Re: Claris Works Problem

[processoroverclocked@33mhz.cjb.net (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article
<ctbishop-0310001232420001@pool0819.cvx7-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net>,
ctbishop@earthlink.net (ctbishop) wrote:

> In Claris Works--
> 
> I cant save a document as text anymore. When I ask it to save a doc as
> text, it says "file not found". I also get this message when I try to open
> a document saved from either a newsgroup or email. Claris is 2.1(?)
> 
> A month or so ago, I lost the system folder-the computer (IIci) wouldn't
> start so I overlaid a "copy" from a zip-disk. The computer works again,
> but there is this one (that I've noticed so far) problem.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be anything missing in the Claris folder, but is it
> possible something got munged?

Are you sure there are both ASCII and Text translators in that folder?

> And, as long as I'm here. Is there a ref book that would let me check all
> of the folders and documents and find out what I still need and what is
> trash? For instance, when I restarted and was checking out folders and
> such, I found saved attachments (from email) and the like when I thought I
> had trashed them-ditto for old faxes. There are a lot of folders, docs and
> the like that are taking up space and I'd like to identify and get rid of
> the ones I don't need.

Look for something called MacWorld Mac Secrets. It has a pretty good
chapter on what is needed and what is trash in you System folder.

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