can't open old pages documents with new download pages

command z (undo) mutiple times if necessary

or

Menu > File > Revert

Peter

Pages '08/'09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.

If not Amazon has the iWork '09 boxed set for US$27.

Peter

The original was deleted when the Apple store erased my entire hard drive. I will try the purchase of set. For the record... I have never seen anything so stupid before in my entire life!

Make the Apple Store put it back. Why should you pay? You have already paid Apple.

Rate/review Pages 5 in the App Store.

Peter

This is just stupid. I have not yet downloaded the new version and I can't open a document I created last night. The suggestion that you use Pages in iCloud is working for me in the interum. Just stupid.

It's April. Is there not a solution to this yet?

Mistakenly, I thought after 4 months it was safe to delete the Pages '09 app.

Is there any official guidance on what to do?

Is the only work-around to reinstall iWork?

Something needs to have changed, not just some time has passed.

Peter

I was able to open my old pages with "pages (default) 5.2". Right click on the file, select 'open with' , then select "pages (default) 5.2".

Cee

This is simply not true, because if you created a document in pages 4.0 a year ago, when you right click on the file now and ask it to 'open with' pages (default) 5.2, all you get is an error message that says "The document 'whatever' couldn't be opened". I have called Apple tech support and they have confirmed this. To date there is NO WAY to open your old documents without exporting it into a pdf form. Then you have to convert it from PDF to a viable Pages 5.2 file.

What I've found as a workaround is to open the newer document in the iCloud version of Pages, export that as a Word document, drag that off the iCloud document window that opens in the Desktop version of the old Pages, onto your desktop, open THAT in the old version, then export that as Pages again... will save it in the older version.

A bit of a runaround, but at least you don't lose anything. Then, be careful not to save any changes if you open that again on your iPad or iPhone (or, I suppose, in iCloud) - instead, make a copy. The original document should remain workable in the earlier, preferred version.

My file wasn't 4 years old. It was created in the last 6 months and I was unable to open it despite the fact that the pages upgrade was pushed down to my mac. When I tried to open my file, apple sent me to the website to buy pages at $19.99 which isn't right since apparently the mac was already running pages 5.2. Hence the pages default work around.

You won't be able to edit the old Pages document but if you right click on the document in Finder you can select Open With and then select Preview. This will open the document in the Preview app. You can select the entire content of the document by going to the Edit drop down menu and selecting "select all." Conversely, you can use Command A while your cursor is in the body of the document. Copy the contents and then paste it in the latest Pages. The pasted contents will retain the same formatting as in your original document. Save this Pages document and then you can start working on your document.

I think you are just confused by what is going on.

You have 2 versions of Pages on your Mac.

Pages 5.2 is in your Applications folder.

Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.

You are alternately opening the wrong versions.

Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.

Pages 5.2 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them.

Pages 5 can not open Pages '08 files at all. To open Pages '08 files in Pages 5 export them from Pages '08 to Word .doc/x files, or open and resave them in Pages '09.

Older versions of Pages 5 can not open files from later versions of Pages 5.

Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.

Anything that is saved to iCloud and opened in a newer version of Pages is also converted to Pages 5 files.

All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.

Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.

Apple has removed almost 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick

Peter

Mine was working fine then all the sudden today it gave me the whole need a newer version...I simply quit the old version on my dock, pulled the new version icon out onto dock and deleted the old icon from it...works great even after restart