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Please help! I can't open OS 9 anymore!
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My system is a G4 quick silver with os 10.2.8. I have a resume and cover letter i need to get out of OS 9 classic windows 98. I have recently installed word for the os 10 mac version so i'm wondering if this is any reason why this is happening.
Every time i try it to grab OS 9 classic i'm getting this:
Resource update error
An error was encountered while attempting to udate your system folder with Classic - specific resources
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why cant you just open the files in word in osx??
you're missing a component of os9, but...try the above first..?
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Originally posted by fisherKing:
why cant you just open the files in word in osx??
you're missing a component of os9, but...try the above first..?
i can't because it exists in windows 98 in os 9.
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Originally posted by dockpipe:
i can't because it exists in windows 98 in os 9.
 do you mean you're running Virtual PC in OS 9?
(Last edited by Macola; Aug 22, 2004 at 08:44 PM.
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So which is it? Windows 98? Or Mac Classic?
It can't be both, unless you're using Windows 98 inside Virtal PC inside Classic Mac OS, in which case, that would be useful info for trouble-shooting.
Otherwise, can you drag and drop the file onto OS X version of Word? If you don't have that, drag and drop the file onto OS X's TextEdit application (or AppleWorks, or OpenOffice, or anything else that can read Word files).
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Originally posted by dockpipe:
My system is a G4 quick silver with os 10.2.8. I have a resume and cover letter i need to get out of OS 9 classic windows 98. I have recently installed word for the os 10 mac version so i'm wondering if this is any reason why this is happening.
Every time i try it to grab OS 9 classic i'm getting this:
Resource update error
An error was encountered while attempting to udate your system folder with Classic - specific resources
sorry everyone. i'll start all over again.
I can't open OS 9!
when i click on start for classic os 9 to come up i get this:
Resource update error
An error was encountered while attempting to udate your system folder with Classic - specific resources
never mind all that windows 98 talk. this is what's got me veryt worried.
thanks.
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okay...you may need to reinstall os9.
MEANWHILE...why not open the files in word in osx???
this won't fix the problem with classic, but you WILL be able to access your work.
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Originally posted by fisherKing:
okay...you may need to reinstall os9.
MEANWHILE...why not open the files in word in osx???
this won't fix the problem with classic, but you WILL be able to access your work.
Was it only with the advent of Panther that TextEdit could open up Word docs? I can't remember if it came in Jaguar or 10.3...
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If by "in Windows 98" you mean Virtual PC, that doesn't work in Classic anyway; you'll have to boot in OS 9 if you want to use it.
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Originally posted by rmongold:
Was it only with the advent of Panther that TextEdit could open up Word docs? I can't remember if it came in Jaguar or 10.3...
Yes, it was Panther (my mistake). So he'll need to drag it onto Mac OS X version of Word, or some other OS X Word-compatible application.
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Try repairing permissions - if they're messed up in such a way that you don't have write access to the OS 9 System Folder, that could be why it's not being able to put the Classic files in there.
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