Pages 13 files show as folders in Dropbox & Google Drive?

I see your point Peter. Luckily, I wasn't saying Dropbox (or others) were supposed to see into the future.

Apple's software does not require Dropbox to run, and in fact offers its own (albeit, slightly inferior) cloud service.

Using your analogy, it would be like I handed those papers to an outside service, who mixed them all up. It may not be my fault for the mix up, but it's definitely not the original creator of the papers fault either. Especially if I chose to use an outside service, when an in house service exists.

Peter,

Here are a couple of links that detail the new file format in Pages v5.

Pixel Envy: Exploring the New iWork for Mac File Formats

Github: iWork ’13 (sic) File Format

There are two reasons why Apple's new file format in Pages 5.0 frustrates me:

1. They've gone back to a format closer to Pages 08 than the one they had most recently in Pages 09. In so doing, they've broken the methods that the various syncing services (google drive, dropbox) had used to read Pages files.

2. This creates a situation that PUSHES users toward using iCloud. If you want to use Pages 5.0 on your Mac and on your iOS device, your only real option right now is to store all those files in iCloud – because if you store Pages 5.0 files in any other cloud then you won't be able to access them on your iOS device.

The doubly frustrating part is that I would be willing to simply SWITCH over to iCloud storage if apple actually made it viable. I have THOUSANDS of Pages documents, and yet the only file structure apple will make available to me is one with only ONE level of folders. That's just insane. Now, if Apple wants to keep iCloud simple, that's fine, but then they ought to put some thought into avoiding BREAKING all the other syncing programs out there. And I just can't help but think that Apple KNEW that the Pages 5.0 file format would break dropbox and google drive syncing. Dropbox is EAGER to make sure the syncing works, and it wouldn't have been that hard for Apple to share the file format with Dropbox ahead of time. But of course they didn't do that. So in the end they leave me with no viable options.

I say this as someonw who HAPPILY abandoned word in 2005 and switched over fully to Pages, even before it was a full-fledged Word procssor. I say it as someone who has NEVER used a Windows PC and has been using an Apple computer since 1985.

I'll cross my fingers that dropbox can figure out a workaround and update their app.

My problem is "open in" doesn't appear so I can't move it to Pages. I can save it in pages icloud to begin with but that isn't what I want to do.

My problem is that Dropbox doesn't save edits on a Pages doc. I can view and open just fine, but after I make changes and save again to Dropbox, they don't appear. Any fix for this?

The new version of Dropbox, released on 13 December, has FIXED this issue. It's now possible save documents to dropbox in Pages 13 format, then access those documents in Dropbox for iOS, and then "open in" Pages for iOS.

Thanks to Dropbox for putting the work in here. We know that Apple didn't make any changes and neither Google Drive or Skydrive work with hew new file formats yet, but Dropbox does.

I have the new version of Dropbox (from December 14) on my iPhone 5. However, I still can't VIEW a Pages file. Anyone else with this issue? Is the only way to see the document on an iPhone now to purchase Pages for IOS?

I have all the latest versions on Mac, iPad, and iPhone 5s. The only way I can create a Pages document that will open in Dropbox on my iPad or iPhone is to use the old iWorks '09 version of Pages.

The very latest version of Dropbox for iOS still will not display Pages 13 documents within the Dropbox App.

Unlike earlier versions of Dropbox for iOS, the very latest version will allow you to access Pages 13 documents and then successfully "Open in" the latest version of Pages for iOS.

I use the BOX cloud service. It was not accepting Pages 5.0 file because it sees it as a folder. If you right click on the pages file, you will see the "compress" option. Click on this option to convert the file to a zip file and it will sync with the BOX cloud. Will probably work on Dropbox etc.

Or go back to using the version of Pages that has all the features, AND can email.

Peter

Just figured out that .pages files are in fact .zip files. http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/pages

I took these steps (on my Macbook Pro) in order to make it one file again.

1. If you compres (select file and right click) your file.pages it "should" be saved as file.zip
2. Now remove / rename your original one
3. And rename the file.zip to file.pages

[UPDATE]

hmm.. aparently this doesn't work either.. the quicklook-functionality works so i figured that it would work, but preview now can't open the file.

any suggestions??

Use Pages 09! You should have it in the Applications / iWork 09 folder if you had it before you upgraded to PAges 5.

For those offering the simple solution of using Pages 09: for those on this thread who use iOS devices that are already upgraded to iOS 7. X and who want some interoperability between pages on their Mac and on their iPads and iPhones, that isn't a simple solution.

If you do not need pages on the iPad, the by all means stick with pages 09. But if you need to work with the same files on Mac OS and iOS then Dropbox is now your best bet as it will sync Pages 13 (I.e. 5.0) docs just fine.