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Mike.Minh Author

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25 points

After upgrade to Sonoma, opening of PAGES docs is VERY slow

On two MacBook Air M2, 2022, after upgrade from Ventura to Sonoma opening of PAGES docs is slow, up to a minute for a simple two pager text doc. Opening of PDF happens instantly.

What could cause this?

Pages version 14.2 (7041.0.109), Sonoma 14.6.1

I reassigned that PAGES documents will be open with PAGES as a default in Finder, although it was already correctly assigned.
I reindexed Spotlight
I reinstalled the entire macOS Sonoma from Recovery.
I put a test file into a folder, rather than keeping it on the desktop.

The exact observation is, after a restart and waiting for two mins before I tried anything:

Double click on PAGES document
PAGES loads at acceptable speed
The document opens over a minute later.

Working in a document is normal, a new unrelated doc from PAGES template chooser opens normal.

MacBook Air (M2, 2022)

Posted on Nov 14, 2024 4:08 PM

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Fraxis2007

Level 1

45 points

Posted on Nov 26, 2024 2:13 AM

Update: So Apple called me back and have confirmed that the engineers are aware from multiple people that this is an issue. It will be fixed in a Sonoma update, so I would suggest avoiding any workarounds or DIY solutions if you can wait. They say typically a fix for something like this would take around 10 days to implement and release an OS update for. That's not a guarantee, however. Hope this helps.

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Dec 6, 2024 7:08 PM in response to citroenDS

Nope. Also Numbers, Preview, Text Edit and others so far are BROKEN. Who authorized this???

Dec 7, 2024 4:33 AM in response to Mike.Minh

Rahmaomera

Dec 7, 2024 7:00 AM in response to Pixel_Gurl

Looks like we are getting MacOS updates next week so will give that a try and then go for a clean install if that does not fix it.

Dec 15, 2024 6:19 PM in response to Fraxis2007

Too little too late. What about those of us who relied on you to provide quality professional products? YOU FAILED US.

After upgrade to Sonoma, opening of PAGES docs is VERY slow