Pages won't open document

erdichia wrote:

Hey killcondo,

Your best bet would be to go to an Apple Store with your Macbook and talk to someone. You can also start by looking at the support page for Yosemite. http://www.apple.com/support/osx/

Thank you for the advice, I might just do that, although they both use Yosemite and the support page doesn't seem to tell me much, sadly.

Only seems to be an issue on the iMac although after wasting ten minutes I managed to do it somehow - can't see it being because it's old as it's a late '13 model. The MBA is new and equipped with flash and i7 so maybe just a quicker device? I dunno.

Really appreciate your reply, very kind of you to advise, thanks again.

Using PAGES and NUMBERS with the iCloud/iCloud Driver

If you generate a „pages“ file or `numbers“ file, than this file can be stored in the folder „iCloud Drive“ of the iCloud. If you want to edit/handle this file later with an other Mac or iPad or iPhone than you can open the file with the „pages“ or „numbers“ app on the other unit. In order to use this feature you have to activate iCloud and „Handoff“ in the „system configuration“ on all used Apple units.

You should have always the latest updates of the software in order to work smoothly with your apps.

Hoping, this helps.

I have at least two Pages files that are showing the "can't be opened" message when I try opening them with Pages 5.2. When I try them with Pages 4.3 it shows a different message: "The required index.xml file is missing". Removing and replacing the file extension doesn't help.

I think both files were created in Pages 4.3, though I'm not certain. I don't use iCloud, but the files were synced through Dropbox.

I tried Peter's suggested fix of running the Repair Disk Permissions and it made no difference.

Welcome to the World of Pages.

I get the same problem on last version of OS and pages. I think that problem began after last OSX update. Now working with pages documents from www.icloud.com and from iPhone...

Created a document in "notes" style on MacBook Pro with Pages. When tried to save to Cloud drive, got a warning that the document could not be saved. Obviously it was saved — just erratically.

What do you mean "in notes style"

Is it saved as a .pages file.

Yes, it was saved as a .pages document. When you open a new document, you can choose portrait, landscape or "note taking." Didn't know if that might have a bearing on why the file wouldn't open.

Update: After several tries I was able to open the file on my iPad, but still can't open it on the Mac.

What is the error message exactly.

My iPad was being replaced, and when I tried to connect via cable my options were to erase the iPad/set up as new or restore the iPad from a previous backup. I wanted neither. For the record, the iPad was not so damaged that it needed to be restored. It just had a glitch with WIFI.

So I emailed copies of my pages files to myself via my gmail account, and then tried to open them on my MacBook Pro. I get this message: "The required index.xml file is missing."

One year in with the iPad and it gets my award for biggest POC ever. You would think that these devices are from different companies who hate and try to sabotage each other, not from one company supposedly making things hum so life is easier.

I've had this problem for 20 days now. I was typing up my story in one of my documents offline when suddenly a message popped up saying: Document cannot be saved offline." And I've never had this message appear on my iPad 2. Almost instantly after I pressed ok, the document seemed to glitch before it exited itself and now the preview screen has half of it covered by a black cover thing. Every time i try to open it, both offline and online it says "Document can't be opened." I'm am getting quite frustrated with this as the story I was writing up is a very special piece of writing and I probably wont be able to remember everything that has happened in my piece of writing for me to write it all down again.

None of my other documents come up with this message and they all look normal with the preview screen not half covered by just black. I don't backup my things because I've never seen a reason to and the things I do on my iPad are mostly not important.

I tried changing the location of the pages file to another folder, and it opened! Already saved it into Word format.

I Can't send a wide doc in pages anymore

1. On iPad it used to be called iPages, but since the latest update it is only Pages.

2. It used to say "open in iPages" but now it says "copy to Pages"

3. Ever since i got my iPad, I would create a document on my desktop, save as a docx Word file, email it to my userid on the iPad, open it there and save it as an IPages document.

4. When it tries to download the file on the IPad, it stops at about two-thirds into the "importing" and stalls. It says it is importing, but it is stuck and the only option s to Cancel.

This is just one of about 10 problems that have cropped up since the latst release of the operating system. Apple has become sloppy.