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Question

The old iMac is quitting on me?

Jul 8, 2014 11:08AM PDT

Greetings: I have a new-ish iMac and a very old one, OS 9.2. I use the latter for typing manuscripts and it is fine for that. I'm used to it and it's worked very well. However, lately it's making all sorts of clicking sounds and has gotten awfully slow. Today I spent all day typing and saving as I went along. But when I closed the file, I discovered I couldn't get back into it (Appleworks). I got a message saying it is "corrupted." I've tried everything to open it; disk repair, etc. but no luck. Before I give up on a day's work, can anyone offer any suggestions? Many thanks in advance.

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You may have to give up on a days work,
Jul 8, 2014 9:48PM PDT

If you have any other word processing software on that venerable iMac, you could try opening your file with it.

SimpleText or Word would be worth a try.

If either of those two actually open it, it will not be pretty but all you need to recover is the actual text, not the formatting.

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I'll try that
Jul 10, 2014 2:52AM PDT

Thanks for the advice. I'll try that although I'm not very hopeful. Now I don't trust the computer and won't do any more typing for fear it'll happen again.

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ATA hard drives are reasonably cheap
Jul 10, 2014 8:56AM PDT

You could, if you were handy with a screwdriver, take the old drive out and replace it with a new one.

An external USB case for the old one would give you a much better chance of recovering that file

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