![]() ![]() MacWrite debuted with the original Macintosh back in 1984 (that is over 30 years ago folks!) and was enormously popular in its day. This was the “AppleWorks problem” all over again, except that this time it was the “MacWrite problem”! When I went to open that documentation, a single file called GLA1-5.macwrite, I discovered that I couldn’t! I had no tools that would read MacWrite format, and could not gain access to the file. The problem? I was reinstalling a graphical load meter (GLA) onto my Power Macintosh 7300/200 and wondered if its documentation might provide any insights into how best to tune its behavior. I recently encountered my own “AppleWorks problem”, and Chubby Bunny notwithstanding, I found myself struggling for a solution. ![]() Fair enough, and a great introduction to the world of emulators as well. The solution that was positioned for this problem was to install a Mac OS 9 emulator onto your current Mac, install AppleWorks into the emulator, and voial! access restored. That problem, simply stated, was how to regain access to older AppleWorks documents that could no longer be opened with current tools. In this very blog, not so many posts ago, I introduced readers to Chubby Bunny, a Mac OS 9 emulator that I had seen positioned as the solution to the “AppleWorks problem”. Any thoughts or or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Synopsis: Have some older MacWrite files that you want to regain access to? The prescription to open these older files is to change their Type and Creator codes to WORD and MACA, and then open them with either BeagleWorks or MacWrite II, both of which will execute successfully on a Power Macintosh under Mac OS 9.1. But then I would be giving up macOS Sierra's security enhancements. I could roll back my machine to El Capitan. However, using Go from the menu bar for these two folders results in the following error message: "The operation can’t be completed because the item can’t be found.". ![]() It allows me to navigate to Desktop and Documents by clicking on the Sidebar icons. ![]() Dragging these folders from the external drive to the Finder Sidebar partially works. Regrettably, this process did not work for Desktop and Documents. I have been able to restore alias functionality for Movies, Music and Pictures by deleting the old folder aliases and creating new ones. And for both check boxes the folder icons were partially hidden behind the check boxes. In Finder Preferences, Desktop and Documents had a dash in the associated check boxes. Given my configuration I am not using iCloud to store any data, nor have I activated Optimize Mac Storage. Only the OS resides on my Mac Pro's SSD (Late 2013). I use aliases with external hard drives as I have several TBs worth of data. Has anyone had any difficulty with aliases in macOS Sierra? Upgrading to Sierra from El Capitan broke all my folder aliases (Desktop, Documents,Movies, Music and Pictures). ![]()
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