Pages documents won't open or download

I had the same issue where I was unable to open several Pages documents on my Mac and on my iPad. When I went to the "mobile documents" folder and looked at the package contets of the documents, they were completely empty. So, I restored from TimeMachine. The problem is that this is the 3rd time most of my Pages documents in iCloud have become corrupt.

The first time I was unable to restore from TimeMachine, so I just completely errased the Mobile Backups folder re-installed Pages from the App Store and started over. A few months went by with everything syncing beautifully between my iPhone, iPad and my Mac. Then one day I noticed I could not open most of the documents again...

This being the second time it errased everything I decided to re-install all of iWork. Again everything worked beautifully. Then a few days ago, most everything was corrupt again.

This being the third time. I completely trashed my Pages Mobile Documents folder and started over. I actually restored from backup, moved the documents to Dropbox, and now have a clean slate in iCloud for Pages.

Just for the record. I have used Dropbox for 3 years. Number of corrupted documents or lost data: ZERO. Pages and iCloud I have had over 2 dozen documents become corrupt and had it happen 3 times. hmmm....

Hi,

Just to see if its the same problem I had, what happens when you open Pages on your Mac and see the documents? I had some with the preview showing the contents of the document and others with the Pages icon instead of the preview, the ones with the Pages icon did not work and the others were fine. To fix the "corrupted" documents all I had to do was right click on the filename, rename with .pages on the end and save it. That fixed it, it continues to happen now but at least I know its a easy fix now.

Same - a document that I typed on my iPad in Pages on 2/25/13 opens only as a blank on both my iPad and my iPhone 5, but the icon in Pages on both devices shows my document! I tried emailing it to myself as a Word doc and as a PDF, and that doesn't work. I tried making a duplicate file and that doesn't work. I tried downloading it from iCloud on my Mac both as a Word doc and as a PDF and nothing works. I tried putting .pages at the end of the file name, that does not work. In every case, the icon shows my document, but either I open it and it's just a blank, or when I open it, Pages instantly shuts down.

I need this document! In it I took notes from a meeting and the other people in the meeting also need those notes! Please help!!

Oh, and when I email it to myself from my iPad, if I try to open either as a Word or PDF from Gmail in Firefox, it shows as a three-page blank doc. When I try to open it from Gmail in Chrome (in both Word and PDF), it says that it is a binary file. When I try to open it from Gmail in Safari (Word), it is a one-page blank document. Weird.

I've come to the same conclusion regarding the use of Pages and iCloud for my PhD dissertation. For now I dont have money to buy a new machine and I rely on my iPad, so I've resorted to emailing the Pages files to myself after after day of working on my thesis. Terrible inconvenience, but iCloud is simply unreliable. :-(

Just a quick suggestion, you could also use the 'Copy to iTunes' option, in the Share & Print menu. This simply copies the document to another folder on your iPad which is exposed for iTunes to see. If you did this after each edit of the document, should anything happen to your documents, you can use the 'copy from iTunes' option, when adding a new document, to re-open the document that got zapped.

Please note, I'm not suggesting you actually use iTunes in anyway, this is all done on the iPad alone, but is an easy way to safeguard your critical docs and only adds a second or two when you're done editing for the day

HI guys,

I have seemed to solve my problem of not being able to open the documents from icloud.

How :

first locate the icloud folder in the library

http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/09/how-to-access-icloud-documents-from-the-mac-os-x- finder/

when you are in finder , go to go finder and press option.

find pages documents ....

and I assume there still in the cloud there,

so make a folder on your desktop or anywhere on your hard drive select them and move them to the folder

I just moved them not copied them ...

and now they open again ,

Icloud, Pages, good idea but it ***** , had loads of problems with it.

I'm gonna trynow to replace the documents icon in the library with a link to the dropbox account , to get around icloud altogether ... don't know it will work thought

good luck with it

Charlie Evans ;

I guess your God was on vacation the day you wanted to deliver the sermon you typed on your ipad, and / or didn't see your sermon as worth delivering, in his divine plan.

You should accept his wishes, as god giveth icloud, and god taketh away icloud.

Apple is not god, so you should not ask them to fix their product. Instead, pray to your god for icloud to work as it should.

That should fix your problem, if you TRULY have faith, and are good, then your faith should be rewarded, and if your god sees your dilemma it as worthy of solution. Apple must merely obey His divine plan. They cannot decide the course of your god's plan and will.

Have faith Charlie, ye of little faith.

The man in the cloud will fix the icloud.

Fair enough.

Probably best just not to divulge details about personal beliefs on internet discussion forums though. "No god or politics" is the general rule.

However to do a little sermonizing myself, and to paraphrase Matthew 6:34 ;

"So do not worry about the icloud; for the icloud will care for itself. Each day has enough troublesome uploads of its own, sufficient unto the day"

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In all seriousness though, I see your post was made months ago,

and I am having much the same problem right now, and I do not find it acceptable.

So we can agree that this is an irritation.

It has interrupted my work on my Jedi Sermons.

My flock needs my meditations on the force, and this has inconvenienced me.

I did not mean to be rude, but I guess it was part of a larger, mysterious plan.

I had a problem yesterday. I didn't know my file was in the cloud at first. I couldn't see it in the documents directory but spotlight showed it as blahblah].pages. The ] appeared to prevent me getting at it. I couldn't load it or rename it. I then open the cloud and dragged it from that window onto the desktop where I was able to rename it blahblah.pages without the ] and then it was ok.

First thing today I'm going to turn off the cloud..

I thought that my corrupted document which I could find but not find in my documents folder when I opened this, was in my computer but it was in that creation of Lucifer, the cloud. When I opened the cloud directory I was able to drag it into the desktop and then fix the name.

1. Is the name corrupted? Is there an illegal character in it.

2. COULD it be in the Cloud, but appear to be in your computer?

This is a real mess and I'm done with icloud for my Pages Document Syncs. I can no longer save my documents to icloud and the pages folder has disappeared from Icloud drive on the finder. I use this feature regularly in my work and has really set me back. I went and bought a 3 T drive that acts as a personal cloud and though i have not figured how to seamlessly sync the ipad mac and phone, i can open the app and download the file for use quickly. Good Bye iCloud, was a good idea if it didn't screw your life up as it regularly goes haywire.

SUCCESS!!

To resolve this issue I downloaded Pages to my iPhone then let the app auto update the files.

Once files updated, I was able to use pages correctly. Moving forward, I will back up on old fashioned hard drives

Same here. Document that previously worked fine can not be opened any longer...