Lion and Keynote Problems

Here is a summary of the forthcoming OS 10.7.2:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/22/os-x-10-7-2-build-11c62-seeded-to-developers /

While we wait for the release of 10.7.2, I've sucessfully tried to stabilise Keynote. I've turned off the "create a backup version of the previous file" feature and I have created duplicate versions of my keynote files that were leading the app to crash - then erasing the originals and working on the new duplicates. Everything works fine now!

My config: MBPro 15" 2Ghz Intel Core i7. Mac OS 10.7.1. Keynote downloaded from the app store.

I have been testing 10.7.2 GM which states it "resolves issues with Keynote not responding". Sorry to say this DID NOT resolve any of the issues I have had working with large Keynote file.

What a nightmare. The larger Apple get the worse their customer focus. They are slowly but surely turning into a coprorate disater like so many other IT companies.

Get back on Trcak Apple and do what you have alays done best - RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF YOUR USERS!!!

I totally agree, I'm not the slightest bit interested in iPhones or iPads at the moment I just want my computer to work as it should.

I keep checking every support group that I can find all over the internet in hopes of finding a way to kill the autosave function that Lion has thrown into Keynote. HAS ANYBODY FOUND AN ANSWER TO THIS HORRIBLE PROBLEM? Does Apple hear our collective plea for help?

Guys !! Any news regarding the lastest lion update with the issue to keynote !?!?!

I'm running 10.7.2 with Keynote and having all sorts of difficulties - not just in Keynote, system wide. Ugh!

I confirm 10.7.2 won't fix keynote 9.1 issue, I still have the beachball of dead. (or atlease me, not sure about others)

I already downgrade back to 9.0.5. It's a painful process at first, but after doing it for several time, now I got used to it.

Not sure if someone already posted, for those that'd like to downgrade keynote to 9.0.5 here is the steps:

** make sure you have your iwork disc

1. uninstall your current iwork (simple delete it from your application folder)
2. then go to your trash and permanantly delete them again
3. open finder browse to HDD > Library > Application Support and delete iWork '09 folder (This should erase the 9.1 upgrade, so it allows you to do a fresh install of 9.0.5 version)
4. Start re-install your iwork.
5. Make sure you don't update keynote

For no.3 if you can't find a HDD icon on sidebar, here is how to get it back in lion: http://www.ivanteoh.com/blog/2011/07/where-is-macintosh-hd-in-os-x-lion/

Hope this help!! Enjoy Keynote!!

Apichakris:

This will NOT result in an effective downgrade of keynote to 5.05. You will miss various parts of the program that are installed in the /library folder (and I believe elsewhere). The only way to do a complete and effective downgrade is to use the Koenig script that deletes the various other artifacts not found in the locations noted above. Alternatively you can download easyfind from the devon tech web site and do a manual search for all iwork and keynote elements and then delete them individually. This is much more time consuming than using the Koenig script.

If you do what is suggested above by Apichakris the reinstall will not overwrite some files and you won't have a true version 5.05. Sorry but the suggested method will not work.

...and in any case for those of you joining this discussion recently - a perfectly good work-around has already been explained earlier by Joel Hall - uncheck "back up previous version" in preferences, then make a duplicate version of a presentation from the file menu - discard the original, empty trash and all of your presentations may well be fine thenceforth. It has worked for everyone who has followed Joel's instructions so far.

I have been working on all of my video-rich presentations with no issues.

Remember to save a version before actually presenting to prevent autosave making your animations laggy.

come on apple - sort this out. cant believe this upgrade has killed keynote!!!

I wouldn't classify Joel Hall's workaround as "perfectly good", since it didn't work for several of us. I followed the directions to a T, and still had the same probelem, and went through it with 4 others at work. It suceeded for 1 of them, so I'm confident that I know how to do it; didn't work for the other 3.

I've been doing fine since I went to 9.0.5, and I'll keep up with that until Apple gives us a real solution.

No kidding! Keynote was hard to use before. Now it's UNUSABLE under 1.0.7.2.

Every time I try to drag an image to a slide, the program locks up and I must force quit.

Back to PowerPoint I guess.

Un freakin' believable. Upgrade to 10.7.2 last night and my keynotes have been COMPLETELY locking up the ENTIRE machine!!! To the point that I have had to force shut down the whole computer - while in front of my freakin' audience!! I DO PRESENTATIONS FOR A LIVING!! This is now impacting my career.

Seriously... This needs to be fixed ASAP! Apple... I need resolution on this matter. It can not wait as I am now experiencing a direct impact as a result of your recent update.

You are right - not perfect. I tried to stop notifications from this thread being sent to my email inbox but they are still arriving and I was getting frustrated (on behalf of all the posters who say "has anyone got a fix") because I thought that some of them may not have trawled back as far as the Joel Hall post.

I rely heavily on Keynote for my livelihood and Joels solution worked for me completely - still is. And my Keynotes are ludicrously video and animation heavy. I have even used them to make videos for a series of iPhone Apps that are about to be released as well as live international shows from which I make a large portion of my living - so when it comes to being reliant on Keynote I am!

So my post was really only to help those who, like me might get massive relief from Joel's advice.

Given that the big selling point of Mac is the hardware/software compatibility issue - and the fact that my business partner and I have literally every type of mac and macbook bar the big powermac, I can't for the life of me understand why it doesn't work for everyone else. That is why I tend to assume they haven't followed the instructions to the letter - but there are older machines out there I guess and different software conflicts.

Anyway - I thought that there would have been a proper fix by now - and that is poor (although obviously I won't know until the emails stop arriving!)

Hope you get back on track soon.

Best wishes

John