Keywork 09 to Keywork 08 or 06

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Keywork 09 to Keywork 08 or 06

Hi All,

Is there a way to revert back a keynote file to older version. We have been using keynote 2006 for quite sometime and was really a solid app. up until the release of the keynote 2009 where we find the transistion really amazing we updated to this version.

Now we are having some really wiered issues on keynote 2009. Is there a way to revert back to keynote 2006 or 2008?

We tried the keynote 2009 file->save us as (keynote 2008). But when opened in keynote 2006/2008 it will always say "+the file cannot be opened because its damage!+"

When can we expect an update on keynote 09?
Again is there a way to revert the file back to keynote version 2006 or 2008?

Octo Core Intel - PC, Other OS, Windows 3.11

Posted on Mar 4, 2009 1:58 AM

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Answer 1

dwb

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Mar 4, 2009 5:08 AM in response to JohnAris@

A quick look at the Save As menu reveals the *Save copy as:* option which lets one select iWork '08 - that will do it for you.

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Kyn Drake

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Mar 4, 2009 5:39 AM in response to JohnAris@

You can save files as Keynote '08, but '08 files ONLY open in '08 or later... nothing earlier. Since the current version of iWork only saves as '09 or '08 files, you'd have to find a copy of '08 that would allow you to save as an earlier version.

It sounds like you had one version, skipped a version, then got the most recent version. It's that version you skipped that you're going to need in order to save your documents as an older version.

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JohnAris@ Author

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Mar 4, 2009 5:55 AM in response to Kyn Drake

yes i know there is a file save as 08.. but the problem with it when we open it on keynote 08 it will always say "+*The document is damage.*+" we do not have any old copy anymore.. so there is no way of reverting it back to keynote 2006? ****!

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dwb

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Mar 4, 2009 6:49 AM in response to JohnAris@

Are you saving to a network share or a FAT32 formatted flash drive? I've not had the problem you describe so I don't think the problem is with the program.

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JohnAris@ Author

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Mar 4, 2009 7:04 AM in response to dwb

yes we are saving from AFP share.. even dragging the file on local desktop it still generates those error..

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dwb

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Mar 4, 2009 7:58 AM in response to JohnAris@

Are you saying that if you save to the computer's hard drive and immediately open it the error occurs?

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Kyn Drake

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Mar 4, 2009 7:50 PM in response to JohnAris@

Oh, ok, you were confusing me with Keynote 2006/keynote 08.

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JohnAris@ Author

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Mar 4, 2009 8:34 PM in response to Kyn Drake

we are really having some serious issues with permission. All our keynote file are updated from keynote 2006 to keynote 2009 by just opening the file and saving it on keynote 2009.

Just yesterday I really can't understand why we cannot save to our AFP share eventhough we have a read and write permissions on the folder, I even copied a file on that folder and it did let me copy.. but the keynote we cannot save it says you do not have access. I tried to duplicate the keynote file directly from finder then opened it on keynote 2009 then it saves. now when renaming the file it will not let you save again. so annoying.

has anybody experience this?

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dwb

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Mar 5, 2009 4:17 AM in response to JohnAris@

Yes. In both my labs we cannot save Office documents in the DOCX format but can in DOC format. OmniGraffle won't save at all to our share, we have to save to the computer's hard drive, but we can copy and from the share once we've saved. (We are using the current version of Novell but I've also talked to some people who are using various flavors of Apple's server software who are also having some issues.)

What happens if you save to the computer's hard drive using the flat file option and then copy this to your share? Does the file copy to another computer correctly? The flat file is actually just the normal package that has been zipped so it should be okay.

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JohnAris@ Author

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Mar 5, 2009 5:00 AM in response to dwb

another issues will come up we cannot copy, duplicate, cut the slide on the master. it generates an error "An unexpected error has occurred. Please quit and reopen Keynote"

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JohnAris@ Author

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Mar 5, 2009 7:00 AM in response to JohnAris@

update this is what is being log after that unexpected error comes up

3/5/09 5:58:31 PM Keynote[1835] SFUTemporaryDirectory: Could not find ANY volume temporary folder.

my guess is that it is a permission issue.. where is does keynote create a temporary file?

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Mar 5, 2009 10:48 PM in response to JohnAris@

I am seeing the same error message get logged, but it is in iWeb 09. Every time I attempt to publish, the console shows SFUTemporaryDirectory: could not find ANY volume temporary folder

I have tried it with a new domain site file, and also deleting the iweb.plist files.

And then immediately after, it logs:
3/5/09 10:40:41 PM iWeb[489] [Error] EXCEPTION RAISED during mapping:
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** CPMessageException: Can’t create the file “Site/Welcome.html.” The disk may be damaged or full, or you may not have sufficient access privileges.
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3/5/09 10:40:41 PM iWeb[489] Publish error: Can’t create the file “Site/Welcome.html.” The disk may be damaged or full, or you may not have sufficient access privileges.

If I copy my domain file from iWeb over to a different account, and try to publish there, it works, so it seems like either permissions for whatever SFUTemporaryDirectory are messed up--or the folder has been deleted.

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May 6, 2009 2:05 AM in response to JohnAris@

I came to this page because I could not duplicate a master with Keynote '09.
I work on a corporate network, and our files are stored on a Mac partition of a Windows server.
When I attempted to duplicate a master I got the message "An unexpected error has occurred. Please quit and reopen Keynote."
After reading through this thread, I copied my file to my local Macintosh’s hard drive.
Then I duplicated the master, which worked fine, no error message, problem solved. 🙂

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JohnAris@ Author

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May 6, 2009 5:13 AM in response to Qualia-London

it seems like the keynote09 and other iworks09 is not really a network friendly app. There are lots of errors that will come up if your accessing the files through the network. Updating to keynote 5.0.1 did not help at all although using keynote09 and other iwork app locally seems to work perfectly without issues.

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