Carlene, When you want to open a file from with in TextEdit, when you are on the file press enter and that should work for you. If you are opening a file from the finder, command-O is the command. HTH. Keith Reedy On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:07 PM, carlene knight wrote: > Hi; > > The document did open fine from the finder. I hadn't thought of doing it > that way, but it works so evidentally I have some kind of strange issue with > Text Edit. Maybe I'll try opening the document with Text Edit after > rebooting again to see what happens. thanks Ignasi for your reply. > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Ignasi Cambra wrote: > >> Hmmmm this is strange. Try opening the document from the finder and let us >> know what happens. >> On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:51 PM, carlene knight wrote: >> >>> Hi there: >>> >>> I thought that command o was the way to open a document in Text Edit, but >>> obviously I'm doing something wrong. Every time I try it the program tells >>> me that there was an error when connecting to the server and then it >>> crashes and I have to force quit it. It didn't even want to quit last time >>> because it was too busy giving me that error over and over again. As soon >>> as I hit ok, it would pop up again. I know that it's probably because it >>> kept trying, but darn it, what do I do? I think that it may have been >>> trying to access Dropbox or Time Machine rather than my hard drive and for >>> some reason it was having problems. I lost some important information that >>> I had just typed in another window as I turned autosave off becaus of my >>> little "selected item 0 items replaced" issue. I've got to get used to the >>> fact that it is disabled. Thanks for any suggestions. I feel kind of >>> silly as I am sure I did something wrong.. Thanks.> >>>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>>> >>>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >>>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >> >>> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >