joefromyuma
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Q: In what directory does Pages store My Templates?

I just did a clean install of Sierra. Before so doing, I backed up my documents, made a disk image of the drive, and ran Time Machine. I had ***-U-MEd My Templates would either have been in the Documents or Application Support, but after installing Pages 6, I both can't find where I would drag my old templates even if I could find them on the previous disk image. Please advise.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), mid-2011, 2.7GHz IC5, 16GB Mem

Posted on Oct 4, 2016 12:30 AM

by VikingOSX,Solvedanswer
VikingOSX VikingOSX
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A:

Quit Pages v6 on macOS Sierra.

 

In El Capitan, and macOS Sierra (Pages v5.6.2, and V6 respectively), the custom user templates are stored in the following location in a User Templates folder.

 

home directory/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Application Support

 

In the Finder, you must right-click on the com.apple.iWork.Pages package folder, and select Show Package Contents to continue downward into that hierarchy. Once you are in that Application Support folder, then click Launchpad : Other: Restore to launch the Time Machine Restore facility. It will open to the same Application Support folder on your Time Machine backup, as you have selected on your Mac.

 

Still in Time Machine, look inside the User Templates folder. If there are templates in there, then select the User Templates folder, and click Restore. If the folder is empty, move back in time by each backup until you discover templates, then click Restore.

 

Launch Pages, New document, and observe your restored User Templates, which Pages Template Chooser refers to as My Templates.

Posted on Oct 6, 2016 9:05 PM

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  • by PeterBreis0807,

    PeterBreis0807 PeterBreis0807 Oct 4, 2016 1:11 AM in response to joefromyuma
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    Oct 4, 2016 1:11 AM in response to joefromyuma

    If you Migrate your data and files using Migrate Assistant in your Utilities folder, the templates should migrate with your software.

     

    Peter

  • by joefromyuma,

    joefromyuma joefromyuma Oct 4, 2016 1:17 AM in response to PeterBreis0807
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    Oct 4, 2016 1:17 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

    Don't know much about migration assistant; e.g., whether it's possible to limit "migration" to a single program and, hopefully, its support files. Sure would like to drag from my external drive to a local directory.... Will let you know how I make out. Thank you.

  • by PeterBreis0807,

    PeterBreis0807 PeterBreis0807 Oct 4, 2016 1:35 AM in response to joefromyuma
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    Oct 4, 2016 1:35 AM in response to joefromyuma

    Try and see.

     

    Peter

  • by VikingOSX,Solvedanswer

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Oct 6, 2016 9:05 PM in response to joefromyuma
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    Oct 6, 2016 9:05 PM in response to joefromyuma

    Quit Pages v6 on macOS Sierra.

     

    In El Capitan, and macOS Sierra (Pages v5.6.2, and V6 respectively), the custom user templates are stored in the following location in a User Templates folder.

     

    home directory/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Application Support

     

    In the Finder, you must right-click on the com.apple.iWork.Pages package folder, and select Show Package Contents to continue downward into that hierarchy. Once you are in that Application Support folder, then click Launchpad : Other: Restore to launch the Time Machine Restore facility. It will open to the same Application Support folder on your Time Machine backup, as you have selected on your Mac.

     

    Still in Time Machine, look inside the User Templates folder. If there are templates in there, then select the User Templates folder, and click Restore. If the folder is empty, move back in time by each backup until you discover templates, then click Restore.

     

    Launch Pages, New document, and observe your restored User Templates, which Pages Template Chooser refers to as My Templates.

  • by joefromyuma,

    joefromyuma joefromyuma Oct 6, 2016 9:45 PM in response to VikingOSX
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    Oct 6, 2016 9:45 PM in response to VikingOSX

    Thank you so much. I could not find a single other post or article on the subject. Actually, I couldn't retrieve from Time Machine because it treated my Mac as a new machine when I did the clean install, and I must have deleted the old disk when I ran TM on the "new" machine. But fortunately I had the clone backup, which I booted to and copied, then accessed it again in Sierra, copying into custom templates.

     

    Now I've got to post another distress signal in search of my locally stored emails on my "old" hard drive. Any idea if these can be recovered the same way and, if so, where?

  • by VikingOSX,Helpful

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Oct 6, 2016 10:07 PM in response to joefromyuma
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    Oct 6, 2016 10:07 PM in response to joefromyuma

    You old emails will reside in the /Users/homedirectory/Library/Mail/V3 folder. You probably can just take the whole V3 folder and put it in the same location on the new Mac, provided you move the existing one out of the way. You may have to enable the respective email accounts in Mail preferences, and it may not be as simple as what is written here either.

     

    I have not had to recover email, so the assumptions above are plentiful.

  • by joefromyuma,

    joefromyuma joefromyuma Oct 6, 2016 10:11 PM in response to VikingOSX
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    Oct 6, 2016 10:11 PM in response to VikingOSX

    Well, it may not have been as elegant a solution as you proposed, but as soon as I hit the reply button it occurred to me to just archive the mailboxes from the cloned disk and then import them onto the internal drive. Duh. But thank you again!