Keynote 6 doesn't open older files

jbaars

Did you try the procedure to reset Keynote I suggested earlier?

let me add that following your suggestion to reinstall the app did not make any difference.

So I am stuck and will contact Apple about this.

Thanks for your suggestions and good luck.

(In fact it was my school that ordered it).

In that case you will need to contact Apple Support.

Prior to contacting Apple, get all relevant documentation such as purchase reference numbers from the person that did the purchase at the school.

More and more people are having the same issue.. Here at work, all the people that update to 6.5.2. are having this issue. I think it would be a good Idea if Apple took a little closer look at this release...

Yes, I fully agree.

Can we assume that someone at Apple actually looks at these posts and will be moved to some action?

And while we are at it; they should repair Pages at the sam time, because I get the same "can/t be -too old" message when I try to open Pages 8 files with the latest Pages, distributed with Yosemite. Although I haven't tried, the same very likely applies to Numbers also.

What a mess!

Can we assume that someone at Apple actually looks at these posts and will be moved to some action?

You can provide information about your issue direct to Apple using this weblink: Product Feedback

Note that Apple will not reply to provide assistance, this is a one way exchange of information.

Find a copy of Pages version 4.3. It works on Yosemite and can open old files.

Chinajon

You have posted in the wrong discussion, the Pages discussion is here: Pages

This discussion is about Keynote, a slideshow presentation application. Pages is a text creation tool, it does not open Keynote files.

This worked a treat for me, although at stage (8) it did not show as a folder.

Saved me a ton of recreating so thanks!

Thanks bblais! I had the same problem today with Keynote 6.5.3 on files created in 2011 (no clue what version of Keynote I had then). Your hack worked perfectly and gave me a good chuckle. Nice job and thanks for saving me some time!

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and saving my time!

bblais!!!

You absolutely rock! This is the ONLY solution I found that worked perfect in seconds WITHOUT having to reinstall Keynote '09.

Specifically I converted an older Keynote 5 file that would not open with my current Yosemite Keynote 6.5.3 file. The error message was "This Presentation Can't be opened because it's too old" and "To open it, save it with Keynote ’09 first.".

Following your fix, the file opened perfectly with everything intact! So happy.

Thank you!

ps - To those who are wondering why after deleting the extension the revised file did not trigger a message and not create a folder, make sure you rename the file inside "Get Info" and not just clicking on the file name.

I recently upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite, and encountered this same problem, though with a theme rather than with presentation file. I found this thread from a Google search, looking for a solution to the theme issue. I'm posting my solution to this related problem here, in case others encounter it.

When upgrading Keynote (via the App Store), it found my old themes and entered them into the new Keynote Theme Chooser. However, it could not open them; if I tried to do so, I got the "Save in Keynote '09" dialog mentioned in this thread.

In my case, I still had Keynote '09 on my machine. So I launched it, opened my old themes, and then saved them as themes again (with new names).

Returning to Keynote 6.5.3, the newly-saved themes were not available. Evidently, the themes are stored in a different location than in Keynote '09, so it couldn't find the newly-saved themes.

The solution was to find the folder where Keynote '09 stored the newly-saved themes:

/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/iWork/Keynote/Themes

I used Keynote 6.5 to open each of the theme files there. Doing so leads to a dialog asking whether to add the theme to the Theme Chooser. Doing that works without incident, and I now have my old themes in the new Keynote. Fortunately, I didn't have too many to convert.

-Tom