AW Recent Items.

[Chuck S.]

Did not see the below message in the AW Help List this morning.

Not sure what this says. Do I still have to delete the Recent Items list once in awhile or not? Is this the Recent Items list found in the AW User Data?

Tx, Chuck S.

AppleWorks would "unexpectedly quit" if we accessed the Recent Items tab on AppleWorks' Starting Points window. Trashing the Recent Items folder only temporarily resolved this problem. Eventually, AppleWorks created a new Recent Item that once again causes the crash if we accessed the tab. So if you upgrade to Leopard, (a) Delete your Recent Items folder, and (b) train yourself to not use that feature in AppleWorks.

[Barry]

Did not see the below message in the AW Help List this morning.

Not sure what this says. Do I still have to delete the Recent Items list once in awhile or not? Is this the Recent Items list found in the AW User Data?

Tx, Chuck S.

AppleWorks would "unexpectedly quit" if we accessed the Recent Items tab on AppleWorks' Starting Points window. Trashing the Recent Items folder only temporarily resolved this problem. Eventually, AppleWorks created a new Recent Item that once again causes the crash if we accessed the tab. So if you upgrade to Leopard, (a) Delete your Recent Items folder, and (b) train yourself to not use that feature in AppleWorks.

Hi Chuck,

The 'Recent Items' bug has been around since AppleWorks 6.0, when Starting Points (which includes Recent Items) was introduced as an AppleWorks feature. Anecdotal evidence indicates AW's sensitivity to this bug has increased with each new version of the OS X operating system.

That doesn't mean the Recent Items feature is unuseable (suggestion (b) above, but it does mean that occasional maintenance (cleaning out the closet) is necessary. Yes, you still should delete the folder or all or most of the items it contains.

AppleWorks keeps a Recent items folder for each (logged in) user of the application in Users/yourname/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/Starting Points/Recent Items
Delete all or most of the items in the folder, or delete the folder itself.


Regards,
Barry