Appleworks won't launch

getting prompt, "appleworks could not be launched because of a shared library error"
I have an eMac 10.411 and appleworks 6.2 I believe. Happened once before and Mac store
did something to make Appleworks load at start up and that has worked fine for about 6 months until
yesterday.. Help !

See this user tip.

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Welcome to Apple Discussions Ken
Although it would appear that Suitcase was the cause of you not being able to launch AppleWorks, I think that may only be a small part. As OS X is upgraded & updated, AppleWorks seems more & more sensitive to a couple of long-standing issues. The first is the "Recent Items bug" that can cause tremendous slow-downs to the point that AppleWorks won't launch. Take a look at the top post in this forum, especially my post, Peggy, "always waiting for spinning lolipop" #1, 03:59pm Sep 13, 2004 CDT, with links to three user tips about recent items. The second is the need to trash the AppleWorks preferences after applying a system update. My user tip, AppleWorks has stopped working correctly, has more on preferences.
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I click on the icon and it just bounces and then stops.
1) I emptied my recent items folder
2) dragged the applworks icon from the dock to the desktop and then reinstalled it from the finder/applications section onto the dock
To no avail and I can't figure out why it won't work now. My eMac is pretty full- is there a minimum amount of memory needed to run it? (663.5 MB available)

Try a couple of maintenance tasks, one for the system (Repair Permissions) and one for AppleWorks (delete preferences). (Thanks to Barry for this way to format this very common answer.)
To Repair permissions, launch Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder, click on First Aid, then on Repair Permissions.
To delete AppleWorks’ preference files, go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences. Find and delete the file com.apple.appleworks.plist. Find and open the folder AppleWorks in this Preferences folder, then delete all of the enclosed files (with the exception of the Button Bar Preferences if you have customized the Button Bars). AppleWorks will recreate the preference files as it needs them.
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Well that sounds like it could work...and I really should get a backup...
BUT!
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