Index.xml file is missing...can't open document I created awhile back
I created a document before Christmas on Numbers, saved it, and now cannot open it. It is telling me that the index.xml file is missing every time I try to open it. I opened the contents of the package, and there is no index.xml file there.
I haven't done anything with the file other than converting it to a .pdf to email. It has a lot of important info on it, and my time machine can't recover it....any ideas?
Hello
I don't know which tool you used to search the Index.xml.gz files.
There is one of them in every document created by an iWork's application.
Don't exchange them between two documents. They ARE the document. In fact they are the description of everything which is needed to build what you get on the screen.
Remember, a file generated by an iWork's component is a package which is a speacial kind of folder.
press ctrl when selection the icon of one of them.
A contextual menu will appear.
Select the item :"Show package's contents" to get what you see on the screenshot.
I really don't know what failed.
To get rid of that, use the preference I described in my late message.
Don't forget that when we use a computer, the most important word is BACKUP (I'm not shouting but I'm not far from doing so).
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 16 janvier 2008 22:07:25)
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