[posthumanus]

when you change the name of a document while still writing it, appleworks will lose all your work, regardless of whether you saved during the writing of it

it just cost me a day's writing to find that out

posthumanus

[Tsilou B.]

What a catastrophic bug! I couldn't believe it, but my AppleWorks does the same thing.

[amazing]

Perhaps you could describe the problem a bit more?

Because when I tried v 6.2.9 the way I felt you'd described your problem, it worked fine.

Here's what I thought you said: You create a doc, save it. With the doc still open and having typed a bit more, you go to the finder and rename the doc. When you switch back to the doc, you're saying you lose the doc.

Anyway, when I did the above, it worked fine for me under 10.4.5: When I switched back to the doc after re-titling it in the Finder, the doc refreshed with the new title and nothing was lost.

[posthumanus]

Try this:

create a doc, save it.

with the doc still open go to the finder and rename the doc, then go back and type a bit more, then save it again.

then close and reopen. new stuff lost.

i'm pretty sure this is what happened, but it was at the end of a long day's writing and when it happened, my mind snapped.

posthumanus

[Tsilou B.]

As soon as you have renamed the file, AppleWorks notices that and displays the new name in the title bar, BUT:

You can change the document now without AppleWorks noticing that. That means you cannot choose the Save command or press command-S, because AppleWorks thinks there are no unsaved changes. And if you close the document, AppleWorks doesn't ask if you want to save, it simply discards your work and closes the document (again, because it thinks there are no unsaved changes).

You can save your work by choosing the "Save as" command - but if you don't know that AppleWorks has this bug, you simply press Command-S from time to time (AppleWorks does nothing) and later, you close the document and all your changes are lost.

It's really a very bad bug.

[posthumanus]

ok then: so i'm not that crazy after all

i should report this to apple but they don't care about appleworks anymore

[chris v]

Appleworks is abandonware. Move on to a quality word processor, like Mellel or Nisus Writer Express. It's worth a few dollars to do so.

[amazing]

sorry, I've tried the above changes to an APW doc, and it does ask if I want to save. For example, if I change the name in Finder, then APW displays the new title: if I type some more, and then close the doc without saving, it asks me if I want to save. So, I cancel, save the doc, type some more, and the "save" and "save-as" button are active and can be used. Closing the doc without saving brings up the option to save or discard or cancel.

what version system software and what version APW are you using? Have you tried re-applying the APW upgrade, or even re-applying the 10.4.5 combo updater?

meantime, even if apple seems to be abandoning APW, it's still a good, simple word processor.

[posthumanus]

latest versions of everything

maybe i've got a gremlin