Not supported by this architecture
Hi All.
My Appleworks 6 was working fine yesterday afternoon. I moved all of my word processing files to a flash drive to free up some hard drive memory. It was doing fine until this morning. Now, I can't open Appleworks and none of my files are readable. I keep getting this message: You cannot open the application Appleworks 6 because it is not supported on this architecture.
The appleworks folder is still in my applications and everything. So, what's up with this and can I somehow retirieve the lost documents?
Thanks!
Dottie
I transferred my Appleworks 6 from my old iMac to my new MacBook using the same flash drive that I tried to use last night for storing my documents. My documents and Appleworks were both functioning and everything last night when I turned off the computer.
Hi Dottie,
I'm assuming "the computer" refers to the MacBook, and that you were running AW on that before you shut down.
I'm also assuming that you still have the iMac and that AW isn't yet removed from it.
If so, try this:
Remove AppleWorks from the MacBook.
--delete com.apple.appleworks.plist and the AppleWorks folder from yourname > Library > Preferences (folder)
--delete AppleWorks User Data (folder) from yourname > Documents (folder)
--delete AppleWork 6 (folder) from your Applications folder.
(AppleWorks may not have created some of these files/folders yet, so don't fret if you don't find them.)
ZIP the AppleWorks 6 folder in Applications on the iMac.
--Select the folder then go File > Create Archive
COPY the resulting zip file to the flash drive, then from there to the Desktop on the MacBook.
Double click the zip file on the MacBook to expand the archive.
Drag the AppleWorks 6 folder to the Applications folder.
At that point you should be good to go, but I'd take one further step before launching AW: Launch Disk Utility and Repair Permissions on the MacBook's hard drive.
Once you're satisfied that things are working, you should make a backup copy of the zip file, and to stay within the single user/single machine terms of the AppleWorks User Licence, delete AppleWorks from the iMac.
Regards,
Barry
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