I am almost completely converted to OS X. Finally. The only thing tying me to OS 9 anymore is Corel WordPerfect 3.5.
I adore wordperfect for it's customizability,
bottomofpage-bottomofnextpage scrolling,
tilewindows,
clean horizonatalinepagebreaks (as opposed to 'here's a pretend piece of paper, grey space, new pretend piece of paper'),
print preview,
invisible margins,
hotkeys,
showcodes,
not to mention that I was actually *raised* in a wordperfect household and have been using it for as long as I have been using a computer .
The fact that Corel had dropped the Mac side of the project several years ago wasn't really an issue until OS X came along. Even then, I figured I could still use it in Classic. After it became clear that my darling was not quite as stable in its new home as it used to be, I began the search for a replacement. I've tried several other programs (Ullysus, Copywrite, Nisus, Mariner, LaTex, Appleworks6, off the top of my head, plus some others that didn't last long enough to make an impression), and nothing seems to have even *most* of what I want.
Recently I've gone back to using WP, but it seems like more and more compatibility issues keep popping up. The latest and most aggravating is an error that appears when I try to open certain files, or just when I leave it idle for too long in the background: "Disk Full Error (-34)"
The size of the file doesn't seem to matter; it will open a 934k file, but not a 96k file. I've got about 40gb of empty space on my hard drive. My disk is *not* full.
I've tried reinstalling from the original CWP3.5 disk, allotting more memory to classic, alloting more memory to WP (though that seems to have been undone by the reinstallation), rebooting, approaching the file like ninja...
basically, I'm stumped and annoyed. What I really want is a permanent fix that will make wp stable in Classic so that I can keep using my little darling forever'n'ever, but failing that, I really need to get these files open. I've tried opening them in some other programs, in a 'just checking' sort of way, with predictable success.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions someone here might be able to give me.
Thanks!
~molly
I adore wordperfect for it's customizability,
bottomofpage-bottomofnextpage scrolling,
tilewindows,
clean horizonatalinepagebreaks (as opposed to 'here's a pretend piece of paper, grey space, new pretend piece of paper'),
print preview,
invisible margins,
hotkeys,
showcodes,
not to mention that I was actually *raised* in a wordperfect household and have been using it for as long as I have been using a computer .
The fact that Corel had dropped the Mac side of the project several years ago wasn't really an issue until OS X came along. Even then, I figured I could still use it in Classic. After it became clear that my darling was not quite as stable in its new home as it used to be, I began the search for a replacement. I've tried several other programs (Ullysus, Copywrite, Nisus, Mariner, LaTex, Appleworks6, off the top of my head, plus some others that didn't last long enough to make an impression), and nothing seems to have even *most* of what I want.
Recently I've gone back to using WP, but it seems like more and more compatibility issues keep popping up. The latest and most aggravating is an error that appears when I try to open certain files, or just when I leave it idle for too long in the background: "Disk Full Error (-34)"
The size of the file doesn't seem to matter; it will open a 934k file, but not a 96k file. I've got about 40gb of empty space on my hard drive. My disk is *not* full.
I've tried reinstalling from the original CWP3.5 disk, allotting more memory to classic, alloting more memory to WP (though that seems to have been undone by the reinstallation), rebooting, approaching the file like ninja...
basically, I'm stumped and annoyed. What I really want is a permanent fix that will make wp stable in Classic so that I can keep using my little darling forever'n'ever, but failing that, I really need to get these files open. I've tried opening them in some other programs, in a 'just checking' sort of way, with predictable success.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions someone here might be able to give me.
Thanks!
~molly