Pages won't open recently created document

I am running Yosemite 10.1 and using Pages 5.2. I created a very long handbook document a few day ago and when I try to open it I get "it cannot be opened." HELP!

You need to update Pages v5.2 to v5.5 from the OS X App Store (Updates). The latter version is required on Yosemite. Once you have done this application update, reopen your document with Pages v5.5.

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Iwork09 pages won't open or create documents

Iwork09 pages program disappeared from computer. Reinstalled using supplied disk but I get an error message to check updates. Updates are complete. Why can't I open existing docs. or create new ones. This program has always worked before.

Iwork09 pages program disappeared from computer. Reinstalled using supplied disk but I get an error message to check updates. Updates are complete.
This doesn't make much sense. Can you explain exactly what's happening when you start Pages?

Pages won't open or create documents

That file is not there. Instead the only two similar choices are:
com.apple.iWork.Pages.LSSharedFileLIst.plist
com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist.lockfile
Every time I attempt to open an existing Pages doc that's on my Mac I get the following (doesn't happen with Pages docs in iCloud):
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Iwork09 pages program disappeared from computer. Reinstalled using supplied disk but I get an error message to check updates. Updates are complete.
This doesn't make much sense. Can you explain exactly what's happening when you start Pages?

Pages/iWork '08 Frozen/Won't Open or Create Documents/Tiger 10.4.11

I am running the latest version of Tiger 10.4.11 on my PowerMac G5 and have iWork '08. It has been updated and successfully running well until yesterday. Suddenly, I can no longer open any existing documents without any of the programs freezing (Pages, Keynote or Numbers), nor will the software create new documents or open the template browser. In fact, when trying to open a document the status bar looks like it is opening, then nothing happens and the programs all freeze up. I have to force quit.
I have tried trashing all the preference files already and restarting, to no avail. I have also repaired my permissions, which I do routinely. I have tested the hard drive and it is okay. I am experiencing no other problems with any other apps, etc. Have 4GB RAM and the programs still freeze with no other apps open. This is really bizarre, as trashing the preference files has not helped. Has anyone else experienced this who can help me? I appreciate it very much as I need to access my docs. Thank you so much. Renee

Thank you for your response. Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have been ill with a bad flu the past two weeks. I tried both your suggestions and neither worked. Created a second user account but still can't get ANY of the iWork '08 apps to open documents or create new ones. They freeze up immediately, and won't even open the template browsers. Also tried reinstalling iWork '08 (after deleting all the old app and app-related files), and still no go. Deleted all preference files, etc. without success. Also discovered the same problem with iWeb now, as it will also not run nor can I access any of the template files.
All my other apps are running fine (Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop Lightroom, MS Word and Excel, etc.) and I have tried repairing permissions and disk repair multiple times. Still can't get anything to open. When I try to open an existing document I had created before, all I get is a blank window. Same for trying to create a new document, just a blank white window I cannot type in.
Then I cannot close any of the windows and must quit the iWork '08 programs to exit. I am on Tiger 10.4.11 and have also tested my font database, finding no problems. It is weird to me that I can run MS Word and an industrial page layout program like Adobe InDesign without problems, but cannot run Pages '08 (or Numbers or Keynote or iWeb). Again, reinstalling the apps fresh did nothing. Cannot figure out what the heck is wrong. Sounds like I will have to pay for Apple Tech Support#$$$

My newest version of Pages won't open previous saved documents. It keeps saying this version not supported please update, but it already is. Please help.

My previously saved documents in Pages will not open. When I click on one of the documents it is saying, "you need a newer version of Pages to open this document. You can download the latest version of Pages from the Apps Store, but when I click on the apps store, it states that is installed and running the current version. Help, I can't open any of my saved documents.

The problem is that you have both versions of pages on your computer - pages 09 is in the dock with the old ink pot icon - pages version 5 (orange pen and paper icon) is in your applications folder. Delete your pages 09 icon from your dock by dragging it upwards in a puff of smoke - and drag the pages 05 icon from the applications folder to your dock and use that in future. This fixed it for me.
I presume I can uninstall pages 09 now. You need to do the same with numbers and keynote.

Ipad pages won't open any documents, it lets me create one but won't open it

Basically the title says it all
Ipad pages won't open any documents, it lets me create one but won't open it
I have updated it last night, but the same problem was happening yesterday afternoon
iPad 2 - I bought it March 2012

Check the following settings:
1. Settings>Pages>Use iCloud>On
2. Settings>iCloud>Documents and Data>On

Latest version of Pages won't open documents created in previous version.

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I got the same issue, here is what it says now: "My document" can’t be opened."
iOS Mavericks 10.9.2
Pages 5.1
What I did to get this issue:
- My file was created a month ago in Pages 5.1
- Today, I opened the file normally
- I clicked "duplicate" in order to make a back up from the current version
- The loading wheel kept running for a few minutes...Maybe my cache memory too busy?
- so, I "forced to quit" Pages
- I try to open my doc again in Pages 5.1, now it's a failure!!
- Then i tried to open on another Macbook with Pages 5.1 = Failure
- I updated Mavericks latest updates = Failure to open my doc
- Try to open in pages 4.3 = It says: "You need a newer version of Pages to open this document..."
I need a fix asap, it's terribly important to get my document back

So just the document I was last working on in pages won't open. I can't email it either it just sits preparing the document no matter what format I try. I can copy it, but the copies don't open either.

So just the document I was last working on in pages won't open. I can't email it either it just sits preparing the document no matter what format I try. I can copy it, but the copies don't open either. I tried deleting documents in pages as well as the app and reinstalling it, but nothing has helped.

Try quitting Pages and then reset your iPad.
Double click the Home button to show the screen with running and recently used apps. Each app icon will have a sample page above it. Flick up on the page (not the app icon) and the page will fly away and the app icon will disappear. This quits that app.
Then reset your device. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the device restart. See if that fixes your problem.

How come pages won't open PDF files made by Pages?

How come pages won't open PDF files made by Pages?
I have files I made with Pages and exported as PDF but I can't open them with pages to edit?
Also, where are the recent files created by pages located? Can't find those to open either..

Hi Tom,
I was delighted when I signed up for Pages. Clunky yes, but it worked. I've been a graphic designer on a Mac for 25 plus years and have logged too many horror stories of "upgrade" wars which cost me massive lost time, data and money forcibly extracted just so I could finish a project.
When I first used Pages in April of 2012? or there about, I was able to open Word documents exported to .pdf format, emailed to me, which I then dragged into Pages. I could make the changes I needed to make, export as a .pdf, return it back to my client which they could then edit on whatever it was they were using. I'm not a neophyte with this. I've had Original Photoshop as a stand alone, Quark (which locked users out 6 months after I purchased it.) Quark again, Freehand, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Photoshop again, Creative Suite for several upgrades, Acrobat Pro. 2 years ago I lost 6 years of Quicken data and had to and "upgrade" start over. This last go around I had to "upgrade" my Apple ID - yes I had 2 on purpose, lost my Pandora One and my ability to get into the Tulsa County Library website.
At this point, I'm retired and feel like what I've paid for in the past should WORK today. I have a 100+ page cookbook in Quark which I was able to export as a .pdf, that I've lost the tags too, Easier to start over. I have artwork that is hundreds of megs in Photoshop. Not the least bit interested in anybody's "cloud".
Thanks for letting me vent. I'm determined to keep my equipment and software up to date so I can enjoy the skills I've acquired, but I completely cringe at Apple's antics. I truly hate it when I have to respond to some new "tip" or product offer. BooHiss. Happy Turkey Day. Pages is a "turkey" program.
Best regards, mbd

Pages won't open ANY file, old or new

Pages '09 won't open previously saved documents (.pages or .doc), or open a new document from template. When attempting to open a previously saved document, I get the error message "The document "document-name.pages" couldn't be opened." Pages, as a program, however, stays open. When attempting to open a new document from a template, the progress indicator simply spins forever and does not open a document.
Keynote and Numbers work just fine, both being able to open old and new documents.
When opening an old document, Pages creates these Console messages:
5/25/09 7:10:01 PM Pages[211] Assertion failure: Method: markerOfType:forRulerView:atLocation:listLevelActive:
Object: <SFWPRulerMarker 0x2d10800>
File: /SourceCache/iWorkShared/iWorkShared-408/sfwordprocessing/SFWPRulerMarker.mm
Line #: 202
we should have had an image or an image resource name
5/25/09 7:10:01 PM Pages[211] Exception opening document: * -[SFWPRulerMarker initWithRulerView:markerLocation:image:imageOrigin:]: no image given. NSRulerMarkers must have an image.
5/25/09 7:10:01 PM Pages[211] Failed to open document, but no unrecoverable error
I have tried deleting user, system, and font caches, deleting iWork preference files, and reinstalling iWork, but none of this has worked.

Well I finally got it to work. I uninstalled and AppTrap grabbed a few preference files that belonged to Pages and I allowed it to delete them all. I rebooted and installed iWork again, but I got the same issue, again. I was attempting to select a blank document style from the Template Chooser, but it wouldn't open any, just spinning the wheel in the template preview in the Template Chooser window. I went into preferences and told it to create new files using the Blank template, and that worked. However, it wouldn't let me use the Template Chooser to open a new document.
I saved the new document, created from the Blank template in Template Chooser, to the desktop. I double-clicked on this document and it said it couldn't be opened? However, I could open it from inside Pages, just not by opening the document and having it use the default application (Pages) to open it with.
Lots of odd stuff going on here. I came to the idea that something residual was sitting on my HD, and decided to try a better cleaning. I opened Clean My Mac and dropped Pages on the Applications window. Clean My Mac did a scan and identified a ton of items pertaining to uninstalling Pages, nearly 900MB of misc documents, caches, and other stuff. At this point I wasn't too worried about deleting the wrong thing, as I am nearly ready to wipe and reinstall, whatever it takes to straighten it out.
After removing everything, I did a reboot just to be safe. Then in reinstalled iWork 09, and attempted to open documents using Template Chooser. SUCCESS! However, I remembered that it worked just fine until I applied the 9.0.2 update to iWork, so I was cautiously doubtful that I would be able to work this time once I applied the update. Well, it seems CleanMyMac pulled something off that was complicating things, possibly from the old iWork '08 version, or the Trial Version? I'm not really sure.
Anyhow, thanks for the help and suggestions. I've got a bunch of errors showing-up in the Console, and slowly, little-by-little, I'm working on trying to research and solve them all. I wish I could find a good source for referencing all of the errors that are showing-up, as this seems like it'll take a long time.
Thanks again!
Pete

Installed iWork '09 on MacBook running OSX 10.7.2 and Pages won't open .doc files. Why?

I just recently installed iWork '09 on MacBook running OSX 10.7.2 and Pages won't open .doc files.
I did a search looking for a solution in the forums and here are the actions I've taken:
1) Made sure the files were't read/write protected.
2) Restarted the computer.
3) Made sure all the program files were in the correct folder.
4) Reinstalled the program.
Pages won't read .doc files that were originally Pages files and exported as .docs
It also won't read .doc files that were created using a relatively recent version of Office.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
Please help.

If it's a doc created with the late Office 2011, it's not really surprising.
The importer embedded in iWork application was delivered in january 2009 and didn't evolve.
For this reason, it's unaware of new features delivered with Office 2011.
Better try with LibreOffice.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 3 février 2012
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

New pages won't open on iPad; new pages shows installed on air book but won't open. Related?

new pages program won't open iPad cloud documents without crashing--work around is to not open any documents in clouds, but it saves to clouds anyway; however, new pages program shows installed on air book but won't open new pages documents created on ipad without message "need to install a newer version of pages", which I have done. Are these two problems related?

Double tap Home button and delete Pages from multitask-bar.
Do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears, ignore the Slide to Power Off that appears)
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Try again with Pages.
If no joy, delete Pages and redownload again.

When I enter my user name and password for my e-mail account, the page won't open

My e-mail account page won't open after I enter my user name and password on the log-in page. I have vcrified with Suddenlink that my user name and password are correct.

Thanks Peter.
Partial success in that I have been able to get mails onto the iPad - however....
Progress from a previous 'rumage' on problem discussions. I have succeded in setting up the iPad so that it receives emails from the sky address under 'MAIL' on the iPad. However trying to open in the 'usual' way - safari - then sky - then email - enter user name and password - I get the same result - it just returns to the log in menu for sky email with user name and password blank.
I had a previous problem with the sky mail ceasing to show recent mails, frozen in time on the iPad. Somehow by trying some reset instructions I was able to 'unlock' the iPad and all was OK until it 'froze' again. This time I clearly screwed up attempts to unlock, resulting in not being able to access email accounts via the Sky site !!

Some of my files in pages won't open

Some of my files in pages won't open they say they are downloading and updating but this has been happening for 4weeks? And I can't access the information

Hi peter
It's the App on my iPad called "pages" I have created a files some are white which means I can access them and some are grey these I can't access I was able to approx a month ago but now they are grey and say I can't open them because they are updating? This has been going on for a month.
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I updated to OS 10.8.2 and now Pages won't open

I updated to OS 10.8.2 and now Pages won't open

ted39 wrote:
I updated to OS 10.8.2 and now Pages won't open
Please elaborate on what exactly you mean by it "won't open".
Do you try to launch it and get an error message from the Finder (for example, something like "This application is damaged and cannot be launched....")? Does an icon for the application ever appear in the Dock when you try to launch it? Does it start to launch and then immediately crashes (Finder will display an "unexpectedly quit" dialog)? Or does it start to launch and never seems to "finish" launching (in other words, it basically hangs and is unresponsive)?
If the application crashes, please post the contents of the crash log here.
Otherwise, if the application seems to be hanging, can you, before attempting to launch it, open the Console.app application (it's in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder), and see if anything is reported when you attempt to launch it? If so, please post it here.

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