I have created a new Pages document and when i try to save it, I get the message, "The file 'Untitled.pages' couldn't be opened. Any ideas why?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Are you saving to Google or DropBox? because they don't understand the new Page 5 file bundles.
Peter
neither. attempting to store locally.
Rereading your post: Why does it say it can't be opened when you are saving?
Locally being to what? your hard drive?
Peter
yes. that is exactly what it said. i was similarly confused.
oddly, i needed to restart my computer for another issue (i could not hear any sound no matter what i did). luckily, apple has had the insight to include automatic recovery of files and i was able to re-open these applications and have my unsaved files intact. even more strangely, i was able to save my file with the desired name after the restart.
very odd... and somewhat disconcerting. i am a pc & windows convert (recently) and i was hoping not to have this sort of thing going on when i moved. oh, the strange world of computing...
Open Disk Utility and run repairs, you may be having a problem with Permissions, which is how Unix controls where and when you may read or write to your drive.
Run the repairs and see what it reports.
Peter
I ran into the same problem on my father-in-law's Mac.
I managed to reproduce it many times.
The bottom line is: to avoid the problem, save the new document immediately after you have picked a template you like.
If, instead, you pick a template (say 'Essay') and start modifying it immediately (say by pasting a whole block of text or deleting stuff from the original template), and then save it, Pages will barf at you and give you the 'Untitled couldn't be opened'.
In order to fix the problem, once a document can't be saved, I tried to copy and paste it to TextEdit, but then TextEdit gave me the same error message!
So I pasted the whole document into Gmail, so at least the text is saved.
Then I closed the Pages document and selected 'Delete' to get rid of it.
So, again, the correct procedure is to save the template immediately before modifying anything.
For reference, as of today with Pages version 5.6.1 (2562), I cannot reproduce the problem.
Why can't I save my Pages file?
