original.
Close both documents. Open the NEW document and see if the problem is still evident. If it is, then Maction Man has failed and will look for a tall ethernet bridge to leap from. However, if it has solved the problem, then Maction Man has once again conquered the forces of corruption.

Hope it helps

P

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(NT) (NT) Ok, Who dat pretending to be me?

by maction_man Dec 2, 2005 4:40AM PST

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