pages file is missing its index.xml file?

Nicely articulated points. This .xml issue happened to me at mission-critical when I needed Pages to perform well and instead it added intense stress to an already stressful situation - trying to invoice someone to get paid... so I may set up a Genius Bar appointment, just to be able to deliver the message - "what if your Apple store enterprise software refused to ring up sales - you couldn't perform transactions - and to get an answer/fix, you needed to wait 3 days for the Corporate Genius Bar to help - meanwhile no sales could be conducted - that's the situation I was put in... "Get it, Genius?"

I have on my 2009 MacBook Pro both Pages 4.1 and Pages 5.2.2. I've been having the same problem. After reading all below

I decided to try something and here's what I learned: If I make sure that both Pages icons on the menu bar are "closed" then I can open any pages file with

no problem by double clicking. At least, its worked today when I tried it out several times. Therefore, you may not be able to have open

a file from each of the Pages apps at the same time.

That is not true.

I frequently work with both Pages .09 and Pages 5.5.3 open.

OSX will tend to try and open a file with whatever Pages may already be open but that is not guarranteed.

As has been repeated over and over again, right click on the file and choose the correct version to open it with.

Double clicking you are playing Russsian Roulette.

Peter

I have no idea how to find the old Pages to open and save the files for the new one, so this was my workaround.

I used my old iPhone, pulled the document into Pages there, which was able to open it, emailed it as a Word document to myself. It opened and converted back just fine. Worked on my iPad which has up to date iOS as well.

You can't find your Applications folder?!

Peter

Are you being snide? I went to my applications folder. Found Pages. Only saw one version, as far as I could tell. It didn't open the file.The rest of the instructions I found just confused me. Help is appreciated, rhetorical questions with ?! not so much.

I found a workaround which I offered to others who are stuck like me and lack the information that I guess you think is obvious.

The full instructions have been posted here multiple times, here it is again for the third time in this thread:

Pages 5.5.3 is in your Applications folder

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

Or you can use Spotlight to search your Mac.

No need nor point to eMail it to yourself

Peter

This is my Applications folder. I do not see Pages here.

If you right-click (control-click/two-finger tap) on a Pages document icon, you will see Open with at the top of this contextual menu. With Pages v5 (any release) installed, the default will be this version of Pages. However, if you have Pages '09 also installed, it will appear further down on this menu as Pages (4.3).

In your list view of the Applications folder, Pages '09 if installed, will be in the iWork '09 folder as Pages.app.

I don't have Pages 5 in any form on this computer. Not installed. I am traveling, so the problem is that the documents I'm trying to open from my Dropbox folder created by my desktop cannot be opened by the Pages on my laptop. Hence, my workaround of emailing myself the files from my mobile device. If anyone else in in the same boat they can use it.

"iWorks" appears before "Licence" so not sure what your screenshot proves other than you have dumped some very odd files in your Applications folder, such as .rtf, .pdf and .dmg files.

You don't have any version of Pages in that shot, although Pages 5 and Numbers 3 should be there if you installed them, heaven knows where you have moved them or why, or whether you ever had them.

We can't see if you have MsWord and you never said what version of OSX you are running so we don't know what you are opening your Word .doc file with or what result you are getting. TextEdit will do it.

Your instructions to anyone else with a similar problem are not useful because you have not explained your set-up, which applications you have installed on what version of OSX nor what the actual end result is with whatever application it is that you are actually opening your file with.

Peter

Thank you for saving me hours of work. I have left a review of the newest version of Pages. It is so painful to see my beloved platform suffer under these decisions to "simplify" programs by removing vital features with no regard for the loyal users.

THANK YOU so much for this tip...it worked for me. I am running Yosemite on an iMac and Pages '09 v 4.3. I did tests with old pages files on a frriends iMac before installing Yosemite and seemed to open ok. This file was created in June and now needs to be edited, so have not opened it since then. Panic ensued but this tip has helped me,as I am afraid I did not really folllow the more detailed info and would have needed to get help..currently not available..so this lets me get back to work. Thanks everyone.

Bella

hey there, just had this issue.

click on the file that you wish to open. once its selected then go to "file". then go to "open with" and select the default pages to open the file. should work. if not then try the other pages program to open it.

This worked for me! Thank you!