Continuing my saga of computer problems: I have been trying to install iWork and all I get after installation is a crash.
My computer: iMac 800 MHz PowerPC G4, 1 GB SDRAM, running Mac OS X 10.4.3. New software: iWork ?05 Retail (not the trial version). First I used Disk Utility to repair permissions (HD>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility: First Aid. Every thing seemed find (as good as it ever gets on my computer: some of the widgets that came with Tiger don?t seem to hold their repair). Next I insert the iWork DVD and click on the Installer icon, follow instructions and install iWork on my hard drive. Successfully according to the Installer. Then I use Software Update to download Pages Update 1.0.2 and Keynote Update 2.0.2. The only other new updates showing on Software Update are for iPod (which I don?t have) and iTunes Phone driver ditto). Now I?m ready to try out Pages. I have the serial number that will be required the first time I open either component of iWork. I go to HD>Applications>iWork>Pages and double click on the Pages icon; the icon appears in the Dock and gives about five throbs then the Pages icon disappears in the Dock and I get the following warning window: The application Pages quit unexpectedly. Mac OS X and other applications are not affected. Click Reopen to open the application again. (I did and got the same warning again.) Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple. I clicked Report and got the Problem Report for Pages window which I cut and pasted into a new AppleWorks word processing document: 7.75 pages long!!! I get the same thing for Keynote. I have tried this twice, trashing all the iWork components in between. and got the same results the second time. I tried looking on Apple.com for help. The only thing I found there was for installation problems when trying to install iWork over a trial version. I am not installing over a trial version. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Anne Cartwright | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
