Trying to save a new document and then "The file "lyrics project.pages-tef" couldn't be opened."
As the title says... Open Pages, Create new document, click Save, the dialog box comes up, I give it a name and select the Desktop as the destination, click OK, the dialog box disappears for about a second and then I get the above message.
No way to save the doc. I even copied the text, opened another new document, Renamed it and tried to save and same results. It's a very simple document saved in Pages format, without involving iCloud so it should be as easy as it gets. On top of that, I just want to Save. Why is it trying to Open something???
I ended up having to copy the text into an email and sending it to myself in order to copy it into a SimpleText file.
Any ideas on what might have been going wrong?
MacBook Pro 13, OSX 10.8.2, current version of Pages.
Thanks much.
Bo
That is the iCloud version of the document as I understand it. There is a version saved on the Net for iCloud to be shared and a local version on your hard drive. One of those is currently inaccessible.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1163173/bugs_and_fixes_losing_iwork_documents_in _icloud.html
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