Odd error message - Can't save new Pages docs

Yes. Quite a number of people.

I just responded to a long unanswered post with iWork for iCloud beta which may be a similar case:

Re: Why can't I save my Pages document?

I am trying to track down the numerous other cases that were posted here, in case there was a solution amongst those, but as usual am frustrated by this awful forum software.

Peter

There you are, Pages 5 can be relied on to not be relied on.

Not much comfort for your previous file though.

Steve Martin in The Jerk, when he sets off on his great adventure, is taught some essential life skills by his black family:

1. Lord loves a working man.

2. Don't trust Whitey.

3. If you catch it, see a doctor and get rid of it.

Were he to head off today with a Macbook Air under his arm we'd have to warn him about Pages 5 as well.

Peter

I wet myself everytime I think of Prince Ruprecht and the cork on the fork. :D

Peter

I have this problem from time to time and it doesn't just happen with a Pages save. I have also gotten this error in Numbers and TextEdit. It doesn't happen all the time and I have not been able to pinpoint the exact set of circumstances that cause it. I have always been able to save the file to my main Documents folder and then move it to the subfolder that I want it in but this is very annoying. I read a posting someplace that if you re-navigate in the save window from the top level down through your different subfolders you will then be able to do the save. I haven't tried this yet and it's really just another workaround and not a real solution to the problem.

I've sent in a feedback report to Apple and would encourage everyone to do the same. They don't respond to individual reports but if they receive enough of them someone might decide to look into it.

If anyone comes across a true solution please be sure to report it here. I will certainly be following this discussion.

Paul142857 wrote:

I've sent in a feedback report to Apple and would encourage everyone to do the same. They don't respond to individual reports but if they receive enough of them someone might decide to look into it.

Wishful thinking. Not sure Apple is actively working on fixes for Pages 5. It is over 16 months now and they have only partially fixed a very short list of what is wrong and missing.

Now they are off and "upgrading" yet more OS X standards like iPhoto and Aperture.

Peter

I am using PAGES v.5.5.2 and am getting a similar message when I try to open files created in the last few week.

“SITE PLAN - house copy” couldn’t be opened.

The required index.xml file is missing.

So far when I click and hold on a file, it allows me to open it with PAGES (default) 5.5.2 but this is not solving the problem.

Lynn

That is a separate issue.

You have several versions of Pages on your Mac and are simply trying to open a newer file with an older Pages.

Peter

I Think it's an OSX issue and not just Pages since I've had it happen when trying to save Numbers and TextEdit files as well.

I don't believe this is a separate issue. I have the latest version of PAGES installed, am creating documents in it, but when I save them and later try to reopen them I am unable to do so. With older documents created in an older version of PAGES it allows me to update them which I do. But to open any newly recreated documents I get a window asking me to choose another way to open them - which is essentially defaulting to the latest installation of PAGES. It just takes me in a circle. Hope this makes sense.

Believe all you want, but when the older version of Pages tries to open a newer version files you will get the index.xml missing message, because the newer files don't have them.

Pages 5.x will however open and convert Pages '09 files. It may alter or damage them but it will open them.

Peter

Okay guys; Kevin at the Bridgestreet store in Huntsville, AL is a hero today. It's a permissions issue; at least, that's what solved the problem for me. (This is the second time in several months that I've had it happen and could not remember how I resolved it before.)

Go to the folder you're trying to save the doc into and hold down the control key/click and scroll down to "get info" and check your permissions at the bottom. Even if it says you can read & write, click padlock on bottom right/enter password and then click gearwheel and "apply to enclosed items."

Hope this works for you!