Anduril2012

Q: Help! The document does not have a valid format.

Thursday, 8 September 2016

 

I made an all-text document in Pages 09 Version 4.1 (923) and saved it on my external back-up hard drive only. I use Mac OS X (version 10.6.8 - Snow Leopard). Everything was going just fine as I would update the document periodically. One day, out of the blue, the document would not open because “The document does not have a valid format”. That leads me to ask three questions:

 

What in the world caused that to happen?

 

How do I get the document to open?

 

And

 

How do I prevent this from happening again?

 

Right now the document will not even show itself in Preview, except as an icon with the Pages logo of the pen and inkwell.

 

Thank you.

Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 10:20 AM

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