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I just did a clean install of Sierra. Before so doing, I backed up my documents, made a disk image of the drive, and ran Time Machine. I had ***-U-MEd My Templates would either have been in the Documents or Application Support, but after installing Pages 6, I both can't find where I would drag my old templates even if I could find them on the previous disk image. Please advise.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), mid-2011, 2.7GHz IC5, 16GB Mem
Hi lybo,
Under OSX El Capitan I assume you are running Pages version 5. This also works in Pages version 6 under MacOS Sierra.
No need to go to any library. In Template Chooser > My Templates you can right click (or control click) on a custom template and Rename or Delete.
Regards,
Ian.
This has turned into a very convoluted process. They should have an option within Pages for exporting templates.
I also cannot locate where the templates are located. I have El Capitan, 10.11.2. I've done searches for Pages, library, container, templates, etc, & found nothing. I have no "library" in my home directory folder, which I'm assuming is the icon with the house & my name. There is no container folder, & there is no folder for Pages in applications. The only thing I can find is the Pages application. Help!!!. I tried to update a template, but it would only save as an "untitled". Tried again, & got an "untitled 2".
Thanks,
Lybo
If you Migrate your data and files using Migrate Assistant in your Utilities folder, the templates should migrate with your software.
Peter
Don't know much about migration assistant; e.g., whether it's possible to limit "migration" to a single program and, hopefully, its support files. Sure would like to drag from my external drive to a local directory.... Will let you know how I make out. Thank you.
Try and see.
Peter
Quit Pages v6 on macOS Sierra.
In El Capitan, and macOS Sierra (Pages v5.6.2, and V6 respectively), the custom user templates are stored in the following location in a User Templates folder.
home directory/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Application Support
In the Finder, you must right-click on the com.apple.iWork.Pages package folder, and select Show Package Contents to continue downward into that hierarchy. Once you are in that Application Support folder, then click Launchpad : Other: Restore to launch the Time Machine Restore facility. It will open to the same Application Support folder on your Time Machine backup, as you have selected on your Mac.
Still in Time Machine, look inside the User Templates folder. If there are templates in there, then select the User Templates folder, and click Restore. If the folder is empty, move back in time by each backup until you discover templates, then click Restore.
Launch Pages, New document, and observe your restored User Templates, which Pages Template Chooser refers to as My Templates.
Thank you so much. I could not find a single other post or article on the subject. Actually, I couldn't retrieve from Time Machine because it treated my Mac as a new machine when I did the clean install, and I must have deleted the old disk when I ran TM on the "new" machine. But fortunately I had the clone backup, which I booted to and copied, then accessed it again in Sierra, copying into custom templates.
Now I've got to post another distress signal in search of my locally stored emails on my "old" hard drive. Any idea if these can be recovered the same way and, if so, where?
You old emails will reside in the /Users/homedirectory/Library/Mail/V3 folder. You probably can just take the whole V3 folder and put it in the same location on the new Mac, provided you move the existing one out of the way. You may have to enable the respective email accounts in Mail preferences, and it may not be as simple as what is written here either.
I have not had to recover email, so the assumptions above are plentiful.
Well, it may not have been as elegant a solution as you proposed, but as soon as I hit the reply button it occurred to me to just archive the mailboxes from the cloned disk and then import them onto the internal drive. Duh. But thank you again!
In what directory does Pages store My Templates?
