Pages app keeps quitting unexpectedly

I’ve been working on a document in Pages. My process has been to copy and paste from items from Text Edit. I’m on the 10th page when all of a sudden when I paste onto Pages from textedit the Pages app quits unexpectedly. I’m able to reopen with a (report to Apple Box) but the same issue keeps occurring. I’ve tried to paste through the trackpad, and via the keyboard. Little help please. Made it to the very last page of my project.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Dec 11, 2023 7:15 PM

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Posted on Dec 12, 2023 5:45 AM

Hopefully, you manually saved and gave that Pages document a proper document name early on so that autosave was active. When Pages hangs or crashes that application execution state is saved and Pages attempts to reference that when you next use it. That can lead to an application that continuously crashes. To break out of that cycle, press and hold the shift key when launching Pages so that it ignores its last execution state, and should launch normally.


What was the source document type that you opened in TextEdit from which that pasted content was sourced, and what kind of content did you paste from TextEdit into Pages that caused it to crash?

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Dec 12, 2023 5:45 AM in response to MrBoston617

Hopefully, you manually saved and gave that Pages document a proper document name early on so that autosave was active. When Pages hangs or crashes that application execution state is saved and Pages attempts to reference that when you next use it. That can lead to an application that continuously crashes. To break out of that cycle, press and hold the shift key when launching Pages so that it ignores its last execution state, and should launch normally.


What was the source document type that you opened in TextEdit from which that pasted content was sourced, and what kind of content did you paste from TextEdit into Pages that caused it to crash?

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