I am trying to open documents from iCloud in pages but it says it can't be opened. I saved it on my macbook and now want to open on my mac and they both have the most up to date version of pages. Is there a way to open a previous version? iCloud doesn't have many options in pages.
When you open Pages and see the document chooser, switch the location in the Toolbar from On My Mac to iCloud. Can you open your document from the now displayed iCloud items?
If you are logged into iCloud and select Pages (for iCloud beta). You will have your documents presented. You can right-click on the specific document and choose to Download Document… . Choose Pages. This will be downloaded with a .zip extension, which Pages v5(.2) on OS X cannot open directly. You will need to double-click this document to get it unzipped, and the resultant (in my tested case) Pages document will just open normally.
When you open Pages and see the document chooser, switch the location in the Toolbar from On My Mac to iCloud. Can you open your document from the now displayed iCloud items?
If you are logged into iCloud and select Pages (for iCloud beta). You will have your documents presented. You can right-click on the specific document and choose to Download Document… . Choose Pages. This will be downloaded with a .zip extension, which Pages v5(.2) on OS X cannot open directly. You will need to double-click this document to get it unzipped, and the resultant (in my tested case) Pages document will just open normally.
My problem is trying to open from the iCloud document chooser. I did download from OK from safari using beta iCloud. However this is poor because then I have an extra copy that is not linked back to original. I couldn't use safari to edit it because I have special fonts which are not recognized. I think I will just retreat back to dropbox for all of my document saving but thank you for the advice. If I am in a pinch I will open safari to download iCloud files.
Is there any way to find iCloud files in finder or is that the next release of OSX?
Unlike Pages ’09 v4.3 which wrote its documents out as zipped directories with a .pages extension — which Dropbox and Google filesystems understood as a single document — Pages v5(.2) writes out directories that only the OS X Finder helps Pages open as a Package file. These new Pages documents are incompatible with Dropbox and Google, unless they are first manually zipped (right-click and choose compress) to transform the directory structure into a single compressed document.
You can view your iCloud Pages documents in the Finder, but I would not recommend accessing them for edits directly:
Finder > [login directory] > Library > Mobile Documents > com~apple~Pages > Documents
If your local Library folder is not visible, open a Finder window and press command + J — then check Show Library Folder.
I just saved the file in my dropbox folder and it works no matter what device I open it on. Not sure what problems you think I would have had but it seems much easier than iCloud.
Trying to open the file from the library/pages/documents also doesn't work. Same error that it cannot open the file. Not sure if that folder got corrupted or something. I'll try restarting my computer to see if it updates anything.
I had the same issue on El Capitan. I could open iWork documents on my iphone and iPad but got the error on my mac.
turning off / on iCloud documents from the iCloud system preference did not fix.
What I did:
ran "first aid" in disk utilites
turned off iCloud documents in the iCloud system preference
reboot
turned on iCloud documents in the iCloud system preference
fixed for me.
Error "file couldn't be opened" from icloud
