Q: How to open my  Pages 3.0 documents on Pages 5

It works, many thanks!

Great solution!

I just downloaded Maverick and had the same problem.  I called Apple and they were very helpful.  The problem is that you now have the new and old versions of Pages on your computer.  You need to drag the old version to the trash and everything should work.

Don't delete the iWork '09 apps until you are absolutely, positively certain that the new versions do everything you need or want.

Yeah, I would definitely not suggest to delete the old app in order for your documents to work again.  That doesn't make any sense.

Pages 5 does not open any of my Pages 3 documents. Based on this thread, I will not delete Pages 3 for fear of losing all my old docs. I have asked Apple for a refund and an apology for such a poor product.

Did you figure out how to fix it? I just got a mac an the new pages, an i am having so much trouble i send a file an people can not download it and i go to check the file and i can not open it myself on my own computer where i created it, help me if you can please !

You should still have Pages '09 in your Applications/iWork folder.

Use that and trash or archive Pages 5.

Peter

I opened my old pages document in preview, copied the text and dropped it in a new pages file. Not a great fix but it beats starting over.

Open document with Pages 3.0, select all, copy. Open Pages 5.0, create new document, paste, save. Sorry if you , like me, have 200 documents to edit...

Why would you need to edit 200 documents you obviously have not used in years?

Also why would you not use File > Export > Word? Something that is probably scriptable.

Object lesson btw, don't hold valuable documents in proprietary file formats.

Peter

What a joke, Apple! Another software "downgrade". Are you kidding me? A file I saved a month ago is no longer useable because of another pointless software "upgrade" that adds NOTHING in terms of user functionality? If Steve Jobs were alive today, heads would roll in Cupertino.

You are not talking to Apple here, but instead, just other users like yourself that fully understand the state of Apple word processing without a reminder. What deceased people would do if they were alive is pure conjecture.

LibreOffice v5 (requires Mountain Lion or later) has support for iWork '09 or earlier Pages, Numbers, and Keynote document formats. It may or may not open these documents (depending on document complexity, and present support in LibreOffice). It will also open ClarisWorks/AppleWorks v5/v6 documents from Mac, and Windows. Your mileage will vary.