Can't Open iWork '08 Files

Just downloaded the new pages, keynote, numbers from the app store. Now I can't open any of my files which were all made in iWork '08. It says I need to open the file in iWork '09, but I never had iWork '09, nor is it available now.. Help?

Just open them with iWork '08 which should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.
Pages '08 v3.03 should still work in Yosemite.
You can Export your files to Word .doc/x files which should open in Pages 5.5 but maybe changed.
Be warned, once you save your files to Pages 5.5 documents you or anyone else won't be able to open them anywhere else except in Yosemite with Pages 5.5 or iOS8 with the latest Pages there, or really desperately in iWork for iCloud beta.
Apple has now radically changed the iWork files multiple times in the last year, each time making them hard to save if anything goes wrong. Think seriously before committing your work to this. I doubt this is the end of the file churn.
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