[Macpartners] More Microsoft Word Issues

[Dante Roulette]

Have you repaired permissions?

-Dante.
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 10:38  AM, Omoleye Roberts wrote:

> I recently updated Microsoft Office X using the updates that Microsoft
> released, and currently my Microsoft Word won't open either.  I had 
> been
> using 10.2.6 for quite some time prior to this, and Word worked fine.  
> It
> doesn't tell me anything about CarbonLibs, however.  It just brings up 
> the
> error window that says "The application Word has unexpectedly quit. The
> system and other applications have not been affected."  The rest of my
> Office programs work fine. :-\
>
> I'm currently running 10.2.8 on my 667MhZ TiBook with 512 MB of RAM.
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Omoleye Roberts
>
> On 10/3/03 11:03 PM, "Chris Bobonich" <bobonich at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> I've had what seems to be the same problem and I can't open Microsoft
>> Word.  Did you ever find a solution?
>>
>> Bryant Vernon bcvernon at MIT.EDU
>> Fri Jun 13 01:16:00 EDT 2003
>>
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am running OS X 10.2.6 on a pismo laptop (500 MHz with 256MB Ram) 
>> and
>> have come across an annoying and seemingly obscure problem. After I
>> updated to 10.2.6 (from 10.2), I began to receive an error when
>> launching certain applications. The general content of the error is
>> "APPLICATION LAUNCH FAILURE: The application "some application" could
>> not be launched because of a shared library error: '<random some
>> application name><more random stuff about some
>> application><CarbonLib><>'" This error arises when I try to launch
>> Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Stuffit Expander (and possibly other
>> programs). I can, however, run Safari and Mozilla 1.3.1 without
>> incident.
>>
>> To compound the problem, I also receive another error when trying to
>> start classic under OS X: "Resource Update Error: An error was
>> encountered while attempting to update your system folder with
>> Classic-specific resources." This problem also seems to have developed
>> concomitantly with the upgrade to 10.2.6.
>>
>> Someone suggested that the problem related to improper permissions, so
>> I repaired the permissions (via the terminal & sudo repairpermissions
>> /), but the error still persists.
>>
>> After having searched google and the Apple knowledge base numerous
>> times, I have failed to find any information relevant to this error. I
>> hope that someone else has come across it and knows a solution, as I
>> loathe the idea of reloading the OS. I appreciate any help,
>> suggestions, or comforting words you can offer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> All the Best,
>> Bryant C. Vernon
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