Is there a usable workflow for custom templates in Lion?

It isn't the template but the document opened from the template that is multiplying. There are numerous threads about saving, versions etc. on Lion in this forum. Have a look at them and you'll will find the answer to your problem. I can't give better help. I am still on Snow Leopard.

The first thing to do when you want to ask a question is to use the correct wording.

Like fruhulda, I guess that you use the word "template" for what is in fact a standard document.

Check your settings in the Preferences pane.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 5 novembre 2011 17:27:29

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We are all avoiding Lion so it is difficult to confirm what you are reporting.

If you have done suitable tests, it may be you have discovered a bug and should report that to Apple.

Are you saving the .template to the default templates folder or are you saving it somewhere else, which may be causing OSX to treat it as a normal document to auto-backup and version?

Peter

I apologize.

As I use templates every days without the described behavior I assumed that you were getting the replicates created automatically by the feature which I pointed. This feature has nothing in common with Versions.

In fact, on my machines, every document which is supposed to be used to create a slightly different version is saved as a custom template (not necessarily in the "My Templates" folder).

So, when I want to create a new document, I'm sure that I will not save the changes in the original file and I'm never annoyed by what some users are ranting against in several threads.

As most of the time I save my documents with the old package format, I created two flatfile templates for tests but they behave like the packages ones.

When I trigger one of them, I get an untitled document and I am urged to give it a name and a location.

May you try to run Pages from an other user account to see if it behave the same odd way ?

Last not least, I didn't upgraded a 10.6.8 system into a 10.7 one. I blanked my internal HD then I installed Lion on the blank device. After that I updated the system to 10.7.2 and grabbed my apps and datafiles thanks to Migration Assistant which extracted them from a clone of my old system made with Carbon Copy Cloner.

I apologize but I dislike Time Machine.

Check if you have Stuffit Expander installed. I know that if it's set to unpack automatically archive files, it create unwanted items but I never read something about such effect on custom templates. iWork's flatfile docs or templates are archive files.

Due to health problems, I will switch off soon.

Will be back tomorrow.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 5 novembre 2011 21:19:03

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PeterBreis0807 wrote:

We are all avoiding Lion so it is difficult to confirm what you are reporting.

You are wrong. The truth is at least (all minus one) because I am using Lion as my main operating system and didn't ran Snow since quite a week.

I got none of the oddities described here and there. This is why I took care to describe exactly the way I installed the system because quite every oddities stroke on system which were upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7.

In fact, at this time, my only problem with Lion is the fact that the button which allowed us to switch a Finder window from "with vertical left panel" to "without vertical left panel" (I know that I don't use the official wording but I'm running the system in French) is no longer available.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 5 novembre 2011 21:30:42

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KOENIG Yvan wrote:

...In fact, at this time, my only problem with Lion is the fact that the button which allowed us to switch a Finder window from "with vertical left panel" to "without vertical left panel" (I know that I don't use the official wording but I'm running the system in French) is no longer available.

In the US English language, it's called "Sidebar". Option/Alt - Command - S to toggle on and off.

Jerry

I've been using Lion as my primary OS on two Macs since it was released. There are "annoyances" but nothing that makes me want to go back to Snow Leopard or any other previous OS.

I haven't switched my wife's iMac yet, but I'm getting close. Every day I find more to like about Lion on my MBP.

Jerry