After upgrading Pages to v5.2, when I try to open older documents, I get this prompt: "you need a newer version of Pages to open this document" I've uninstalled all other versions of Pages, and reinstalled Pages v5.2 but still can't open my existing files.
Help in opening these docs would be apprieciated.
OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback
But I'm sure Apple already knows all the stupid things they have done. The question is whether they think that's important.
btw The "All's better" with your restart is probably just you flip flopping between the two versions of Pages.
Peter
No flipping. I was always using 5.2 and it was set as default. My issue was not the one described as opening an older version. It simply said could not open. I can only guess that when the update from 5.1 to 5.2 happened, I never restarted after the auto update and it needed that for some reason.
Good tips for people still reverting back to the old version, but that's not me. Thanks.
You can't set Pages 5 as default.
All Pages documents have the same extension .pages, whichever version grabs the document first, opens it.
Peter
You can choose between the old and new Pages in the opens with drop down when you select Get Info from a Pages file.
No more from me on this.
And it will do nothing. Something easily tested.
We have been through this many times over the last 7 months.
You may as well hang a lucky rabbits foot on your screen.
Peter
In finder>applications> there is still a folder that holds the original iWork applications. Open the documents while in these apps. Robin
I've encountered this as well with a couple clients of mine (I am an independent Apple Consultant). Simply restarting did not work for me (but might solve the problem depending on what the issue is in your particular case so it's always worth a shot). In the cases I've come across, we tried trashing the newer version of Pages and reinstalling from the AppStore (you'll likely need to reboot after trashing in order for the AppStore to recognize that the newest version is no longer installed), and we trashed the preferences file for Pages at ~/Library/Application Support/Containers/com.apple.pages.plist I'm guessing that it is the preference file which is the actual fix, but as I did not have time to try both I can't say for sure. It appears as if the Pages 5.0 or 5.1 preference file became corrupt after installing the 5.2 update.
Having the older Pages versions installed within the iWork 09 folder did not appear to be part of the problem as both versions coexisted just fine in the cases I'm citing.
Pages 5.2 won't open older docs
