Pages quits on startup with iCloud turned on

Question

After upgrading my iPad Air 16GB to 7.0.4, iPages would no longer run. The app would start to load then quit. Reloaded the system and restored the software to the iPad and then started Pages. Without iCloud the app would start and run. Turning on iCloud would terminate the app.
I reloaded the system again and this time set it up as new and loaded only Pages. Same behavior. Pages quits on startup if iCloud is turned on. I found references to similar problems with iCloud and Numbers, Keynote and Pages going back to September. I tried logging in with a different account on iCloud and Pages ran okay. So some problem with the iCloud account. I logged into the account using safari and tried to open some of the files using the Pages web version. Some of the files would not open. I tried to download the files using select all and got non-sensical messages about different devices modifying the files and asking me to resolve the conflict. I did this for hundreds of files one at a time. I ws finally able to download some files and I then decided to clean out all the files on iCloud. I slected all and hit downoad and waited, after a while Safari reported a communication error and I was back where I was with no files downloaded. So I startd downloading them in small batches. Out of each group of 7 or 8 one or two would be bad. They could not be opened on the web or from another instance of Pages running on an iMac. the double step of downloading the file then deleting it in the web browser was taking too much time - I had over 700 files in iCloud. I started to use the Pages app on the iMac to move the files to a local folder - one at a time. Moving them also removed the file from iCloud.
Threre was no way to deal with folders so files that I had grouped into folders had to be moved out and then moved to the machine one at a time. Eventually I moved all the files over and was left with a strange structure that looked like a folder but was more like a bundle containing a plist and other system files. I was able to delete that using the web interace and my iCloud was empty!
I got pages running on the iPad and was finally able to get it to burp one time and continue to run with iCloud enabled. It moved a file I had created on the iPad into iCloud and I was able to access it on the iMac. I then moved twenty or so files from the iMac into iCloud and they eventually sunk with the iPad and I was able to open and edit the file.
My conclusion. iCloud is broken and not fit for professional use. The files you have in iCloud are not backed up and you are in danger of random corruption of your data. The tools you have to deal with the iCloud store are non-existent. Having to open each file in Pages and move it to a local folder one at a time is unacceptable. The lack of any folder level support is ridiculous. Of course maybe I just couldn't find the tutorial on doing file management in iCloud, Is any body else having this problem?

Answer 1

Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Quit the application if it's running. Move the selected item to the Trash. Relaunch the application and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination  command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.