Can't open files due to permissions

When I create an rtf file in text edit on my laptop, send it to my iMac, and try to open it on my iMac, it says I do not have permission. This is a regular standard text edit file. Why is it's default set to this?
When I go under privacy and permissions, and set everything to "real and write" for all users and administrators, it still has the same problem. How can I move text files between computers and still be able to open them?

Have you tried setting Ignore File Ownership on the drive?

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Here's a iWork Numbers file, edited and successful saved yesterday to local folder, named Work.numbers.
Today this file not opening anymore. Number's says: "Can't open file ..." And just one button "OK".
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iTrancemind # tail -F /var/log/system.log | grep Numbers
Dec 30 17:31:23 iTrancemind.local Numbers[2446]: *** Error: -[TSPReader runReferenceCompletions] TSPReader.mm:564 No object unarchived for identifier 3022
Dec 30 17:31:23 iTrancemind.local Numbers[2446]: *** Error: -[TSPReader runReferenceCompletions] TSPReader.mm:564 No object unarchived for identifier 3019
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Dec 30 17:31:23 iTrancemind.local Numbers[2446]: *** Assertion failure #3: -[TSADocumentRoot dealloc] TSADocumentRoot.mm:246 Someone neglected to call -willClose on the document before releasing it.
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2. Tried to open file in iCloud web-editor - no result. iCloud says that it can't open this spreadsheet.
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File Work.numbers has been closed correctly and was no errors. Unfortunately, we have no any backup copy of this file anywhere. I know, this is stupid, but question now: How can I repair this document? Is any repair tools for iWork files?
The file seems like has right structure.
iTrancemind # ls -la Work.numbers/
total 4776
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 max staff      272 30 дек 16:44 .
drwx------+ 19 max staff      646 30 дек 17:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 max staff       68 30 дек 00:28 Data
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 max staff 2306978 30 дек 00:28 Index.zip
drwxr-xr-x   5 max staff      170 30 дек 14:47 Metadata
-rw-r--r--@ 1 max staff     1690 30 дек 00:31 preview-micro.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 max staff    13602 30 дек 00:31 preview-web.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 max staff   112911 30 дек 00:31 preview.jpg
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