Appleworks lags opening new word or spreadsheet pages

Question

I just created a new user acct, and the pages open very fast, but in regular user acct, I click on spreadsheet to make a new page and I get the beachball, and takes awhile to open. what prefs can i delete safely, or is it something else?

Answer 1

If you use an interface utility such as OnyX or Cocktail in your admin
account, that may speed up that account; choosing to run many of the
check box items in the Automation section so caches are cleared and
what used to be referred to as crons, run; etc.
You could also boot from the OSX installer disc and run Repair Disk
from the installer's Disk Utility, so you have the hard drive unmounted.
[Also, consider booting the computer in SafeBoot and run the Repair
Disk Permissions from the computer's built-in Disk Utility; then restart.]
Could be just a permissions issue and larger caches saved under the
admin/user account. Also, if you have alot of desktop clutter, put it into
a single new folder on the hard drive and access it via an alias on desktop.
There are other ideas; and perhaps if you are at a loss later, you'll see
a few posted here. Since you have another account that works, that's
a good first start. Could be routine maintenance is all it needs. I hope!
PS: I heard at some point, AppleWorks makes a copy in some
cache or file, of everything you did with it; perhaps that is an
exaggeration, but by clearing out that file, AppleWorks was said
to work better. Along with maintenance on the OSX, this is an
area worth further investigation.