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The Pop-up That Won't Die In Pages Tracking

Pages version 4.1 (923) running on Lion, OSX 10.7

When you turn on Tracking, an annoying translucent post-it pops up—no matter where you put your cursor. It tells you the last thing you did in the document, and when you did it—like that's something you need to know.

And it won't go away until you click someplace else in the document.

AND there's no way to turn the feature off. Really, I looked everywhere in preferences, and an Apple Pages specialist confirmed that on the phone.

I swear, it's as bad as the paperclip in MS Word.

OH! And on Lion -- the ****** thing stays on the screen when you switch apps. I'm looking at one right now at the bottom of the screen, while I'm in Safari. And it MOVES—now it's on top of this message's menu bar. It appears and disappears. To get rid of it, I'd have to switch pack to Pages and click somewhere in the doc. It's like a villain in Doctor Who.

Since there's no way to turn it off in the program, that leaves the terminal—which I've never used but am willing to brave if someone would be so kind as to tell me what the frak to do and how to do it?

Pretty please?

Or is there someone smart enough write an Applescript or patch?? I'm dyin' here.

Thank you in advance,

outlaw

MacBook Pro, 13"-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 6, 2011 9:44 AM

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outlawgal Author

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Aug 8, 2011 10:30 AM in response to fruhulda

I do have a pristine account I use for testing—but, it's not a preference issue, and it's not just my machine, or specific user configuration or corruption. Like I said, the support folks at Apple were easily able to recreate the problem. They have verified that it is a problem with the software as it comes from the factory. I'm just looking for a workaround, perhaps via terminal. The fact that it shows in Safari is probably down to Lion, say the Apple people. Thanks anyway.

KOENIG Yvan

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Aug 8, 2011 12:16 PM in response to outlawgal

Asfar as I know, I'm not well-known as a liar.

When I write that the described behavior doesn't strike on my machine, it's because it doesn't.

I installed Lion on a freshly formatted HD and installed only iWork as complementary set of applications.

I repeat that on such an install the bubble doesn't stay.

My signature describe the hosting machine. Compare with yours.

Maybe it may be a broblem with an hardware component.

During 15 days some users thought that Pages was the culprit for a problem which was in fact due to BetterTouch.

An other problem seems to be related to machines driving two screens.

Your problem may be of the same kind.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 8 août 2011 21:16:43

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

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

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To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

outlawgal Author

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Aug 8, 2011 12:35 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Holy smoke! I had NO intention to imply that you're a liar, honest. Sorry you heard it that way. No, I'm just saying that Apple—knowing my configuration and settings—confirmed it's a bug they found in Pages software and they wouldn't give me a tip about using the Terminal to disable that feature. I'm not saying that any of your words are false. I'm simply saying I'm looking for a Terminal workaround.

outlaw

KOENIG Yvan

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Aug 8, 2011 12:53 PM in response to outlawgal

And on my side I really doubt upon the accuracy of the Apple employee statements because we have no way to change Pages behavior with a Terminal incantation.

As far as I know, if it was a bug in Pages, it would strike on every installations, not only in some of them.

My guess is that the employee used a politically correct formula to tell you : "stop, I already spent too much time with your bubbles" 😟

I'm always reluctant to speak of a bug about a behavior reported by a single user when we are thousands.

It's what I wrote in an other thread about a behavior striking on three users machines.

I always try to be consistent.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 8 août 2011 21:53:33

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

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

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

The Pop-up That Won't Die In Pages Tracking