Keynote 6.0 and version control

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Keynote 6.0 and version control

We use Keynote to mock up spec documentation and we check these changes into version control, SVN. With the new version of Keynote, it is breaking SVN when changes are made. The new version of Keynote does not store it's data in a single file, rather a folder with multiple directories and files inside. Each time Keynote saves changes in the new file format, it deletes the .svn folders, which breaks SVN. Has anyone found a work around to tell Keynote not to delete the .svn files inside a keynote presentation?

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Scott

Keynote-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 4, 2013 2:59 PM

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Kyn Drake

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Nov 4, 2013 8:14 PM in response to scottmellmo

There was a bug report entered into svn a LOOOOONG time ago regarding this and other iWork file formats.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=707

However, I don't know if they ever fixed it or if they ever will. You'll see a few discussions here regarding this. Version 5 of Keynote had an option to compress the package into a .zip file when saving (but still with a .key extension). The current version stores data in the default Keynote format for OSX, which was as a package (folder with a .key extension instead of .folder).

I haven't seen any solutions posted for this issue. If Apple goes back to .zipping the file during the save, that would at least put us back where we were.

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