Pages and dropbox
Im using dropbox and I'm able to open a file from the dropbox folder using numbers or pages on my iPad but then the changes i make to the files don't sync back to the copy of the file in dropbox, it just saves as a new file in the numbers or pages app. Isn't there a way to save those edits to the dropbox file? That way the changes would then sync to the files online and on my PowerBook.... That kinda seems like the point to dropbox?????? What am I missing?
If you want to send Pages, Numbers or Keynote documents (back) to DropBox you can use this service, Send to DropBox.
http://sendtodropbox.com/
You will be given an email address that you use to send the document too. Copy and save this email address for future use.
See the image below to send document back to DropBox:
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On my iPad, I'm trying to open a PDF from Safari with iBooks, but when I choose "Open with ..." in Safari, only Pages and Dropbox show as options. I'm running iOS 7.1.2 and iBooks 3.2. I have rebooted the iPad and that did not help, and reinstalled iBooks, which also changed nothing. Thanks for any ideas!
Yup, it was uploaded to our school Wiki as a PDF, and Pages did open it. I was then able to move it to iBooks, but I'd rather avoid the extra steps.
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these two apparently will NOT work together? MS Office the answer? Ugh. Is this unfriendly collaboration issue going to be "corrected" by Apple or no?
Pages 5 has a complex and unique file bundle format. Designed to make it impossible to extract any contents when the inevitable goes wrong.
GMail, Amazon, Dropbox etc (almost any non-Apple Server software) just don't understand them.
Send the files via Apple Mail.
Peter -
So since the last update to Pages, I have noticed I can directly put files into Dropbox app on my iPad mini. However, when I go to open the file (saved as a .docx) I am unable to view the file in dropbox. It just shows a message saying what kind of file. Office Open KML (?) or something like that. I have no problem opening other word documents that were placed into the dropbox folder from my computer though.
Even doing the old email it to myself then open in dropbox doesn't work. More of Apple being Apple and wanting you to only use their products?Pages 2.0.1 on iOS and Pages 5.0 on OS X use a new and different file format to the old iOS and OSX Pages, and Dropbox does not recognise documents created in this new file format. It can't open them, it can only open Pages documents stored in the old Pages 09 format (or Word's .doc or .docx format of course).
The new OS X Pages 5.0 allows you to export documents in the old Pages 09 format, but the new iOS version of Pages does not, it only supports the new document format.
Whether Dropbox will be able to reverse engineer the new Pages document format and add support for it to their iOS app is an open question at the moment. As far as I'm aware Apple have not published the details of the new Pages file format anywhere so it would have to be reverse-engineered by third party developers from scratch. How many will go to this trouble?
Btw the same applies to the new versions of the other iWork apps - Keynote and Numbers - they all use a new file format that is different to the previous versions on both iOS and OS X. The good news, and one of the reasons for the change, is that at least now the new iWork file formats are the same on both OS X and iOS, which means you no longer get all the Mac to iOS conversion issues with iWork documents. The other reason for the change is that the new iWork file format(s) are more iCloud friendly and so integrate better with it than the old formats which were developed before iCloud existed. -
How can transfer documents created/modified in Pages and Numbers to Dropbox other than emailing them?
If you are working within your own network, there are apps that allow this. One that seems to work well for me is called Fingerprint - it allows you to access non-AirPrint printers on your network, save to Dropbox, open a document directly on your Mac and save to iPhoto or Evernote:
http://www.collobos.com -
I have been creating docs on my imac with pages and saved them to dropbox and then on my Ipad i go to dropbox and open my doc with pages. Now with the updated pages on Imac and the new app on Ipad I cannot open the new docs on my ipad I created on my Imac. Help!
Apple has changed the file formats and some online services are having trouble with them.
Try Exporting them to Word .docx
Peter -
So, iDisk (great with MobileMe) is closed! Ok. I got the most expensive iCloud Plan and LOVED storing files online. Is that REALLY OVER??!! (besides Numbers', Pages', and Keynote's docs sync).. Will I REALLY have to downgrade to "free" on iCloud and PAY for "DropBox", "Google Drive" or "Microsft's Sky Whatever.."?!!
I could not log in to this Support Community with my UPDATED Apple ID (and this is another issue I can't believe Apple just says "NO, you CAN'T!" - deleting other (old) Apple IDs we've created by mistake or a long time ago and being able to have it all on ONE SINGLE UPDATED Apple ID - ALSO saving Apple's storage servers, etc.).
Anyway, my Apple ID for better communication is [email protected] (but I really couldn't log in here - it kept saying that the e-mail is already registered, etc. I know it, I'm trying to use it here, that's all...
So, really. Of course a lot of people don't care about the iDisk issue. That's fine, we all love and hate specific apps or software.. But why has Apple just shut it down, since it was so EASY to use (as DropBox) on all our Apple devices?!! So, we really can't upload/store any kind of files anymore and that's it?!
I used iDisk when MobileMe was still alive, and it was great to have my files from work, home, any backup (whatever we want) uploaded and synced and used in our Macs, iPhones and iPads. If we have the OPTION of an iCloud Plan (the top one, for example), but we just don't like the automatick backups for the iPhones and iPads, nor the Pictures' sync function.. Why can't we just have the SAME simple and efficient/great service of the iDisk installed in each device?!
Do we really have to go back and downgrade back to the free iCloud Option (just for keeping the e-mail) and paying extra for DropBox, Google, Microsoft, any other services?! I have nothing against them - I actually have DropBox and it works great because it REMINDS me of iDisk!! But WHY NOT just keep it simple and closed with 1 company/platform/option - Apple's iOS, OSX, etc.
That's why I decided to have a Macbook Pro, an iPhone 4S and an iPad 3rd. Generation (for example, along with other products and services such as Apple TV).. I know I'm CHOOSING to stay with 1 world, that's fine. And that's why I didn't (yet) go for a Samsung phone or another tablet.. I wanna stick with 1 pattern and I have chosen Apple's..
Just can't understand such an innovative company make such decisions (such as shutting down iDisk or not letting us just DELETE Apple IDs we do NOT use anymore).. Please, just some guidance or confirmation if that's correct: No way of uploading files others than Numbers', Pages' or Keynote's!!??
Thank you very much!!
Peace.Thank you Roger.
That's exactly what I was afraid of...
During all the time I have been a loyal customer of Apple's products and services, these have been the only 2 issues that I really can't understand (specially when we look at Apple's strategies and management)...
1) Not being able to DELETE (simply delete or deactivate) old or duplicated Apple IDs... I have 3 different Apple IDs but only one is the real Apple ID I use for everything, with all my purchases and services (such as e-mail) related to it (Why won't Apple jus let people delet, deactivate or - at least - merge Apple IDs?! That would help everyone, including Apple when we think about costs, storage, database maintenance, etc.) - Actually, even when I gave up on trying to delete other Apple IDs, I tried to have the one I really use and have organized to use my @me.com address as the Apple ID itself (as Apple asks us to do - and makes sense, of course). But never worked. Just because I created that Apple ID with a @hotmail.com account (since it asks for a valid e-mail when you create an Apple ID, it NEVER lets me now change my Apple ID to my @me.com e-mail address - I mean JUST having my @me.com e-mail address as my primary e-mail and my Apple ID (for example, having that old @hotmail.com e-mail address out of it, cleaned..)!
2) The other issue was this one, about iDisk. Of course there must be reasons for having it shut down, maybe the apps used by iPhone and iPad, along with the folder on Mac OSX, is way too complicated, expensive, full of bugs, I don't know. But if we decide to pay for 50GB of online storage, why even THINK about different options for files we use?! I have Dropbox, I've read about Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive, etc. But I just wanted to STICK with a single ALL-APPLE solution.. That is.. Pay the annual fee for the 50GB and just still keep any file I want on the cloud with iDisk. So, what Apple tells me is that if I have other files than iWork or PDF (and some few exceptions), I should actually downgrade to "free" iCloud and decide to PAY for another solution (organization), such as DropBox, Google Disk or Drive (I don't really know), Micrsoft's SkyDrive..
Of course there's the strategy of getting more and more people to use Pages, Numbers and Keynote (buying them for iOS and Mac OSX, as I already have and love them). But "killing" iDisk and just telling users to look for other storage solutions doesn't really sound like Apple.
I have seen so many questions here about both issues (deleting or merging Apple IDS + iDisk back since we pay for storage) that I really believe Apple should reconsider these issues or, at least, open the issue and let us know what would be the best "partner solution" for iCloud...
Thanks a lot!
All the best...
Eduardo Rocha.
[email protected] -
So far I have found the following issues using Pages and iCloud both on iPad and iMac.
1. I migrated 2 mobileme accounts to iCloud. The pages option to use iCloud would not stay on. This could only beresolved by deleting one of the mail accounts.
2. Pages froze after editing a document and closing it when there was no internet connection. I had to reboot the iPad.
3. The user interface for Folders on the iPad and in iCloud>iWork on iMac is extermely poor. On the iPad there is no way of organising documents in a folder or displaying them other than as thumbnails. On the iMac it is not possible to create folders, organise the contents of those created on iPad, or display other than thumbnails.
If this is Apple's attempt to lure people to Cloud computing then it is not a good start. They should have ported iDisk. I will go back to DropBox.Though no one replied to this topic, I'm updating with what I've learned after spending many hours on the phone with an Apple tech rep who had esacalated to engineers. There is NO solution. Docs that are out of sync or unretrievable from iCloud or iCloud Drive, they cannot assist with. They offered to wipe my iCloud Drive account and reset it, but I wanted them to restore it afterwards. Just a simple, pull the data off, dump it on an FTP server so I can access it. Nope. No assistance. Not their problem. I have to manually pull ALL the files off my iPad's iCloud account, the ones I can get to and go through this insane 6 step process to get to those docs. Really disappointed with Apple. Using MS Word on the iPad and though not perfect...at least the Pages docs won't be lost.
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I am experiencing issues with my imac. As I was browsing Chrome this morning I went to load a page and suddenly it would not load and gave a page cannot be displayed error. Since then I'm having issues.
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Hello there,
I love iCloud, it's great for address book and calendars and iWork documents and other apps.
But it's not dropbox, in the way that the documents you save (in my case it's mostly Numbers, Pages and IAWriter documents) are not on your hard drive the way that they are on your dropbox.
I work with an iMac at home, I have a Mac Mini at work, and a Macbook for travelling.
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I would love to find a way to save on both iCloud and Dropbox (or at least, both iCloud and my hard drive, than I can drop manually my stuff on dropbox)
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