Pages freezes upon opening

Whenever I open Pages and select a document to open, Pages freezes.
The same happens with Numbers and Keynote as well; I just opened them to check.
I'm still using Leopard, as this poor art college student doesn't have $30 to spare at the moment. Could that have something to do with it?
I did do a software update last week, and I can't remember if it included some iWork update that would only work with SL, in which case, I'll just wait until I can buy it.
If that's not the issue, could anyone point out what it really is?

The updates iWork 0901 and 0902, apply on 10.4.11, 10.5.8, 10.6 with no problem.
As the described oddity strikes with the three apps, I assume that it's not linked to a given document.
I assume too that it's not linked to an application's preferences file.
Maybe a problem with a shared cache file.
Try to apply the free maintenance tool named ONY which is compatible with your Leopard.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/onyx_leopard.html
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 15 septembre 2009 10:44:01

Similar Messages

Mail app freezes upon opening after Mavericks install

Following my installation of mavericks, apple mail app freezes upon opening. Windows do not open; program immediately begins "not responding." Having followed this with a force quit loop for a day, I installed airmail, a serviceable alternative, but not well integrated with address book. As such, I'm interested in finding a fix for mail app. Advice will be greatly appreciated.

I have same problem with my macbook pro 2009
Worked fine when first installed now mail app fails to open. Not the same issue as with macbook airs.
Date/Time:       2013-10-24 11:59:58 +0800
OS Version:      10.9 (Build 13A603)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version: 18
Command:         Mail
Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Version:         7.0 (1816)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:    Mail
Source Version: 1816000000000000
Parent:          launchd [185]
PID:             2576
Event:           hang
Duration:        0.88s (process was unresponsive for 14 seconds before sampling)
Steps:           9 (100ms sampling interval)
Hardware model: MacBookPro5,5
Active cpus:     2
Fan speed:       2009 rpm
Free pages:      45194 pages (-9582)
Pageins:         36 pages
Pageouts:        0 pages
Swapins:         0 pages
Swapouts:        0 pages
Process:         Mail [2576]
Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Architecture:    x86_64
Parent:          launchd [185]
UID:             504
Task size:       146918 pages (+7149)
CPU Time:        0.723s
Note:            Unresponsive for 14 seconds before sampling
Thread 0x343f5    DispatchQueue 1          priority   21-45   cpu time   0.723s
9 start + 1 (libdyld.dylib) [0x7fff927f45fd]
    9 NSApplicationMain + 940 (AppKit) [0x7fff8a2dd803]
      9 -[NSApplication run] + 553 (AppKit) [0x7fff8a2f29cc]
        9 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122 (AppKit) [0x7fff8a2fe8db]
Can anyone help?

Track freezes upon opening

I have a new macbook pro and the track pad keeps freezing upon opening. after 1-2 min it comes back to life and some times after it does the whole screen goes blank for a sec and thne it is back to normal... any thoughts?
thanks
chris

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Backup and launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the library. Select the last three options.
Click to view full size
OT

TS2755 Messages freeze upon opening

Upon opening messages it freezes. I would like to try to delete messages?

HI,
When iChat 3 came out someone tested whether it would work on the platform that was running iChat 2 and also tested whether iChat 2 would work on the later OS.
This eventually led to the Reinstall procedure for iChat 3 up to the iChat 5 version.
Since then the app has required either a Backup version from when it was working, a copy on another machine running the same OS and app version numbers (the two go hand in hand) or you have to Reinstall the whole OS which will always update you to the latest version of the OS (and in the case of Messages any updates it has had).
8:01 pm Saturday; December 21, 2013
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

A day ago I updated my iPhone4 to io5 and I updated iTunes on my PC using Windows 7(64 bit). Now iTunes freezes upon opening and I have to force it to close. Anything I missed along the way?

A day ago I updated my iPhone4 to io5 and iTunes update as well. I use windows7 (64bit). now iTunes freezes at open and I have to force it closed. Anythng I missed along the way?

Many thanks.
With those symptoms, I'd try the following document:
Apple software on Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
(If there's a SpeedBit LSP showing up in Autoruns, it's usually best to just uninstall your SpeedBit Video Accelerator.)

Updated itunes, now it freezes upon opening. even after reinstall.

Hey, I recently updated to the newest version of itunes and whenever i open it it freezes automatically. It pops up and i can't click on anything or do anything.
I've tried reinstalling it and redownloading it multiple times but I still get the same results. I've also made sure to download the one with quicktime.
I tried downloading an older version but it says that my library was created by a newer version and it can't be read. Something along those lines.
Can someone please help me? I'm at my wits end about what to do.

I'm having the same issues! iTunes over the past few days has been freezing on opening (sometimes), freezing during routine playback (sometimes), and when it freezes it refuses to die even when I try to force-quit!
I tried rebuilding my iTunes library as suggested, but it didn't work for me. It froze less than 30 minutes after I went through that rigamarole...

Pages freezes when opening a document or starting a new one

Hi Forumfolk,
I'm having a new issue with Pages downloaded from the App Store onto my iMac 3.06Gz core duo.
It's worked fine in the past, but today it's freezing up when either I try to open an existing document or start a new document using the template chooser.
I tried deleting the application and having the App Store reinstall it, but the problem persists.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Many thanks!

OK
Now we know that the problem is somewhere in the global part of the system.
It will be difficult to guess what is wrong because I bought iWork '09 in january 2009 so I don't know for sure what is installed when Pages is bought from App Store.
May you check that the folder :
<startupVolume>:Library:Application Support:iWork '09:Frameworks
exists on your machine and has the contents displayed on the screenshot :
Don't worry, in English, Bibliothèque is spelled Library.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) 13 mai 2011 18:59:41

IPhoto Freezes upon opening

I am having an issue with opening my iPhoto. When I click on the icon, it will take me to the opening page of IPhoto, but if I try to do anything else on iPhoto (i.e. click on a gallery, a photo-book, etc...) it freezes and I have to "force quit" to get out of the program.
Are there any solutions for this?
Message was edited by: HeidiInDC

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Backup and launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the library. Select the last three options.
Click to view full size
OT

ITunes Hung-Freezes Upon Opening

Before I go into the specific problem, here is a brief history of what has gone down the last few months, just in case you see the problem there.
November 07:
System begins to systematically fail. Back everything up to an external hard drive, then reset OS. All is well.
Mid-November 07:
I notice that many songs didn't get transferred to external hard drive, usually whole albums, so my iTunes is missing about 250 songs I do not presently possess. But wait, I realize they are all safely tucked away on my iPod! So I download Senuti, Isync, and IpodRip trying to extract the songs. None work. Shortly thereafter, I notice shoddy iTunes to iPod performance, meaning certain songs from new albums do not get uploaded. Later, I get a message saying iTunes cannot be read from or written to. All the while, it says the are X number of songs that cannot be found while opening.
Today:
All was going fine until today when, iTunes library of 4000+ is randomly reset to 55 of the first songs I ever imported. Weird. Luckily, the music folder is fine, and I drag it in (as I never exported a saved library). This in effect deletes the songs that had missing/unlinked files, so I decided to plug in my iPod, conceded that I would never get the songs back that way. However, before I could, it kept freezing up of doing the gapless playback info, getting caught on two songs and repeating the process.
When I did plug in the iPod, the same error message came up. ***. I read Apple's page on the matter, and think it might be related to Senuti, etc., so I delete those. No effect. Now I decide I have nothing to lose, and hit restore button. Now when I plugged in iTunes, all that happens is a few lousy podcasts sync and nothing else. Afterwards, iTunes would not even work, and according to Activity Monitor, would get "hung" right after opening. ***. Please help. Need iPod. Need iTunes....

Haha. I have about 45 GB of content total. (thousands of songs, hundreds of audiobooks, hundreds of music videos, a few movies) I'm using the most recent version of iTunes, whatever it is. =P and my computer is very screwy. I've had it freeze 3 times where I had to restart the computer by holding down the power button, and sometimes the screen becomes covered with noise and the monitor becomes completely useless for a few minutes.

ITunes freezing upon opening

I used to have a 20GB iPod, and I never used iTunes. A few friends of mine put me on to a program called "Ephpod" which I used to upload music on to my iPod. I just thought it was more convenient than iTunes, personally.
Now I just bought a 80GB iPod and I want to use iTunes to buy TV shows and what not. I used Ephpod to load all of my music on to the new iPod, and now when I try to open iTunes it usually freezes as soon as it recognizes my iPod. I'm wondering if it has something to do with my using another program to manage my iPod. Any thoughts? Thanks so much in advance

urhggg same with me.
Its been happening to me ever since I updated it.
I open iTunes, it opens fine but I cant click on anything, and I force shut the iTunes down.
Tried restarting comp and stuff, don't want to reinstall because I might lose all my data and I havnt backed it up in a long time....

Photoshop CS6 freezes upon opening

Running CS6 64-bit on a Windows 7 machine. Everything is updated, and it was working fine yesterday and every day before for the 2 months we've been running it on this machine. New today:
Open Photoshop and it opens the window but you can't click anything. It's like a pretty image file of what your PS experience would look like. Can't close it because even the little red X doesn't register as anything. Have to force quit from Task Manager. Restarted the system (full shut down, pause, start, not just a system restart).
Deleted the Preferences file and restarted the system. That kind of helped. Now we can open and click around for about 25 seconds. That's enough time to change my performance preferences and close the program before it freezes. So I did that and restarted the system. No change. I can also open the "open file" dialogue, but the second that opens, everything freezes back into that pretty picture of what it would look like if I were to be using PS.
Nothing else on the system freezes while PS is frozen. I can do webby stuff and work in other Adobe programs, check my email, dig around in my explorer, pretty much anything I want as long as it isn't PS.
Exception: If I open Bridge, I can use it just fine until I try to open a file from Bridge in Photoshop. Then both programs freeze until I force quit PS. After that, Bridge is happy again. If I try to use Bridge to run a PS process, I get the message window that PS is currently running another process, would I like to queue this one. No matter what I hit, everything gets angry until I force quit Photoshop.
I spoke to a nice man on the customer service line who was very good at reading suggestions like delete preferences or completely reinstall the suite from his list of fixes, but didn't seem to understand at all what I was asking him. So I turn to you, oh forum of knowledge. Anyone know how to fix this? We've reinstalled video drivers. We're currently trying running a repair off the Windows OS disk.
We would like to not have to uninstall and reinstall the whole suite. Everything else works great. AE is happy, Illustrator is happy, Bridge is happy so long as we don't make it talk to PS. If there's a way to just reinstall or run a repair on PS without affecting the rest of the suite, that would be an option too.

Hello,
I've got similar problem,
When I turn on my compagny computer everything is alright. Photoshop CS6 13.0 x32 start correctly. i can work on picture as expected.
But during the day, Photoshop doesn't want to open other file (any file).
I can work on with a picture that still open and save it, but can not open anything else.
Restart Photoshop doesn't work.
I must reboot the computer to correct this and open other file.
I'm on windows 7 SP1 with administrator rights
No plugin installed, I'm a beginner with Photoshop
Can you help me please ?
Thanks

Acrobat X Freezes Upon Opening

With every new PDF I open, the program freezes the moment I try to scroll down in a document.
The PDF stays frozen for approximately 30 seconds, then continues to act normally.
I think I'm up to date at 10.1.4? What could the problem be and how could i fix this?
I did a search and only came up with (1) result from Acrobat 9.

I might suggest trying to move the addons and macros to a backup folder and see if the issue changes. If so, you can copy them back one at a time. It might help to do a repair. Just some thoughts anyway.

System freezes upon opening any .dmg files

recently, i wanted to upgrade the msn messenger from version 4 to the latest, so i went to ms website to download the .dmg installer.
upon clicking, it did it's usual expanding, after which, i believe it freezes at the mounting stage. tried other software installers with .dmg, and it has the same problem. mouse pointer can still move around, but everything else freezes. force quit doesn't work.
help.
Thanks

I see, well the first thing you can try is to Repair permissions.
Run Repair Permissions in the application Disk Utility, which is found in Applications/Utilities.
If still no good then I suggest run Repair Disk.
Note the startup drive can only be repaired from another drive. Simply loading the install disk is not sufficient. You have to boot from the install disk.
To do this: Insert the Install Disk 1 into the drive and then select Restart, then hold down the C key until you hear the chime.
This will take you to the installation software, but you do not want to install.
Select your language, then go up to the top menu bar to First Aid and navigate to the Disk Utilities application.
Select the start up drive, then you click on Repair Disk .
If it finds errors, repeat the process until it reports no errors.
Then run Repair Permissions.
After these repairs, quit the application, and restart normally.
I hope that works for you.
regards roam

Firefox freezes upon opening, although I have uninstalled the Skype toolbars add-on

I tried opening it in Safe Mode (with all add-ons disabled) and it ran fine. I enabled the skype add-on and FF died, so my best guess is that the Skype add-on was the problem (I could enable or disable, but not uninstall). I uninstalled the add-on from the CP, then uninstalled/reinstalled FF and am still having problems with Firefox, although the Skype add-on is no longer in my add-ons list.
Edit: And now even in Safe Mode, FF is freezing.

Alrighty den... I downloaded AppTrap from downloads.com. I was then able to delete all of the associated Firefox files hidden on my computer with this program. Once done, I was easily able to reinstall Firefox and import my settings from Safari. I am back in the groove. Thank you all for helping me narrow down the problem.

After successfully downloading the newest version of itunes, it freezes upon opening. How do I correct this?

When I try to open itunes after downloading the most recent version, itunes freezes on my computer. How can I fix this? I'd like to update my iphone4 to the new operating system but it locks up too after syncing. Any suggestions?

Moved to Adobe Reader.
Assuming you are running Windows, try running the Acrobat/Reader Cleanup Tool, then re-installing.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/acrobatcleaner.html

Pages freezes upon opening

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for