Pages 11.0 freezing, hanging in OSX 10.15.7

GARMIN EXPRESS 7.4.1.0 incompatible with PAGES 11.0 in OSX 10.15.7

Nicholas_B2:

I had done everything but the final item, so I just ran Apple Diagnostics. Thanks, I’ll definitely remember adding that to my list — AFTER my double duhhh at bottom — for any future problems.

Apple Diagnostics indicated no issues, so I did a simple re-start.

Upon start-up, THOUGH IT’S NOT AMONG MY START-UP ITEMS, Pages started up (quickly this time) and opened the two most recent items I had been working on, though neither was today (and though, likewise, neither document was in my start-up items).

So I checked my start-up items, and noticed that a recently installed program, Garmin Express, had somehow added itself (I’m 100% certain I did not add it to the start-up items), so I deleted it from the start-up items (I had actually deleted this program — using AppCleaner — when the Pages issue began, as I had installed it a few days previous, but that had no effect the Pages problem, so I had re-installed it).

After quitting Garmin Express, Pages then started in seconds and opened documents normally, so I quit Pages, started Garmin Express (7.4.1.0, a no longer supported software for a GPS I recently purchased for a 2007 vehicle), then started Pages — the issue re-emerged, but disappears whenever Garmin is not running.

So, yeah, double duhhhhh: not only hadn’t I noticed the Garmin icon in the dock indicating it was running, but had also neglected the basic troubleshooting step of trying Pages after being certain no other software was running.

I RESCIND PREVIOUS MESSAGE ;-)

The problem has returned this morning, if anything worse than before.

Once I manage to get Pages to open, usually after multiple attempts, it freezes multiple times after nearly every action (even a single click) in a document. Finally it runs long enough for me to accomplish something.