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Problem with Numbers App

I have two versions of Numbers on my Mac: Numbers 09 version 2.1 (436); Numbers 3.5.2 (2118)

I kept Numbers 09 because I liked it much more than the newer version. It continued to work well with documents that had been created on it. With some other spreadsheet documents I would get the message "The document *****.numbers is invalid. The index.xml file is missing". When this happened I would close Numbers 09 and open the other one, and the file would open. This worked very satisfactorily.

Now something new is happening. When I try to opencertainvNumbers files made in version 3.5.2 I get this message: "You need a newer version of Numbers to open this spreadsheet".

When I go to the App store and try and upgrade Numbers, which I have done several times, nothing happens. The little wheel spins indefinitely, and the app won't download. Also I notice the new version has a rating of 2.5 stars, which is not very encouraging.

There appears to be a certain randomness about what happens. I've tried to narrow down exactly what happens in exactly what conditions, but in doing so inconsistent things appear to happen.

Can anyone out there help?!

I'm using a 2009 21" iMac running el Capitan 10.11.6

iMac 21.5", 10.11

Posted on Feb 5, 2019 1:37 AM

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emby

Level 1

13 points

Posted on Feb 6, 2019 7:30 PM

There's also this: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-13571

which mentions this: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/disk-utility/partition-a-physical-disk-dskutl14027/mac

Partition your disk to have the option to boot up in an older OSX where your Numbers 09 will still work.

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SGIII

Level 8

36,092 points

Feb 7, 2019 6:39 PM in response to Barry

I did a little on-line sleuthing. Lion was released July 20, 2011. Mountain Lion was released July 25, 2012. Numbers 3 was released, I believe, October 22, 2013.

So it would appear that <option> File > Save As has ever been "missing" from the new Numbers, except for users clinging to old versions of the OS.

If my dates are correct, Save As... would have been for issue, though, for all users of the old Numbers between July 2011 and July 2012, except for for users clinging to old versions of the OS.

In any case, Save As has been there for years now.

emby

Level 1

13 points

Feb 8, 2019 3:31 PM in response to SGIII

I do appreciate that there are certain things that should be learned rather than lamented. But sometimes I just need to sit down and get the job done (even if just for now and I’ll learn the new one later). Thank you for the tip on holding down the option key in File.

I used to loath anything Microsoft and lamented going to work in a traditional office environment where I was forced to use it. Over the same years, I can now say with unequivocal certainty that Microsoft has evolved its software in a way that is more dependable and transitionally intuitive. I won’t say it’s elegant, but it is demonstrative when I have never once had a problem picking up a new version of Excel like it was yesterday, even after years of absence.

Peggy

Level 8

41,655 points

Feb 7, 2019 8:46 AM in response to emby

in Numbers 09... I don't know about 2

The version of Numbers in iWork '09 is v2.x.

Problem with Numbers App