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mikesue Author

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Cannot open a Pages file on MacBook Air running High Sierra.

I cannot open one particular file in Pages. It is labelled "exec" for some unknown reason.

Any ideas anyone?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Nov 10, 2019 12:39 PM

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VikingOSX

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Posted on Nov 10, 2019 1:19 PM

The operating system will assign the Exec icon to files without extensions, because it uses a file extension to know what application to open it with, and icon to assign it.

If this really was originally a proper Pages document, then rename it with a .pages extension, and try opening it in Pages again.

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