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In the previous incarnation of Pages, right when it first developed Folders (a long overdue development), I was able to easily move a document from one folder to another on my MacBook, as well as my iPad.
Now, whenever I grab a document and try to drag and drop it into a new folder to move it, it won't let.
Did Apple actually remove this functionality from Pages?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Pages never had that function.
If you want to move a file, switch to Finder.
Peter
In Yosemite, you can move it on clicking the down triangle right to the document name, no ?
Yes. With a document opened in Pages '09, or Pages v5+, the drop-down panel from the title triangle allows you to either rename the document, or by changing the Where: choice — immediately move the document to a new location.
Is that purely a Yosemite feature?
And just to get this clear, it is moving it, not just saving another copy?
Available in all Applications?
…but not drag and drop?
Peter
Didn't have the Yosemite MBA powered up, so verified this on Mavericks with Pages v5.2.2. Since Apple has essentially frozen the Pages v5 codebase, figured this would also work on Yosemite.
Any application (e.g. TextEdit) that takes advantage of this titlebar feature can move documents in this manner.
Didn't have the Yosemite MBA powered up, so verified this on Mavericks with Pages v5.2.2. Since Apple has essentially frozen the Pages v5 codebase, figured this would also work on Yosemite.
Any application (e.g. TextEdit) that takes advantage of this titlebar feature can move documents in this manner.
In the Finder, you can move a document from one location to another by depressing the command key while dragging the file.
In Pages v5.2.2, with the document chooser open, I can use the preceding sentence move technique to move a file from an open folder into the Pages document chooser and it will automatically switch the Pages document chooser to inside that external folder — without launching the document. But, the command+drag feature does not work to move a document visible in the Pages v5.2.2 document chooser to another Finder location, or even into a folder visible within the document chooser.
Pages v5 and later is a rewrite, not an evolution of Pages '08/'09 functionality. Apple did not remove anything. They simply never put earlier Pages functionality back in, or any common sense word processing functionality. Consequently, it is a totally different, and deficient application that is known more for what it cannot do, than its strengths.
Pages '09 v4.3 still works on Mavericks and Yosemite (with some small caveats on the latter).
Does "Paste item exactly" have the same issue?
Can't move document from one folder to another
