Lion and Keynote Problems

I have the same problem! with large presentations with videos Lion keep saving it every few seconds and takes for ever. Impossible to work with it!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Thank you all for your fantastic advice. I folllowed the steps mentioned by theriver and it worked!!!!!!

I will now fill in the keynote feedback page and then I can use my beloved keynotes again!!!

My suggestion for now would be keep your open main file , create a version on the side, remove all finished files and work only on one or two, then transfer back to the main file.

I just did the same - thank you - I had come to a grinding halt in being able to do a Keynote - and now can get back to "thinking different."

I am currently experiencing the same issue and I want to put my fist thru my mac. Never before have I had to experience such a major F$%&ing issue! I cant function like this...Where are the engineers on this? I cant add, change or present without reboots, crashes and typical BS that i left behind in the PC world. FIX KEYNOTE NOW!!! PLEASE APPLE....this is imppossible to live with!!!

Same issue. I work with Keynote more than any other app.

I work at an advertising agency and we do a LOT of new business pitches with Keynote - typically with very large presentations. This issue is absolutely killing us - to the point where we're considering moving to PowerPoint for Mac. Never thought I'd be at this point. Incredibly disappointed.

THIS IS THE FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM.

Downgrade to the previous version of Keynote and this problem WILL GO AWAY.

1. Find your iWork 9 DVD. If you downloaded iWork from the App store and do not have a disk, then you will need to find a disk. I don't know of any way to download an older version of iWork from the App store. Try eBay, try a friend, try the Apple store.

2. Remove iWork 9.1 using the script supplied by Yvan Koenig. Just deleting iWork is NOT enough - you need to clean up all the iWork files or this won't work. The script found on this server:

https://public.me.com/koenigyvan

Look in the folder called "For_iWork", then "iWork '09" and then download the file called "uninstall iWork '09.zip". When that has downloaded and opened, click RUN. Wait several minutes while it gets rid of iWork. While it's working the button will say "Stop" and when it's done the "Run" button will reappear.

The script does not remove your personal templates stored in your user/library/application support/iworks folder, so you don't have to worry about losing those.

2. Reinstall iWork 9 from your disk.

3. Next you'll want to update iWork to version 5.05. You can get this here. http://support.apple.com/downloads/#iwork.

There are FOUR update packages: 9.0.1, 9.0.3, 9.0.4 and 9.0.5. Download and install them one at a time, in order. Yes, I know these are version 9.0.1+ and we're upgrading to 5.05 - who knows what's with that. Just roll with it.

4. The first time you open any iWork app (Numbers, Keynote or Pages) it will ask you to upgrade to 9.1. DO NOT DO THIS and check the box indicating NOT to be reminded again.

Any time in the future that you do a software update it will offer to update iWork for you. Make sure that each time you DO NOT update iWork.

If it did not work, check the version number on Keynote (go to Keynote > About Keynote). If it says version 5.1 then you didn't properly uninstall the old iWork. If it says version 5.0.5, then it should be working. If it's not, then this fix didn't work for you and you should definitely post a message to this forum because you would be the first person it didn't work for.

Finally, if you have downgraded your version, then let Apple know by visiting the Keynote feedback page and providing information here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote.html

therivers,

Thanks for the information. However, this isn't a FIX. It's a work-around. Many of us purchased Keynote via the Mac AppStore and don't have the iWork installation DVD. For those of us in that situation, we're stuck with a product that is fairly unusable.

Do you know of a way to downgrade for users who purchased Keynote via the AppStore? Otherwise, we'll have to wait for Apple to address this issue or move to PowerPoint.

Thanks,

David

I'm in shock. I bought a MacBook pro the other day, downloaded iWorks, tested Keynote to make sure it could handle the video formats we were using and last night started putting together a presentation containing 25 odd videos for a large event I was producing this morning. I couldn't believe it when I then encoutered this continual saving problem which may have cost me a client of 14 years as we nearly couldn't get the presentation together for the event. All the work arounds mentioned involve reverting to older versions which I couldn't do with a brand new machine. However, thanks for the suggestions as I then got a supplier to bring in a 2 year old MacBook, old operating system, etc and the Keynote worked perfectly with the videos. So now I have a useless show machine! Great! I still can't believe that such a mainstream product can have such a flaw affecting so many people's business for such a long period. Is this my initiation to the world of Mac?!

Here we are months on and Apple still haven't resolved this huge problem. I'm not going with work-arounds suggested I just went wiped my hard drive and went back to snow leopard. I'd quite like to install Lion and also use iCloud but will not be going there until Apple resolve Keynote as my business also depends on this main stream software. If the problem isn't resolved soon I will convert all my existing presentations to powerpoint - period.

An iWork update just appeared in Software Update (iWork Update 6) that is supposed to improve Lion compatibility. I am unwilling to try it yet because I have a major presentation to give in 2 days, and my "downgraded" keynote is working fine right now. But, after that I will definitely check it out. Maybe someone else can comment on whether this update resolves the keynote/lion problems.

I don't see it. Checked Software Update under Apple menu, and also checked the App Store updates where I purchased it from and nothing. Is there somewhere else I'm missing?

I am more than willing to be a guineapig and test it out; as soon as I can get it....!

That is the prompt for the version you downgraded from. Don't accept.

HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE...DO what everyone is suggesting..

Keep LION.

Remove all files pertaining to KEYNOTE..not just delete but wipe out all root files of iwork.

Install iwork '09 and Downgrade KEYNOTE to 5.0...not 5.1

Set updates to NOT update iwork...EVER until this issue is fixed.

Once this all happens...YOu are back to perfect.

You may not like this solution because it is a "downgrade" but who cares!!! You are not giving anything up except for the CRAPPY auto save that is killing all of us.

DOnt look for a fix from apple anytime soon. This issue is a deep one and has alot to do with the way Lion was written...Follow the steps and your keynotes will be back to causing you no STRESS!!!

Just found this on another forum. Seems to work without downgrading Keynote.