pages file is missing its index.xml file?

We know. Please ignore us while we converse among ourselves. I go to the feedback side constantly.

hi karen

thanks for some very helpful information. I know you and others sometimes call these rants but I would like to come up with another term as I find them extremely helpful expositions of /factual/ information related to what does and does not work for some users.

in my case it will help prevent me going down a rabbit hole - which I didn't have time to explore in the first place - and hopefully lead to 'productive non-wage earning hours' that get me set up with a (new) methodology that works. then I can go back to work and start being productive again instead of constantly troubleshooting (or worse yet forgetting what kind of functionality I am missing or doing repetitive tasks that waste time and wrists).

definitely all ears for those that have hard earned experience.

some items I am looking at in parallel to Mac apps to increase my productivity:

google business apps

filemaker

daylite

MS Office (need to find out if I should buy access and what mac software it will "plug into").

thunderbird

Hey I just wanted to give a solution because I had the same issue.

I ended up calling apple support.

They had me shut down the computer and restart in safe mode.

You do this by holding down shift and then starting the computer. when you see the apple let go of shift.

The computer will be really slow..

After it opens then reopen the document. Mine opened and seemed to work ok but slow. We closed and opened it a few times then shut down the computer again.

Restart the computer and although it was really slow I was able to open the document.

Safe mode healed the document on its own.

Hope this helps!

"Safe mode healed the document on its own."

There was nothing wrong with the document.

The document was last handled and saved by the current version of Numbers (or Pages, for Pages documents exhibiting the same issue), and, when the error was reported, was in the midst of an attempt to open it in Numbers (or Pages '09.

Nubers 09 and Pages '09 documents are packages, containing, among other files, the 'missing' index.xml file reported missing. Numbers 3.x files (and Pages 5.x files) use a different file structure which does not include an index.xml file.

The solution is to open the file using the current version of Numbers (or Pages, for Pages documents). If you then want to use that file in Numbers '09 (Pages '09), all that's needed is to Export the file from Numbers 3.x (or from Pages 5.x) to a file in the format used by the previous version.

Regards,

Barry

"Apple Support"?

Sounds best avoided. You may as well have waved a rabbits foot at your screen.

THere was no need to restart in safe mode for a document simply opened in the wrong App.

Peter

This has suddenly started happening to me too.

I have discovered that if you single click on the file, then go to File>open with>Pages 5.6.2, the file opens OK...

But what the heck is going on Apple?

Apple has really gone rotten on us. Never again. As soon As my phone contract is "Up" I am going back to Linix and Droid. The scary world of Micrsoft Viruses and all. Actually my Mackbook has been under attack the last two and a half years as well.

I really loved the stability and efficiency of my Silver O8 Mackbook. The included software OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Everything worked fine and flawlessly. Trouble started when I was asked to upgrade my I tunes.....It stopped working correctly. It began constantly telling me a newer version was available and could not open. Naturally I avoided "Snow Leopard", OS X.6 as long as possible. When I finally updated late in 2013 it went on smooth no problems. By I was having problems with internet speed and all file loading. I succumbed and loaded OS X 10.11.6 "El Capitan" and it has been a huge problem. Photos are all loused up, and the Pages chatastrophe "Missing required.XML". Really Apple? This is how you are going to ride your fancy new "Spaceship"?. Get loused.

Hey Bajer...!!!! Thanks for the work around on the Missing Index.XML Pages issue.

"Just click on the file and use open with Pages 5.6.2". I am doing that succefully.

You are the man, (woman?) Bajer

Thanks alot.

thank you, this really helped

Hallelujah!!! Thank you:::))) I've been fighting with this for a couple weeks!

Awesome! thanks for the information. The steps fixed our issue right away. We did a Control + Click on document and chose 'Open With' Pages [newest version]

Me too! After nothing but problems, bugs and bad designing I'm going chuck pages for a cloud version of MS for Mac. Pages is crap!

You did read what is going on and the simple solution early on in this thread?

Peter

Yeah I did-thanks. It's just one more in a long line of issues and problems I've had withPages and I don't want to mess around with it any more. Thanks though

Follow the instructions:

right click on the file and choose the correct version to open the file with.

Peter