Sharing Documents between the iPad and Mac using iCloud?

I use Pages on my iPad and have it set to share documents via iCloud. When I open Pages on my iMac,however, I do not see any way to access those documents on iCloud. Am I missing something really obvious?

I have absolutely the latest apps and operating system on my iPad and my iMac.
The whole point, I thought, of iCloud's documents sync is that documents should be easily sync'd between Pages, Numbers and Keynote on different platforms.
Pages on the iPad and iPhone store the docments in a "special" folder. In Mac OSX documents can be saved anywhere on the Mac.
I don't know about the "native" file format on the iPhone of iPad, but if I email the document to my Mac, Pages on the Mac can open the file. Its just that I shouldn't have to email it since it's already on iCloud and the Mac has a connection to iCloud.
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TS1702 I have recently begun to use Pages and want to transfer a document between the iPad and my PC. I can transfer to the iPad, but not the other way, and am told I do not have sufficient 'privileges'. What does this mean? Also can't use iCloud with Pag

I have recently begun to use Pages and want to transfer a document between the iPad and my PC. I can transfer to the iPad, but not the other way, and am told I do not have sufficient 'privileges'. What does this mean? Also I can't use iCloud with Pages between the iPad and PC, although I purchased extra storage in order to do this.

If you have a PC, you don't have Pages on it. You can transfer Pages presentations to/from iCloud via http://www.icloud.com , however -- you just won't have an app on your PC to deal with Pages documents. Make sure that you have your iCloud account properly configured on your iPad.

Files do not sync between iPad and Mac using iCloud

I have Pages and Numbers installed on by my iMac and my iPad. I have iCloud set up on each as well.
When I create new documents on my iPad, they do not appear on my iMac. Similarly, when I create new documents on the iMac and save to iCloud, they do not appear on the iPad.
I have tried turning document syncing on and off on the iMac. I have also tried turning syncing off and back on for each individual app on the iPad. I checked some of the other discussions on this topic. I have checked all my account settings, and I don't see any references to "Mobile Me" anywhere, so I'm not sure that's causing any issues, as I've read may be the case with some other users.
I noticed something that I thought was strange. When I have sync turned on everywhere and I modify a document or create a new document on the iMac, after opening the corresponding program on the iPad, the "Use iCloud" option under that app is set to "Off" in the iPad Settings. This even happens when no modifications have been made to any documents. If I set all "Use iCloud" options to "On" and then quit all running programs on the iPad, if I relaunch either Pages or Numbers, that app's "Use iCloud" option is reset to "Off" when I go back into settings on the iPad.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any help.

I was just looking at this again and noticed something strange.
Under the iCloud section of the Settings on my iPad, I don't have a "Documents and Data" option. Essentially, every time I use a program that wants to access iCloud for documents, that program's individual settings are reset to not use iCloud.
Any thoughts?
Thanks again for any help.

How do you update to iPad and mac using icloud

I am using iCloud. I upload to my iPad and then might change it. How do I access the updated version back at my mac?

Hey kevin1953
I'd read over the following document to access your iCloud documents on your MacBook Pro:
iCloud: Access iWork documents stored in iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2704
Download documents from iCloud iWork to a Mac or Windows computer
Before you can open a document stored in iCloud from a Windows computer or a Mac with OS X v10.7.5 or later, you must download the document to your computer from iCloud iWork.
In iCloud iWork, click the button for the type of document you wish to download: Keynote for presentations, Pages for word processing, or Numbers for spreadsheets.
If necessary, select the folder that contains the document.
Do one of the following:
Select a document and choose an option from the Download menu.
Select multiple documents to download, and choose Download document type from the Action pop-up menu.
On your Mac, Shift-click to select multiple adjacent documents or Command-click to select multiple nonadjacent documents.
On your Windows computer, Shift-click to select multiple adjacent documents or Control-click to select multiple nonadjacent documents.
Have a great day,
David

I am thinking of buying a iPad but my main desktop machine uses Windows 7 and MS Office. How easy or difficult is it to transfer data files between the iPad and Windows? Are there obvious problems or the need for some form of conversion programs?

I am thinking of buying a iPad but my main desktop machine uses Windows 7 and MS Office. How easy or difficult is it to transfer data files between the iPad and Windows? Are there obvious problems or the need for some form of conversion programs?
Many thanks for any advice.
David

You don't need conversion programs, iTunes can copy most of your content over to the iPad via the file sharing section, and some apps also support Dropbox, email attachments, transfer via your wifi network. There are a number of apps that you can get that support Microsoft office file (microsoft don't make an app versions of their software) e.g. from Apple there are Pages (word support), Numbers (excel) and Keynote (powerpoint), and from third-parties there are apps such as Documents To Go and QuickOffice HD

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I was trying to connect my ipad and iphone using icloud. After signing in on both devices I clicked merge. I went to check my calendar and all my events were gone. Is there any way I can get my events back?

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Check to see if they are on your calendar on icloud.com. If they aren't, all you can do is try to restore to your last backup, although it isn't clear that calendar events are included in the iCloud backup.

It appears that I can not share documents between my iMacs and mac air without first opening document in an IOS device. Is this correct? If so then iCloud for me is a giant step backward especially since idisk will be discontinued next year.

It appears that I cannot share documents between my iMacs and and Mac air using icloud without first opening document in and IOS device. Is this true. If so, then icould is petty much worthless for me, especially since idisk will be discontinued next year.

jack198 wrote:
You are correct. However, a document can not be opened by another computer unless the document has first been open by an iDevice.
iwork on iOS uses different file formats ( *.tef ) then iwork09 on Mac ( *.key , *. number , *.page ).
Uploaded documents to icloud.com must first be updated to the *.tef format and then re-written to the cloud system. The online service behind the iwork web-app does the re-conversion to Mac formats, pdf or Microsoft office. All that is happening "in the cloud", not on your Mac as he misses the engine to do the transcoding from the *.tef to the other formats. Mac simply does not know what *.tef is.

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Even directly plugging in my two devices to eachother I cannot get my documents onto both of my devices unless I go through a rediculously long route to do so. The only reason I got the IPAD was to NOT have to go save afile on my computer, email it to myself, switch to my ipad, open my email, open attachment into Textius (the app I PAY FOR), save it onto the device. I have 26 items to do this to. I can do this faster on my phone because my comuter recgnizes it as a device at least i can drag and drop there! I paid too much money to deal with this ****. air drop doesnt work for me and I would like to understand why in the world it doesnt work between my own devices.

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I'm syncing pics in LR between my iPad and Mac. Later, how can I remove the pictures from my iPad and keep it on my LR on my Mac?

I understand the pictures are kept in the Cloud but I want to change my catalog so that it will recognize the pictures only on my Mac. Then I can clear up space on my iPad.

Even though iCloud can back up some content it is intended more to keep multiple iOS devices synced up rather than being a place to back up your content. The Camera Roll is included in the iPad's Backup however there is no way to access the back up's content without Restoring the iPad. If you wipe the photos from the iPad's Photo Roll the new back up file created will also have them removed.
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Hello
I created a new spreadsheet on the ipad. When I went to sync in itunes it created a file called blank. Better yet how do I work on it. I dragged to desktop and launched pages. Has to be a better way.
Charlie

confirmed on the renaming issue. Just tap the name while in file selection area and rename.
Better yet how do I work on it. I dragged to desktop and launched pages. Has to be a better way.
Nope, that sounds about right (except that you would have launced Numbers for a spreadsheet). You copy it off the ipad through iTunes and open it in the parent app.
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I may not be the best person to give advice on this because I only have one iOS device, but I don't see why having two devices would be any different. I purchase apps on the iTunes store on my Mac's iTunes app and they appear on my iOS device, where I sync with iCloud using my Apple ID. I would think that all devices connected in that way would be treated equally. Having read the license agreement, I know that such purchases are shared legally across the Apple ID account.
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Icloud not syncing between iPhone,ipad and mac

Hi all
Have numbers synced on my imac, ipad and iphone 4s.
This morning i done a lot of work on my iphone and now im home to work o the mac its nnot synced. Nor has the Ipad?
The imac has t2 documents that keep trying to load but when they get to completion they go back to start downloading.
Everything ive done on my iphone toad needs syncing to both ipad anfd mac. To much work to lose
Please help anyone
Heres a screenshot of the mac trying to load

Go to the Apple menu >> system preferences >> icloud. Make sure you're logged in with the same apple ID as you are on the other two devices. If you're already signed in, you can click on Account details to verify that.
Then, make sure you have safari checked off in the icloud preferences. If you already do, uncheck them for a minute or so. Then recheck them.
See if that helps.

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