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maverick28

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Mar 14, 2014
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Hey,

I'm recently struggling to fight or at least figure out the cause of Pages 4.2 (less frequently) and Numbers 2.2 (more frequently, that is several times per day) crashes when entering Browsing Versions mode with its Time Machine interface (with numerous sheets "floating" in a vast sea of stars). Particularly being inside this mode and browsing for a long time and trying to exit this mode by clicking "Done" results in black screen followed either by the app crash or kernel panic with a subsequent restart.

My suspicions were aroused some time ago when I found that I was (and am currently) working in Pages with the documents imported from Word and Excel. I don't have MS Office for Mac nor would I like to. I hate Microsoft stuff. I experimented quite a lot with entering and exiting the Versions Browsing mode (trashing cache files, plists and whatever I could find exploring my knowledge of Mac OS)regarding Excel-originated docs as well as native Number ones. The former caused crash while switching to versions browsing while the latter was OK (I hope: I maybe wrong).

I know of numerous issues in iWork plugging the work with imported documents. So could kernel panic as well as these crashes be the result of this incompatibility? My OS is Lion, iWork v9.2.
 
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