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Pages '09 no longer will access dictionary/thesaurus in "writing tools"

I got Pages from the App Store last month. I got the upgrade just before Lion launched. I installed Lion. All worked fine til yesterday. Then Pages stopped accessing the dictionary/thesaurus in "Writing Tools." Then I had quite a few crashes -- some other settings like my Desktop changed. I can boot up and didn't lose any data that I know of. Any suggestions about linking the dictionary/thesaurus to writing tools as it was meant to? Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 11:17 AM

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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 7:28 AM

I'm not sure what you mean by "Pages stopped accessing the dictionary/thesaurus in Writing Tools". Do you mean that the menu Edit > Writing Tools > Look Up in Dictionary and Thesaurus is no longer available?


If so, make sure you've got Pages in the correct folder on your hard drive. It should be in the /Applications/iWork '09 folder. If it's not, move it back.


If this isn't the cause the simplest solution is to delete your iWork '09 folder and download it again from the Mac App Store. You can download deleted apps from the Mac App Store by clicking on the Purchases icon in the toolbar, locating the app and clicking the INSTALL button. This should reinstall the latest version of Pages on your Mac and fix the problem.


Hope this helps.


Dale

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Jan 16, 2012 5:45 AM in response to nonoNC

I repeat that it behave flawlessly on my machine.

As far as I know, Apple didn't compiled a copy for my own use.

What you got in Instruments.app is perfectly noirmal.

Apple state:

Choose Software Update from the Apple menu to automatically check for the latest Apple software, including this update (Software Update might have linked you to this article to learn more about the update). If your computer is not up to date, other software updates available for your computer may appear. Note that an update's size may vary from computer to computer when installed using Software Update. Also, some updates must be installed prior to others, so you should run Software Update more than once to make sure you have all available updates. Running this update requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later.

So, it's not surprising to see code dedicated to 10.6.6 in the apps.

When they are used under Lion, they arn't supposed to execute these pieces of code.

I don't know which way they decide to use this or that code but given the behavior reported here and there, it seems that when the operating system was installed on an existing 10.6.x system the wrong code may be executed.

I never install a major upgrade upon an existing system to be sure that I will work with a clean tool. It seems that it's really a good practice.


Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 16 janvier 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

My iDisk is : http://public.me.com/koenigyvan

Pages '09 no longer will access dictionary/thesaurus in "writing tools"

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