Lion and Keynote Problems

Seeing similar problems here...

187MB Keynote presentation, about 5-6 of the slides have video embedded in them. After I'd added the video, I kept seeing the beacball every time I changed anything in the presentation, so I'm also guessing it's related to AutoSave doing its thing in the background. Annoying, as it really slows down your workflow.

Other than this, I'm not having problems with my Lion installation, everything else is working fine and at normal speed.

I had a similar thing, Keynote 5.1 kept crashing in Lion.

I also was having poor rendering of the presentation on the screen, and sometimes Keynote would crash while presenting.

It seemed to do it when it was autosaving. I still had the "Back up previous version" setting selected in Keynote Preference>General Preferences>Saving>Back up previous version.

I figured this was confusing the situation with the new Autosave and Versions, so I turned "Back up" off, and have had no further problems with Keynote.

I do hope this takes care of your problems as well, I was thinking I'd have to downgrade as the situation was untenable for an upcoming presentation. This was much easier!

Good Luck! Joel.

I have another type of problem on Keynote app in LION.

MOV files created on Keynote can't shown properly on Preview app.

Please see this topic :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3198449?answerId=15785677022#15785677022

Got excited just now thinking that this setting might also be causing my problems so rushed to Keynote to check and - nope, already switched off here. But thanks for the tip.

Unfortunately, this kind of setting tweak does not seem to solve the problem as I have already tried without success...Sorry to disappoint you, but we really need real solution.

I went back and looked at my files, I forgot to mention that when I made the change I also clicked on the disclosure triangle to the right of the document name in the title bar and selected "duplicate." It was this file that I was able to work on without crashing.

I don't want to get your hopes up again just to dash them again. I do want you to be able to use your Mac as you've become accustomed. I hope this is your missing link.

Best wishes. Joel.

The Keynote files I'm currently working on are less than 5MB, less than 30 slides. Most have charts, graphs and some tables and of course texts (no animations). I often get the spinning beach ball and the only way to recover is to force quit it. This always happen when I have at least two Keynote files open at the same time (the other being less than 5MB also).

Now I'm just working with one file and so far it has been an hour of editing and Keynote hasn't crashed yet. This is not good though since I need the other Keynote files open for reference.

Hi Joel,

Thanks for your tip! Making a duplicate file works for the presentation! I have made most of the slides, so only concern I had was freezing while I am on presentation. At least this duplicate file can make through the presentation as it is not saved yet (auto-save is not operational, I suppose). While modifying or making slides in this copy file also does not cause any temporal freezing or spinning beach ball, although if it is crashed, you will lose the slides you have made. It is just a work around with a risk, but it works for now. Thanks!!

Yoshi

Hello

My issue appears to be having 2 keynote files open at the same time. When a single file it is more stable. I haven't tested extensively but wondered if anyone else could isolate having two (or more) files being the issue.

Regards

Dale

You can delete all iwork apps with app zapper, reinstall and iwork apps will open, the trouble is nothing will save or close. All you get is the spinning ball. SL is the only solution.

I don't back up with time maching either, it doesn't give enough options and hides way too much of the process, I back up with Chronosync, much better.

Keynote is not compatible with Lion, you will have to go back to SL, and hope Apple can deal with this quickly.

Can anyone actually work on Keynote and save and close?

Can anyone actually work on Keynote and save and close?

I can, and apple called me wanting to talk about "my problem" based on contributing to this discussion. I told the rep to call some of the other folks, as I don't have any issues. So it does seem that Apple is on the case...

WobWong wrote:

Can anyone actually work on Keynote and save and close?

Yes, I'm working in Keynote just like I was able to work in SL. And, with the 5.1 update I have the Anvil build that I've been waiting for since I first saw it in an Apple Keynote presentation several years ago- I said at the time, "I've got to have that!" I've been using Keynote since the first version and have seen my future builds in Steve's Keynotes. ::grin::

I'm able to open multiple documents, save manually or allow autosave, and display the presentation. I do make sure if I have any unsaved changes that I save them before "playing" the presentation.

I notice Keynote takes a few moments to load the first time after a reboot (just like in SL, and Leopard as far as I can remember). I let it start up to the Theme Chooser and then quit Keynote, then open the app again- this time it's much quicker. Then I open my document. I don't necessarily think this make it work better, but it is something I've done for some time.

Again, about the first dozen times I used Keynote in Lion it was spinning the beachball, and I was having to force quit. When I changed Keynote's preference to not "backup the previous version" and duplicated the document from the title bar and used the duplicate, I've not had a crash since.

It seems the transitions and builds are sharper and more impressive than than the previous version in SL.

Good luck. Joel.