[z|gzag]

My mom's been complaining about her appleworks and a few other programs not working properly.. Since my idiot of a PC using brother never did a clean format and install when they first set up her iBook, I took the liberty to do it now. Bam, Appleworks worked fine. She needed me to print something out for her this morning, and BAM! I get the beachball again.

It goes to where you select what kind of new document you want. Then, when you click on one of the buttons, it thinks for a second, then it won't respond. I updated to 6.2.9 to see if that would fix it, but obviously not

Please help me, I'm tired of hearing my mom's complaints :-(

[Moonray]

More and more people in these forums seem to think it's necessary to format a hard drive everytime they do a upgrade or major install something on a Mac.

That is plain WRONG.

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[Douglashh]

I would delete the AW preference folder and see if that fixes it. Also, have you run repair permissions lately?

Doug

[z|gzag]

Originally posted by Moonray:
More and more people in these forums seem to think it's necessary to format a hard drive everytime they do a upgrade or major install something on a Mac.

That is plain WRONG.

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It was reinstalled because the machine was having other weird problems as well.

[z|gzag]

Originally posted by Douglashh:
I would delete the AW preference folder and see if that fixes it. Also, have you run repair permissions lately?

Doug

Tried both of those, did not help... however now somehow its working, for no apparent reason... hrm...

btw. this is a post i made for a friend, i do not have direct access to the machine... but he says it did not correct the problem (I suggested those fixes, as well as trashing the AW user data folder). At least its working, I guess...