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Problems opening Pages

Pages will not start or show in menu bar but when pressing force quit it shows pages as not responding


iMac, macOS 10.13

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 10:25 PM

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Posted on Nov 2, 2022 4:09 AM

Reboot your Mac. Press and hold the shift key when launching Pages again. This prevents it from loading its last execution state, which in your previous case, was a hung application for some reason or another. See if Pages now behaves normally.

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Nov 2, 2022 7:16 PM in response to VikingOSX

VikingOSX,

Thank you, it worked. Most appreciated.

Using a late 2012 21.5inch iMac, hard disk is so slow as to be unusable but using two external SSD's, system and backup on time machine. Email, Preview, Safari, etc all work well but my mainstay and constant use, Pages, became stuck even with reboots. Your hint on rebooting holding the shift key has Pages working again. Most appreciated, thank you.

Problems opening Pages

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