the file ... couldn't be opened error (numbers, pages, keynote)

I am also having this problem.

All of a sudden today I can't open any of my Numbers documents from iCloud. 😠

I can open them in iCloud.com, so what the heck?

Jay

Me too. I have both Pages and Numbers docs there, turned off iCloud Drive and then turned back on, and all of the files STILL couldn't be opened. ***?

I will logoff iCloud Drive and log back on and report if it helps.

Back to Dropbox for me. Shameful of Apple.

Anyone have any updates on this beyond the turn on / turn off iCloud Drive?

Like a few others on this list that did not allow me to open up a Numbers file on my computer.

Thanks!

-Carl

Same issues here. Opening a new Pages document on Mac, then fails to save but the file is instead in iCloud on the web.

Then tyring to opening any other Pages document on Mac's iCloud Drive and it fails.

Even reapplying the home folder permissions to the whole hierarchy didn't succeed.

But: moving a document (using Terminal, not Finder) in a directory external to iCloud Drive allowed to me to open this copy of the document.

Also unchecking iCloud Drive and the re-checking again, de facto redownloading all documents, didn't succeed.

Rebooting fixed it for me

I found another work around today. When I went to save and was getting this message (I also couldn't export it in any way) and I noticed that others would check/uncheck iCloud accounts, I decided to migrate it to my desktop and see if I could save/export then.

It worked for me.

>File>Move To...>[select the place you want]

Thanks for the help, it worked, but I had to restart my iMac. The problem only happened on Mac, iPad and my iPhone worked perfectly.

Does anyone know why this keeps happening? It happens over and over again. Very frustrating!

I'm experiencing the same problem. I open a Pages document, edit it, but can't export or save it. This is very frustrating.

I tried unchecking the iCloud Drive box, but that didn't work.

It would be nice to use my documents on my new $2000 iMac. /sarcasm

I have the same issue with numbers, pages, basically any cloud document. In addition, photo stream doesn't update either.

perhaps it's because I leave my iMac on for 3 or 4 days at a time.

If I log out and do a restart, it all works again.

One thing that has been plaguing me since El Capitan is the keyboard. It loses the plot and fills cells with random characters every so often and has to be reconnected.

For a £2500 flagship device it was a poor investment. Everything almost works and that doesn't cut it for me. I never had this problem with my Windows PC. It is my first and last Mac!

http://osx-sos.com/the-file-pages-couldnt-be-opened/

This might be helpful if it's caused by the wrong disk permission.

1. Run Disk Utility.
2. Do repair your disk.
3. Restart OSX.

Thanks so much. I was working at home on a document from work, and got the same error. This worked for me!!

Hello

That happened when I was trying opening any file on my iCloud Drive.

I just restarted my computer and everything started working.

I hope it works with you.