pages file is missing its index.xml file?

Thank you - your simple fix solved my problem too, although it doesn't make sense as I was using the latest edition of Pages when I created the file only yesterday.

I'm on an iMac with mouse...

1. Right click mouse...drop down is displayed

2. Click on "Open With"...2nd drop down is displayed

3. Now Click on "Pages (default)"

4. Document that could not open now opens

At this point, I suggest...

5. Copy this document

6. Now go to Pages and open a new blank document

7. Paste what you saved to the new document

8. Give new document a name and save

This worked on my iMac with Yosemite 10.10.5...hopefully it works for you

When a person uses Pages '09, and clicks the red traffic light believing they are both closing their document and quitting Pages '09, they have only closed the document window. Pages '09 continues to run, and will intercept any double-click on a Pages document icon, and attempt to open it.

Since Pages v5 documents are an entirely different document architecture, and do not contain the internal index.xml file present in all Pages '09 documents, Pages '09 pops that missing index.xml dialog. The solution is not copy/paste between documents, it is to quit Pages '09 properly, and then double-click the Pages v5 document so that it will open in Pages v5.

All my files do the same thing if I open Pages first and then open a file from it. But if I just use the finder and navigate to the document and double click it, it opens pages and the document every time.

If this isn't messed up, I open pages 09 and create a document. Then after that I can't open it until I double click the file in the finder and then the pages version is 5.6.1

How could they make a program that can't open files that were created with it?

There's an easy fix for this problem. If you are in pages, go to the sidebar.

Click on pages, a number of selections come up. Click on "Quit Pages". Now go back to your document and it should

open. The same occurs if the document you can't open is a numbers document.

peter!

can i /please/ ask you for some more information on this? i am getting absolutely creamed with this issue.

i have a mac air and a mac pro (and an iphone). i am running yosemite on both these computers.

i have been /storing/ a lot of data on DROPBOX and i ran into an issue where my newer pages documents had siingle quotes all over the place so i tried to keep using 4.3 as i remember.

currently on the air where i am trying to open documents from DROPBOX i am seeing that i have 4.3 and 5.6.1 loaded. i ALSO see that i do have an iWork 09 folder and i see now that this will open a 5.6.1 version of pages.

is it possible on the laptop that i finally (?) deleted the most recent version of pages (whatever that is) - and is it possible this is creating issues?

basically right now if i double click on a pages document on DROPBOX i get the xml error (i also get an error that the document is not available which i think is another issue) and if i try to open with 4.3 i don't seem to get anything.

i am googling here trying to find other information but i am on a sort of deadline and this business is confounding.

IS IT POSSIBLE that working on the mac pro at home will let me open these documents without having the problems i am having at the coffee shop right now?

can you remind me of the methodology to fix this issue? do i download the MOST RECENT version of pages, run a search <sigh>, open all my pages documents <double sigh>, and then export them all as 4.3 versions or 5.6.1 versions - and then DELETE the MOST RECENT version of pages, or delete all versions of pages except 4.3??

THANKS for anything if you have the time to help me out here....

jon

oh, and i guess upgrading to El Capitan won't solve this....?

There's an easy fix for XML File is missing. Here it is...you are either pages or numbers. If you are in pages, go to the sidebar.

Click on the word "Pages", the selections drop down....click on "Quit Pages". Go back to your document and it should

open.

If you are in Numbers, click on the word "Numbers", the selections drop down...click on "Quit Numbers".

Go back to your document and it should open.

I do not believe that Dropbox lists any Pages document as a supported file format on its site.

Many people have fallen into clicking the red traffic light in the Pages '09 document title bar in full belief that this closes the document and quits Pages '09. It does not do the latter. Which means that Pages '09 is the dominant application to intercept any subsequent Pages document open requests, rather than Pages v5.

Thanks!!! This worked for me.

All one has to do is actually quit Pages '09, and then a simple double-click on the same document will open it in Pages v5. That is all there is to it.

Pages '09 will not quit when closing its document with the red traffic light in the titlebar. Since it is running, it will intercept any double-click on a Pages document, even if that document cannot be opened (Pages v5 document) in it. Pages v5 documents do not use the internal index.xml file that is used in Pages '06 through Pages '09 documents.

hi peter,

always extremely helpful posts.

i am hoping to find the time to transfer my "life workflow" to a large cloud based company so I can do things like open appointment locations in an app of my choice. I've concluded this major aggravation is simply one example of a host of issues related to my preferred workflow for this suite of apps. pages of course is another issue I need to tackle. i am still struggling with it mostly due to a lack of time to devote to this problem.

can I please ask you to update or perhaps I will remember to post asking you what you end up doing? I /also/ have to do something in this respect and currently as far as I know all my images continue to reside in a very large aperture database.

REGARDS

Unfortunately I have not been able to find a good substitute for Pages '09 or Aperture yet so I continue using them, but make sure I save to a more compatible file format.

I have a large number of drives and versions of OSes, about to add Windows 10 to the mix on a Netbook/Tablet, so I can keep legacy Apps and set-ups going.

I still have System 8.6 on an old Indigo iMac I picked up for peanuts, just so I can run Quark XPress 4.3 and some old games I am hooked on. Still boots up faster than my new iMac and gives me less grief. 🙂

Apple pushes us into a corner, but I sidestep and push back.

Peter

None of these solutions work . I have both pages 4.3 and five. click right cloick and open from file menu give either missing index.xml or "some error". Bogus , I have hundreds of old pages files all of which will not open. APPLE ***!

Only Pages '06, '08, and '09 documents contain the internal index.xml file. When you open a Pages v5 document (entirely different document architecture), with Pages '09, it will tell you that the expected index.xml file is missing. Clicking the red traffic light in a Pages '09 document will close that document, but not quit Pages '09. It will continue running, and will intercept all attempts to open Pages documents, even not its own. Pages '09 must be quit before normal Pages v5 behavior will resume.

If you have attempted to upload Pages '09 or v5 documents to Google Drive, they are now damaged, because Drive will attempt to unzip them, or their contents into folders that are meaningless to any version of Pages.