Can't open Keynote 09 file

Thanks for this procedure. If I follow this way, there are no com.apple.iWork.Keynote_* files. Only the original presentation file shows up.

after the cp and ls -al command I get this:

total 12496
drwxr-xr-x 4 username staff 136 17 Nov 11:17 .
drwx------+ 80 username staff 2720 17 Nov 11:15 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 username staff 6148 17 Nov 11:17 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@ 1 username staff 6387149 22 Okt 00:49 Company Presentation.key

How do I get to the file with the previous versions...?

I read carefully all 6 pages. ****. Apple? Apple? Is there any chance we will have an official solution someday?

I faced the same situation - two days of my agency work were at the risk. Were - cause before closing the file I made PPT copy, which I managed to open finally after almost getting a heartbreak in the morning of the presentation day. "Unable to open..."

While Apple is trying to come out with an official patch I was trying to play with all the advices I found in this branch. I'm not that good in terminal and digging inside system files, so I tried to go via the easy path. So, that's what I found:

1. Don't mess with original files - make a copy. Just in case.
2. You rename your broken FILENAME.key to FILENAME.zip. Finder will ask you whether you're sure enough on renaming the file.
3. Unzip the FILENAME.zip into separate folder to get folder named FILENAME.
4. You may spend some time exploring it - you will find all embedded pictures, videos and a PDF of your presentation inside, but all that is done just to clarify your curiosity without any practical reason.
5. Now you have to rename your folder FILENAME to FILENAME.key and here comes Finder again asking you. Do it. Your folder turns into the file FILENAME.key.
6. Now you can open it in Keynote, as if nothing happened.

Yes I fully understand that there is no logic or programmers' science in my script but it helped me, and it might help someone else. For those who're keen enough on solving voodoo case I must admit that I tried to open the file several times and it didn't work. Than I changed Keynote preferences to "save as package" but I didn't manage to open broken files. Than I ran my script and it helped. Don't as me how it works - I have no idea at all.

God save your presentations.

Kirill.

Thanks for posting your solution. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. It looks like my keynote file/folder is missing the index.apxl file. I took one of another keynote file and it opened, but didnd't show any of my previous work but the structure of the other file. So I assume the index.apxl is what contains all the slide-structure and text. If that file is gone your entire presentation is gone.

Time machine would be useful to at least recreate an older version, but unfortunately (what I didn't know) Time Machine does not save the iDisc folders which are saved locally. Bad luck for me. God save your presentations and backups.

THANK YOU! This worked for me!

I can't believe Apple hasn't fixed this.

Thanks a million for your post!

Billy

We're having the same problem - but it only seems to happen when saving onto our file server (10.5.8 Server). Saving to a local folder works fine. When our keynote files are corrupted they are missing the index file mentioned in previous posts.
The problem started when we upgraded our network images to 10.6.1; I wondered if it was a bug between saving a file from a client os of 10.6.1 to a file server running 10.5.8. All other file activities work fine (saving in other apps, moving, copying etc.). It's consistent and since we have 50 odd machines using keynote fairly heavily it's cause a lot of stress and some heavy cussing.
I doubt anyone will be able to fix our problem - but I wanted to add my voice to the general outrage expressed here! Fix it please apple.

I just want to bump this thread so hopefully someone will find a solution.

Same problem here. We work with over 60 machines (iMac 10.5.8) and previously had iWork 06 and upgraded to iWork 09.

A lot of students are creating Keynote presentations but I have noticed that there is a small percentage of them that have had this problem, "Unable to open Keynote as it is not a valid Keynote document." Tried everything that was mentioned in this forum but not working.

Has Apple fixed this problem yet??

Hi from Spain. More or less the same problem here. When trying to open a Keynote'09 presentation, Keynote simply does not open (withou any massege) and a dialogue bos saing as below. It was a presentation that I was able to open and use a month ago; and, suddenly, it begun to crash!
Help's welcoming!
Background: iMac with SnowLeopard updated; iWork'09 updated.
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Process: Keynote [1305]
Path: /Applications/iWork '09/Keynote.app/Contents/MacOS/Keynote
Identifier: com.apple.iWork.Keynote
Version: 5.0.3 (791)
Build Info: Keynote-7910000~95
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [131]

PlugIn Path: /Library/Application Support/iWork '09/Frameworks/SFWordProcessing.framework/Versions/A/SFWordProcessing
PlugIn Identifier: SFWordProcessing
PlugIn Version: ??? (???)

Date/Time: 2009-12-17 22:47:48.885 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 431190 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 13
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 208245 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 10
Anonymous UUID: 0335E6F5-F237-491E-9051-1E3CB1824790

Exception Type: EXC BADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN INVALIDADDRESS at 0x00000000f026daca
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

I assume you have done a "Get Info" in Finder to make sure the file is still set to Open with Keynote '09?

Of course! It is as simple as such: I make double click on the .key doc (saved with iWork'09 and normally functioning until that fatidic date) and begins to open 'till, suddenly, Keynote simply closes itself.
I've already tried all the suggerences I've seen in this post and...nothing!!

Wow, great solution! THANK YOU!

This was useful to verify the contents. The index file is there, however I still can't open the files.

This is a serious issue - hundreds of hours of work wasted. Apple needs to resolve this quickly

Rich
CIO
SDSU

With significant help from an Apple engineer I was able to recover the presentation. Looking at the crash dump file it appears to be fonts and cache. You can verify by opening the file using another account on your computer (or another computer). If the file opens it may be the fonts. Here are the steps I used:

1. Open Fontbook - validate fonts then remove duplicates.
2. Delete the com.apple.iWork.Keynote.plist file in Home/Library/Preferences & related cache files (Home/Library/Caches).
3. Shut down
4. Boot up holding down the shift key (safe reboot)
5. Shut down again (Re-initializes the font cache)
6. Run Keynote

Dear Rich, It works! Finally I can open and work again with my Keynote. I simply did what you suggested. Thank you very, very much.
Un abrazo desde España.

You are very welcome. I know how frustrating it can be. I'm the Chief Information Officer at a university and have some direct contacts who spent considerable time trying to help.

Feliz Año Nuevo!

Thank you so much - you have completely saved my neck! it worked!

a few unlinked images - but the 3 weeks of work are there - ill be saving multiple files from now on

You are a legend!..