Symptom
One or more of the following occurs:
- AppleWorks 6 is not available when you try to select it as an approved application during Macintosh Manager or Multiple Users setup.
- When you open AppleWorks 6 from a Mac OS 9 computer, an alert box with this message appears:
"AppleWorks requires a compatible version of Mac OS X."
- AppleWorks 6 will not launch from the Panels environment.
Solution
1. Log in to the computer containing the AppleWorks application as an administrator.
2. Locate the AppleWorks 6 application in the Finder.
3. Press and hold the Control key, then click the AppleWorks 6 application icon. A contextual menu appears.
4. Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu.
5. Open the Contents folder.
6. Open the MacOSClassic folder.
7. Pressing and hold the Option key, then drag the AppleWorks 6 application from the MacOSClassic folder to the AppleWorks 6 folder. This should make a copy at the top level of the AppleWorks 6 folder.
8. Rename the copy you created to "AppleWorks 6 classic".
When adding the application to users' approved application lists, specify "AppleWorks 6 classic" for those using Mac OS 9 or earlier.
Note: In order for a managed user to be able to spell check in AppleWorks, you have to create a new user dictionary in that user's Documents folder. For more information on creating a user dictionary, see technical document 50387, "
AppleWorks 6: How to Work with Dictionaries".