AppleWorks
The venerable old AppleWorks Suite still keeps chugging along. It does work in Snow Leopard OS X 10.6, but there are a few things to know.
Requires Rosetta
Because AppleWorks has not been updated in a long time, it contains old code components and requires Rosetta to be installed to run. Leopard 10.5 automatically installed Rosetta with the OS. Snow Leopard 10.6 does not and is an optional install from the install disk. If it was not installed and you launch Appleworks, the OS will notify you that Rosetta needs to be installed and will offer to download and install automatically.
Runs Slow
Because of the old code base and the need to run in Rosetta, AppleWorks will run a little slow and my show frequent “spinning beachballs.” One cause of this may also be the large list of recent items. AppleWorks stores these in a directory and indexing them may bring Appleworks to a crawl. The solution is to clean out the recents folder. This same behavior may be attributed to Auto Save items. To clear out these items:1)
- Quit AppleWorks.
- Remove the Recent Items in the folder:
YourMacintoshHD/Users/YourName/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/Starting Points/Recent Items
- Remove the Auto Save items in the folder:
YourMacintoshHD/Users/YourName/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/AutoSave
