Can't export/save document in pages randomly

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Can't export/save document in pages randomly

Hi,

I tried a lot of things because this error has occured for other users as well.

Resetting my password, resetting the write/read values for my Mac, reinstalling my pages, etc.

Sometimes I can save a document. The last time it worked on my dropbox, but only ONCE. Now I can't export this file or save a duplicate for it at any destination on my Mac. What's going on?

Best regards and thanks in advance,

Friedrich

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Nov 24, 2015 9:58 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 25, 2015 6:20 AM in response to obwohl

You should understand that no version of Pages is a supported document format on Dropbox, according to their own supported files documentation. There is no guarantee by them that you can save Pages documents to Dropbox unproblematically.

I have never had read/write issues with any version of Pages '09 or Pages v5 on any implementation of OS X. I have never reset passwords, never altered any read/write settings, and do not use Dropbox. My documents are predominantly saved on the local boot drive, or occasionally in iCloud. Periodically, Pages v5 (pick a release) will tell me it cannot open a document it saved yesterday, but that is manageable.

When you attempt to save or duplicate that document, is it sitting in Dropbox, or on your local boot drive?

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Answer 2

obwohl Author

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Nov 25, 2015 9:25 AM in response to VikingOSX

This has absolutely nothing to do with dropbox. It was just a try if I can save my Documents there. So lets forget about dropbox. It's about a well known error that the user randomly has no write permissions (which is completely ******** because 3 seconds before the user DID have write permissions) on ANY location on the macbook.

See here:

Pages save function not working/ "permission denied"

I don't get why apple does not fix this.

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Answer 3

Nov 25, 2015 10:10 AM in response to obwohl

There seems to be some random Permissions problems in El Capitan. I have had it sporadically switch Permissions on folders so I couldn't write files to a particular locations, then later I could.

Apple's quality control is not what it used to be. For all its software except for iOS. It seems to be concentrating on where the money is

Peter

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Answer 4

obwohl Author

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Nov 25, 2015 10:24 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Yes, Apple doesn't care about this issue. Thanks Apple.

Any good alternatives for MacOS? LibreOffice? The typographic control there *****.

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