1) 'The document “*.numbers” could not be opened. ' and 2) '"untitled" can't be opened right now. Numbers couldn't read the file'

1) occurs when I try to open ANY

numbers file. 2) happens when I try to save the current "untitled.numbers" file that is open, created from a new file. I've rebooted and reloaded Numbers. I'm able to access some files using a browser at iCloud.com but not with Numbers on my Mac.


Numbers V. 6.2 (6520)

Macbook Pro running 10.15.1

MacBook Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on Nov 2, 2019 4:02 PM

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Posted on Nov 21, 2019 3:44 PM

  1. Open 'Activity Monitor', and type 'filecoordinationd' in the top right search bar (this should filter only that process)
  2. Then, double click on it, and on the details window, click 'Quit'.
  3. It will give you an alert that this process is owned by 'root'. Select 'Force Quit' just to make sure it will :)


This should do the trick.


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Dec 15, 2019 5:03 PM in response to chad204

Looks like a necessary evil to Force Quit it...


filecoordinationd(8) BSD System Manager's Manual filecoordinationd(8)


NAME


filecoordinationd -- system-wide file access coordination


SYNOPSIS


filecoordinationd


DESCRIPTION


filecoordinationd is used by the Foundation framework's NSFileCoordinator class to coordinate access to files by multiple processes, and to

message registered NSFilePresenters.


There are no configuration options to filecoordinationd. Users should not run filecoordinationd manually.


But...


Since this is all undocumented, I can only give our current understanding: There’s ubd, the process that actually talks to Apple’s cloud servers, gets update notifications, splits and transfers files, etc. librariand is the process that maintains the list of currently available files, the sync states, ongoing transfers and exposes all of this to Spotlight. And, last but not least, filecoordinationd. This is the file locking mechanism that makes sure only one app is writing on a file at a time. It’s also the system part of the previously discussed file notification system.


Now, as soon as there are deep hierarchies, lots of files and lots of changes, things start to fail. We have seen scenarios with each of the three subsystems broken, sometimes even beyond system reboots and iCloud deactivation/reactivation. Add a few hundred packages, open some of them, run background processes and start moving stuff around -- you can be sure that file coordination will break. In our experience it will just randomly stop reporting file changes. I may also happen that file accesses are never granted. Folder deletions have to be tried, aborted and retried in some cases.


https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article ... -is-broken

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