Numbers 3 & Google Drive - My fix for newer version error

Question

HI there,
I recently encountered the "You need a newer version of Numbers to open this spreadsheet." error message when opening a numbers 3 spreadsheet that I hadn't used for three weeks or so.  It worked fine previously but now it didn't want to open.
I googled the problem and found that various issues can cause this error message to pop up, none of which solved my problem, until I read a post on this forum about dropbox and the new .numbers file/package that got me thinking in the right direction.
My spreadsheets are in my google drive folder, and I had previously noticed that google drive was syncing the new .numbers files as a folder containing the package rather than a single file.  This never stopped anything from opening or working so I figured this was how google was going to handle the change to numbers 3.
Newly created numbers 3 spreadsheets work fine, but older number 2.3 spreadsheets that were previously updated to numbers 3 seem to cause problems when used with google drive.  Google drive's software updated itself on my mac a little while ago, this is probably related.
MY FIX - Resync the file stored on google drive
(worked for me, backup before trying anything obviously)
Google drive must be running, I'd quit numbers too, and you need to be connected to the internet.
From your mac, move the spreadsheet out of your google drive folder onto your desktop (or wherever really).  This will move the file that google has to the bin on google drive, you'll probably get a message pop up from google drive about moving the file to the bin etc.
Now go to google drive on the web, go to your bin and find the spreadsheet you just moved/deleted.  For me this was a folder named after my spreadsheet containing the file package.  I had to sort the bin by "recently added" to find it.
Then restore the whole file/folder back to its original location:
Select the file then click "restore" or right click the file and chose restore.
Next google drive will resync this file back to your mac.  Once it was synced fully sync I could open it fine in numbers 3.  Then I trashed the old file that I moved to the desktop previously.
This method will probably work for pages and keynote files that can't be opened if they're on google drive.  I think dropbox may have updated itself to fix these, but if not then resyncing this way

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