Hello,
This is my first Mac, bought it a few months ago and it has been easy to navigate for me but now that I have this problem I have no clue where to begin. I have journals, essays and recipes saved to my hard drive all written using AppleWorks, and tonight when I went to open up one of my poems an error MSG popped up saying that there is no default application to open the document with. I tried to find Appleworks 6 but it was nowhere to be found, I have all the Appleworks stuff on my computer still - all the little folders and what not that say Appleworks/something but none of them are the icon I need to click to open the actual application. It is strange to me that all the applications files and folders are still in my Hard drive but I can't find a way to run it.
I tried using textedit to open the document but that just messed up the documents, half the words are upside-down question marks and all those funny looking symbols that I have no clue how to even make.
I had the Appleworks 6 shortcut on my desktop (It might not be a real shortcut like in Windows, I might have dragged it from my Hard drive onto the desktop - can't exactly remember what I did in the beginning.) When I went to click on it it did not respond. It was as if it was an empty link, or something. I accidentally dragged it into my tool-bar that is at the bottom which has itunes, iphoto etc all in it. I tried to drag it back to my desktop and poof, it literally disappeared in a little cloud.
I need to access my documents and would greatly appreciate your help!
Thank you for your time taken in reading this.
Sincerely,
Vanessa
p.s. It's an iBook G4 purchased about 5 months ago with OSX, I'm pretty sure it's Panther and not Tiger. I just ran all the updates today so it's up to speed.
This is my first Mac, bought it a few months ago and it has been easy to navigate for me but now that I have this problem I have no clue where to begin. I have journals, essays and recipes saved to my hard drive all written using AppleWorks, and tonight when I went to open up one of my poems an error MSG popped up saying that there is no default application to open the document with. I tried to find Appleworks 6 but it was nowhere to be found, I have all the Appleworks stuff on my computer still - all the little folders and what not that say Appleworks/something but none of them are the icon I need to click to open the actual application. It is strange to me that all the applications files and folders are still in my Hard drive but I can't find a way to run it.
I tried using textedit to open the document but that just messed up the documents, half the words are upside-down question marks and all those funny looking symbols that I have no clue how to even make.
I had the Appleworks 6 shortcut on my desktop (It might not be a real shortcut like in Windows, I might have dragged it from my Hard drive onto the desktop - can't exactly remember what I did in the beginning.) When I went to click on it it did not respond. It was as if it was an empty link, or something. I accidentally dragged it into my tool-bar that is at the bottom which has itunes, iphoto etc all in it. I tried to drag it back to my desktop and poof, it literally disappeared in a little cloud.
I need to access my documents and would greatly appreciate your help!
Thank you for your time taken in reading this.
Sincerely,
Vanessa
p.s. It's an iBook G4 purchased about 5 months ago with OSX, I'm pretty sure it's Panther and not Tiger. I just ran all the updates today so it's up to speed.