Why does Pages lock up if I am not connected to the internet?

Question

If the internet is not going and I try to start Pages, it locks up. I have to wait till the internet is back before I can do any work. This is the only app I have noticed this problem with.
TIA
Mark

Answer 1

I assume that something in your preferences files, maybe
Macintosh HD:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Pages.LSSharedFileLi st.plist
(I don't know why the message parser added a space between redLi and st)
contains references to files stored on the network.
Try to move it on the Desktop before running Pages.
An other track may be fonts stored somewhere on the network, not on your machine.
As Pages use its own cache file, the System may have a correct list of reachable fonts but Pages is unaware of this reduced list.
The cache file is:
Macintosh HD:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Caches:com.apple.iWork.fonts
Try to move it on the Desktop before running Pages.
Post here the results of these tests.
If the problem is really linked to one of these files, I will be able to write a script to run to launch Pages. It will delete the offending file before launching the app.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 10 juin 2011 16:25:23
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7
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