Appleworks Preferences change won't hold

Question

This is not really a problem - it just requires time to keep redoing the same thing. Every time I restart my iBook, I need to reset Appleworks Preferences > General > At Startup, Show: 'Nothing', and then click the option box to show "Font Menu in Actual Fonts." I then click "OK". But the next time I shut down, and later restart, it has reverted back to the defaults. How can I get my changes to hold so that I don't need to keep making the preference changes again and again?
Thanks!
Barb

Answer 1

Hello
Save the script as an application and store it where you want.
Open the System Preference named (in french) "Comptes".
Click the tab named (in french) "Ouverture".
Drag and drop the script's icon in the area containing the list of apps to open at startup.
At the very end of the script listing you may read:
From the Script Editor, save this script as an Application.
Before using it, quit Appleworks 6,
trash your AppleWorks preferences files:
"com.apple.appleworks.plist" ( OS X only )
"AppleWorks:AppleWorks 6 Assistants Cache"
"AppleWorks:AppleWorks 6 Preferences"
"AppleWorks:AppleWorks 6 Translators Cache"
-- "AppleWorks:AppleWorks 6 Button Bars"
Restart AppleWorks.
Reset your preferences and rebuild the button bar as you want.
Quit AppleWorks. Now you have CLEAN preferences files.
Open the folder "Preferences:AppleWorks"
Create a subfolder named: "AWprefsBackup"
Copy in it the five CLEAN prefs files already listed.
Now you will be able to use the script.
Each time you will call it, it will replace the "in use"
preferences files by copies of the clean stored ones.
So you will be free of preferences corruption.
Thanks to Dale GILLARD who gave me the info
allowing me to grab the pathname of the "in use" preferences folder.
MORE:
I have added two resetted preferences files:
"com.apple.applescript.plist"
"com.apple.ScriptEditor2.plist"
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 19 septembre 2006 07:17:43)