Autosave interrupts working in pages.

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JF Grissom Author

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Autosave interrupts working in pages.

Hi,

While I'm working in pages, I'll be typing along, and then I'll get a beach ball while pages autosaves a version.

It's remarkably annoying and really has made creating documents in pages pretty undesirable.

I'm running Lion (10.7.4) and Pages '09 (version 4.1).

Is there anyway to make it stop?

I've looked around and can't find anyway to disable this "unhelpful feature".

Thanks!

Jay

3.06 GHZ 24" iMac (I love this machine, really really), Mac OS X (10.5), Dual 1.2 G4 MDD, 20GB Touch Wheel iPod, 2 3GS iPhones, G5 iMac

Posted on Jun 14, 2012 10:33 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 14, 2012 10:58 PM in response to JF Grissom

Menu > Apple > System Preferences > Time Machine

Peter

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JF Grissom Author

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Jun 15, 2012 6:45 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the response! I've turned Time Machine off and still get the beach ball every few minutes while working in Pages.

I occured to me that I'm editing this file from iDrive (I keep it between my iPad and my iMac). I am thinking that is why, because when I write locally I don't seem to get the same behavior.

I'll test it out and reply to this thread.

Thanks for taking the time to respond!

Sincerely,

Jay

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JF Grissom Author

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Jun 15, 2012 9:22 AM in response to JF Grissom

I see...

So if I'm using iDisk this behavior is pretty painful.

So the work around is to us it on a local drive, then copy it back to iDisk when it's done.

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Answer 4

Jun 16, 2012 7:58 AM in response to JF Grissom

You only need to workaround the problem for a couple of weeks as iDisk will not exist after 30 June.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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JF Grissom Author

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Jun 17, 2012 8:41 AM in response to Dale Gillard

Dale,

Hah!

Good call... I didn't realize. (I've been living under a rock.)

Thanks for the info!

Jay

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