iWork not iWorking on SMB in Mavericks

Let us know if you keep having good results. Everybody having problems here has upgraded from earlier OS X versions. I'd be willing to wipe a box clean to see how it goes.

Since the recent updates of pages and numbers, all is ok now. I don't see any issues anymore with this. So for me the problem was related to pages and numbers but not to SMB of osx.

I went through the whole issue with one of my customers, using the latest iWork suite on Mavericks in combination with a 2012 R2 file server.

My customer found a workaround, which has been working stable for now:

The problem seems to arise, if you save a Keynote file to SMB and then close Keynote with the red X, top-left in the window.

For all we could find out, Keynote seems to damage the index.key file.

Opening the file seems to work after that, deleting or editing the file leads to errors.

However, if my customer closes Keynote via the menu (In German: Ablage - Keynote beenden), in English (just guessing!): File - End Keynote, the Keynote file is properly closed and can be openend, edited and saved.

Although this workaround seems to work for my customer (all in all only 12 Macs), I'd be grateful to see if this works "in the wild" as well.

Cheers

Jeroen

Just to be clear the problem is just with Pages 5, Keynote 6 and Numbers 4?

There is no problem with iWork '09?

Peter

Peter, you keep repeating that gong back to 09 fix the problem BUT it takes away the ability to use iCloud or share documents with mobile devices...NOT an acceptable solution. Apple needs to fix the server SMB problems in 3.2.2 (and not force us to upgrade to yosemite then charge us for Server 4 which has not even fixed this problem completely!) as well as iWork so we can share iWork documents on a server without creating folders or having to download/edit/upload. We can share Word and Excel documents this way, why Apple cannot get it done for Pages, Numbers and Keynote? All needed is to allow the server to support versions (easy to do since they do it on the iCloud Drive).

With over 100 features missing from Pages 5 what is the point of exchanging anything "created" with Pages 5.

The archtypical American solution, "Convenience" at the price of massive inconvenience.

Junk for junk's sake, but thankfully the user's attention span doesn't stretch beyond 5 minutes. If they ever had better, or ever knew what better is, they can't remember.

Peter

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

With over 100 features missing from Pages 5 what is the point of exchanging anything "created" with Pages 5.

The archtypical American solution, "Convenience" at the price of massive inconvenience.

Junk for junk's sake, but thankfully the user's attention span doesn't stretch beyond 5 minutes. If they ever had better, or ever knew what better is, they can't remember.

Peter

I hope that you are kidding, this is not an answer/solution and sounds instead as a bad apology for Apple shortcoming by suggesting that there is no point in sharing those documents....Pages, Numbers and Keynote 5 are missing features from 09 but they works well and have already enough features for my students to use it instead of Word/Excel/PowerPoint. As long as it fits our work needs, sharing our documents is CRITICAL to do our work (scientific research) and should be available and easy with OS X server and any kind of documents (as it has been the case with our Panther server since 2004 and still going without any problems whatsoever!). With the update to Maverick server and the new iWork, our computing has been more and more miserable and I am losing hope that Apple will ever sell again robust server/productivity solution that works as well as Panther/iWork09/Office old system....

Software/hardware quality is not going in the right direction for the past 2 years: no more 17" laptop, mac mini not upgradeable anymore, no more servers, no more iPod classic, still no 128BG iPod touch, no more iWeb/iDVD, no matte display options, 4 out of 4 laptops bought since 2010 broke their hard-drive and the batteries are dead although mostly used powered while my 2002, 2004 and 2006 laptops are still running and never had any issues. I have used Macs since 1989, maintained Mac Servers since 1991 and bought dozens of Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads but it is more and more likely that I will not replace my Apple products. For sure, my lab as well as my university has spent much less on Apple products this year than in the past years....

So FINALLY you are taking the hint. 😉

Peter

I have no clue what hint you are talking about....If you ask my wife my sarcasm detection ability are worse than Sheldon Cooper, so please do not use sarcasm or hint and just say what you want to say....I don't think that someone that has accumulated 31000+ points would be a troll using "hint" to encourage Apple users to stop using Apple hardware and software. Since your points give you the ability to attend conference calls, I was hoping that Apple may get an ear about those issues and how it affects their long-time customers that trusted them and stick with through the darks years. It is obvious that filling bug reports or calling support has not helped for this issue (or get back features from 09).

Silly throwing around the meaningless "troll" word.

I got the 31,000 points through a lot of hard work, doing support which consists basically of thinking for people who can't or won't.

For the last year I feel like it has all been for nothing and the worst part is the users. It would be insulting to sheep to call them sheep.

…and the last thing Apple would do is listen to me, believe me I've tried, but they see it as standing between them and some awesome Selfies.

I see you are losing your taste for Macs and Apple's software, that is what I was referring to as finally taking the hint. Apple is not interested in you. Their money is being made from a lot of easily manipulated and fooled consumers who just fiddle with their purchases. Everyone else is too much work.

Peter