I am trying to access some old pages documents that i have transferred from my old macbook to my new macbook. When I try to open it tells me the document is too old and that I need to save them to pages 09. I don't have pages 09. How can I access these documents? any help in basic terms very welcome!
Thanks
Sarah
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
You can install the older version of Pages on your new Mac, or export the old Pages file from the old Pages as a Word .doc file and open that in your new Pages.
Peter
Is there a way to get Text Edit or another application to save these as one of their file types?
In some older versions of OS X of the bygone era, this was possible in limited instances...
Another idea may be to email them and see if more options appear in the recipient computer
to save them when downloaded from email. (or change them to PDF?)
Like George, a little curious...😝
eMailing is not going to change their format.
Pages has always been its own rather incompatible format, which I have been warning about since it first came out.
Apple nicely demonstrated why what was "not a problem" actually was, when they brought out the even more incompatible and unparseable Pages 5 and the several subsequent format changes that have played havoc with Pages files since. To the point now that only the very latest Pages running on the very latest OSes can open the latest documents. Ignoring the huge world of Windows.
Peter
So one cannot save the Pages document as a PDF and then email it, to and from the same
user between accounts? While not able to convert a result back to a Pages document, the
original may be converted to something else by another means, for re-use anyway.
While I do have Pages (older iWork version and a later one in Mav 10.9.5) I seldom use them.
And some older Macs have AppleWorks, a few Office for Mac, etc. TextWrangler, and others.
On the other hand, image format and other kinds of saving methods can be very handy; if not
necessary to share them across a common software or in use with a group using one software.
From Mac OS6.0 to 9.2.2, was a tolerably difficult shift; early OS X to 10.3.9 was an evolution.
Tiger 10.4.11 proved that near perfection was possible in an Apple OS. Then it wasn't until
Snow Leopard 10.6.8 for near perfection to arise again. Yet recent things don't look that good.
You can Export or Print to pdf from Pages, as you can in any OSX App, but that is a clumsy way to transfer files you wish to edit.
Pages '09 is still the best and most compatible file format.
We can not repeat it often enough, unless you need/want to exchange files with iOS 8 devices, stick with Pages '09.
Peter
I decided a few years ago to stick with Microsoft Office and delete Pages, Numbers etc.
Apple makes it very difficult to open older documents when their software is updated to a new version.
I've NEVER had that problem with EXCEL or WORD.
Documents made 15 years ago with old versions of WORD open without a hitch.
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
You can Export or Print to pdf from Pages, as you can in any OSX App, but that is a clumsy way to transfer files you wish to edit.
Pages '09 is still the best and most compatible file format.
We can not repeat it often enough, unless you need/want to exchange files with iOS 8 devices, stick with Pages '09.
Peter
I am going to take a course on 'Understanding Which Versions of Pages can open Pages Files"
And why not 😟
+2
Frankly, I guess I have to go back to using Word. Something as standard as the dictionary/thesaurus in the edit menu is no longer accessible. Add to that the inability to open older documents just means that the redesigners don't really care about the users. Further, avoiding upgrading doesn't work because now they force you to upgrade by interrupting your typing with a dialog box demanding you choose. I used to prefer Pages over Word. But no more. Apple is going backwards.
meema wrote:
Frankly, I guess I have to go back to using Word.
Good idea.
Only Pages and Preview can directly open a .pages document, and then, with respect to Pages, it would depend on the document age, and file inconsisteny issues between releases of Pages v5. Preview will open a Pages '08 document. No version of Pages v5 will do that.
Another quiz Peter, how many versions of Pages would I need to ensure that I can open a Pages file?
2
3
or 4
2, Pages '09 for everything running Pages '09 and prior and Pages 5.5.3 for everything after both running on Yosemite.
And possibly a third, iWork for iCloud which is supposed to patch any loose versions, but in practice doesn't or is so clumsy that you may as well forget it.
Which doesn't help anyone else.
Everyone at Apple who has had anything to do with all the v5 iWork Apps should frankly be ashamed.
Peter
How do I open an old pages document transferred from my old Mac?
