HT4946 Missing Pages Documents

Hi, yesterday, i did a back up on my iPad.
Today, all of the documents i had on Pages on my iPad are gone. how do i get those back on my iPad

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

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Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
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2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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I created a very important pages document on ipad that i didn't save with a title. It vanished when an inapp notification appeared while working with the document. It is not in cloud nor anywhere in my pages library. How can this happen? Please tell me there is a way to recover this file? At the time of the incident I was running the latest version of IOS (7.1.1) and pages (2.2 -1259)
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When I share a pages document as a PDF (via e-mail) all the pictures change from the original document, most are missing with just a few of them repeated in the spots where others had been. How do I do this without the document changing?
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Hard to say what is happening without examining the file.
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Hank,
You were wise to search for answers here. There's no doubt that there is more collective wisdom in these discussions than you would expect to encounter in one first-echelon phone support person. You are also wise to be using TimeMachine so you have that recovery option available to you.
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I can't open any documents from my son's iPad. Error message: the required index.xml file is missing. How do I fix this error so that I can open his Pages documents? Before I ran the latest update as prompted when I opened Pages, I WAS able to open and view the document.
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PUT THE FOLDER BACK IN THE "WRAPPER"
Back in the File Info dialog, click in the Name & Extenstion box, add the ".pages" extension after the last letter of "myfilename" so that it reads "myfilename.pages" and press [Enter].
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I have “hundreds” of pages documents that were created with pre Pages 09 that will not open now that I have upgraded to Pages 09. In every case I get the error “The required index.xml file is missing“.
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I tried to summarize previous comments on this subject and ended up with this:
Pages can be very picky about fonts, even fonts you do not visibly use in a document. It is for example possible that a Style you do not use contains a font that is missing. It may also be part of a bullet list.
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* If you think the missing fonts may come from MS Office you can go to Mactopia to download a test drive, which will install the fonts.
* If you think the missing fonts come from Pages, reinstall Pages.
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* Restart.

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I apologize but the given script can't run.
The variable templateName is undefined.
The variable angebotsNr is undefined too.
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Bug ID# 8704270
Summary:
+Odd behavior of tables in Pages documents created by a script+
+Steps to Reproduce:+
+Run this huge script+
+tell application "Pages"+
+make new document at front with properties {template name:"Blank"} (* "Vierge" on French systems *)+
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+Actual Results:+
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+This odd behavior strike in all versions of Pages '09 and Pages '08+
Regression:
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IOS Pages 2.0 and 2.1 implement an entirely incompatible document format with Pages ’09 v4.3. It cannot open them, and you are then prompted to update to Pages v5+ which is compatible with your IOS Pages.
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How do i upload Pages documents and folders to iCloud and make sure they sync on all my devices?

Hi,
I'm new to iCloud and don't really know how to use it yet. I have a desktop Mac, a Macbook Pro laptop and an iPad. Currently all my Pages documents are on my desktop computer. I would like to upload them to iCloud and then have it set so that they automatically sync and I can access them on all my devices. I want to make sure I always have the most up to date version of a document when I open it on any device, without having to update manually. Can anyone tell me please how I do this? Can I keep them in folders (there are a lot of documents!).
Also, because I just upgraded Pages and was previously using Pages 09 it keeps asking me each time I open a document if I want to upgrade it to the current Pages. Can I somehow set this as default now so I won't keep having to say yes?
Thanks for any help!

To use icloud, enable it (using the same Apple ID) on all your devices. If you move a document that already exists to iCloud, it will automatically be available to all your devices. Ditto on new doc: if you save it to icloud when you name it, it will automatically be available to all your devices. If you make a change on one device, you'll be prompted on other devices to pick the one you want to keep,
One BIG proviso: pages 5.1, and Pages for icloud, are VERY BUGGY. Users here complain of corrupted files, lost data, the program hanging, etc. DO NOT user them for anything you care about.
Also, Pages 5.1, as exhaustively documented here, is a pale shadow of Pages 4.3. Nearly a hundred features present in 4.3 are not present in Pages 5.1, including such basic things as mail merge, bookmarks, meaningful Applescript and Services support. You cannot even set the default zoom, reliably export documents with links to a PDF, or view comments while editing (nor can you print comments). It is useless for page layout since you can no longer view a page spread, nor set alernating left/right margins and headers and footers. A lot of advance typographical support has gone missing, too. Non contgious text selection? Gone. How many pages in your document? You have to dig down in the little "word count" bubble (after turning it on) to find out. Why? As an early review put it, Pages 5 is an "unmitigated disaster."
To stop being promted to update, go to system preferences and uncheck "automatically check for updates."

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Just thought I'd add my solution, I decided to go with WebDAV and I think it actually works better than the iTunes way, the steps are pretty much the same but avoiding the iTunes interface just makes things easier and faster.
I followed this guide but it does have a small mistake in the httpd-dav.conf file, on line 2, where it's WebServer/WebDAV">, it should be <Directory "/Library/WebServer/WebDAV">.
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