Appleworks Leopard Important Advice From Apple Forums

…Topic : Appleworks & Leopard This question is answered. "Helpful" answers available: 2 . "Solved" answers available: 1 . Replies : 12 - Pages : 1 - Last Post : Jan 22, 2008 10:57 PM by: Zelemenos MinnieMinnow Appleworks & Leopard Posted: Nov 21, 2007 2:58 AM Posts: 5 From: Wales Registered: I have just upgraded to Leopard. To my dismay, Appleworks will not run properly in Leopard- existing documents can be opened and altered Nov 21, 2007 but when you try to open a new one, or just open the program, a message appears saying 'The program has quit unexpectedly'. There is an option to report this to Apple. I have talked to Apple's phone support this morning and, after trying a few things, including the latest upgrade for Leopard, the technician told me that Appleworks is just not compatible with Leopard... This is rather a shame, I think. If anyone knows how to get round the problem, or how we can get Apple interested in fixing it, please let me know. Powerbook G4, iMac Mac OS X (10.5.1) Roger Re: Appleworks & Leopard Wilmut1 Posted: Nov 21, 2007 4:04 AM in response to: MinnieMinnow the technician told me that Appleworks is just not compatible with Leopard Posts: 9,976 From: London, UK This is nonsense: plenty of people have found that AW works fine on Leopard. However there are two caveats: the 'Recent Items' facility tends Registered: Sep 20, 2005 to fill up with aliases for everything you've opened, and this slows AW down - in Leopard this problem appears to be even worse: go to ~/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/Starting Points/Recent Items and empty it (do this regularly). The other involves your keyboard setting; Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu. Choose a keyboard layout whose Script is NOT Unicode. AppleWorks chokes on Unicode, and can use only a Roman script keyboard layout 20 inch iMac G4, 14 inch iBook G4 (10.4.9) GarageBand 2 Barry Re: Appleworks & Leopard Posted: Nov 21, 2007 8:53 PM in response to: MinnieMinnow Posts: 2,461 Registered: Jun Hi Minnie, 20, 2003 Welcome to Apple Discussions and the AppleWorks forum. Roger is correct in his assessment of the Apple tech's 'incompatible' statement. In addition to the two suggestions he made, there are a pair of maintenance tasks that should be done after any software installation on your Mac: Repair Permissions, and (if the installation affects AppleWorks in any way), Trash the AppleWorks preferences. To Repair Permissions, use Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility). Launch Disk Utility, select your hard drive, clic…