Lion and Keynote Problems

Glad this worked for you but I tried it and it was not a solution for me. I'm sticking with 5.05 until there is a sure fix.

Hey Guys,

I found a good solution. Just erase your HD and install the SL and everything works just fine! I know it is a dirty job but all of you gotte do it!!!!

I realy did that and I slept like a baby last night.

Chears

I really appreciate the time you all have taken to share your expericences regarding this Keynote/Lion issue. I am still having problems after trying a couple of the suggestions. I really don't want to wipe out the HD and start over etc. I was wondering if anyone could post a "direct" phone number of who they taked to at Apple that asked for their presentation(s). I have a number of large presentations with media clips etc that I use for teaching and would not mind sending them to Apple if they could walk me through the "how to do it". Again, thank you for your post. This problem is killing me in my classes. Doc

This is the only solution that works. And it does work! Downgrade iwork to version 5.05. This is the version without autosave. You willhave the minor issue of ignoring software update attempts to get you to upgrade. But powerpoint 5.05 works just fine in Lion. Thrre are no issues with it.

I just bought keynote last night from the app store so I'm guessing there's no way to downgrade? I'm new to most things mac, and I was working on a presentation in keynote, and in iwork.com. I was trying to save a presentation back to my computer from iwork.com and the gray bar at the top of my screen disappeared, some of my apps closed, and my keyboard was non-responsive. Don't know if it has anything to do with incompatibility btwn lion and keynote- but it freaked me out. I ALWAYS get lemons when I buy new computers.

I have a 12 core Mac Pro with 32 Gigabytes of RAM and 2 Terabytes of HD. I started a blank document in keynote, and after just adding 1 small video (6 seconds B/W video, med resolution, about 3 Mb) keynote started delay for every selection I make, constantly saving, almost impossible to use. I need a solution for this.

It is taking very long to find a solution for something that worked in the past with no problems.

See my post above. The only fix that actually works is to downgrade to keynote 5.05 (the version without the autosave). I have a mac pro 1,1 w/ 10 gig of memory and my working drive of 1.5 gig has 250 gig of files. Keynote 5.1 is a total failure on any file with any video or audio as you point out. I have done the downgrade and keynote 5.05 with Lion is just fine. That version does not have the autosave. At least with that version you can schedule your timeouts. Also, I have noticed (but haven't done a benchmark because 5.1 is banned from my machine until a fix) that with 5.05 saves seem to take about 1/2 to 1/4 of the time they do with the uncontrollable autosave of 5.1. The downgrade solution to 5.05 does work. Look for an earlier post of mine in this discussion for explicit directions on how to do the downgrade. Good luck. Given that the downgrade works I'm not so desperate for a solution now. I can do what I need to do and my students will be able to enjoy my oh so masterful presentations now.

I took fuzzydogs advice and reinstalled iWork 9 from my disk and upgraded to 5.05 and it works great. I have some of the new features of lion and I have all of the functionality of keynote on snowleopard! THANK YOU FUZZYDOG!

Follow his advice from a previous post on:

Uninstalling

Reinstalling

And upgrading to 5.05 instead of 5.1

THANK YOU!

I teach marketing at a large university and switched to Mac about 4 years ago specifically because of Keynote and its ability to work with multi-media. I have hundreds of Keynote presentations, many over 1GB. I have been completely caught off guard by the incomaptibility of Keynote with OSX 10.7. I can't believe that Apple has not directed its significant resources to address this problem. Obviously, they don't care enough to bother.

On the other hand, it gives me another kind of classroom material. I can talk about the transition of entrepreneurial companies from creative innovation and a customer-centric mindset to profound arrogance.

I totally second your point of view, douglas153. I am a full professor, next week a delirium of lectures / lessons/ presentations begins, so am I in the need (AFAIU) of downgrading my macBookPro? Irritating waiste of time, as minimum. Many colleagues of mine are calling me to ask about the same problem.

I think professional software should have a priority when a new OS release is thrown on the market, as to the necessary compatibility tests.

It is the first time i have to face such a severe problem in my academic career since I have been using Macs. What I really ask you is: does the solution suggested by "David likes his Mac" ((also I did, at least up to now, David...) really work? If yes, I shall do it, praying that a more radical, definitive version is released ASAP.

Thanks

Fernando Zarone (University of Naples "Federico II").

fuzzydog, could you please let me know where to find the 5.05 update file? I would like to downgrade, but have not found a source up to now...

Apple downloads and search for iwork. Here is the site.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1436

Thanks!

Going to do the downgrade...

To get ready for class at the university, my last disparate act was to open the old presentation along with a new, blank template. I then dragged and dropped the old slides a few at a time into the new one, saving along the way. It was a tedious exercise. I've tried to get it to work for others, but they did not have the same success so I'm not sure if this is really a solution.

Maybe Apple is telling us to switch back to PowerPoint. I think what angers me most is that it's becoming a typical Apple non-response. Instead of acknowledging a problem and offering short-term solutions and a timeline for full resolution, we get nothing but silence from Apple. Where are they? Who is monitoring this? Who is telling us if, or when it will be resolved?

Once again, as I teach my students in business school, Apple is a powerful brand built around a flashy product design company. Apple may have stores with a genius bar and other superficial (and admittedly appreciated) offerings, but at the highest levels of the organization, the basic things, like openness, responsibility, commitment to customer service and supply chain management still elude them.

Go ahead Apple, tout your market cap as being bigger than IBM. But trust me, you are no IBM.

I teach as well and have found the downgrade works just fine. I haven't tried using Lion on a projector. I guess there will be some kind of adventure finding out what kind of screen settings are necessary.