On 29/09/2011, at 2:22 PM, Juliet Kitson wrote: > Hello All > I have a pages file I have been working on for about 12 months it a log of > our travels around aus. was up to 104 pages, opened today added 3 pages > saved took a long time went to reopen message " could not open required xml > index file could not be found”.
Hi Juliet, Firstly, Pages is not the best Application for really large documents. Are you using Pages’09 (version 4.1)? Are you using Snow Leopard? If you are using Pages’09: A pages document is an archive - unfortunately in the latest version (iwork09) it is not signed as such anymore, the trick is to rename the file to.zip and unpack the zip file. Then it is possible to see if the “index.xml" is there, or if it is renamed to something different such as "index-new.xml" or “index.xml.gz" (the name of course will appear without quotation marks). 1. Press the [control] key and click on the ‘bad’ Pages file. 2. Scroll to ‘Get Info’ and select it In the ‘Name & Extension’ box, delete the ".pages" extension so that "myfilename.pages" reads “myfilename.zip” You will receive a message window “Are you sure you want to change the extension from “.pages” to “.zip”? Select ‘Use .zip” (Don’t worry we’ll put the extension back to “.pages” when we are done. 3. The file will now display as a folder containing multiple files, on your desktop (if that is where you selected to save the file) 4. Open the Folder and inside will be all the files contained within the Pages document. Scroll down and see if “index.xml” is there, or one named as I mentioned above. (without quotation marks) 5. If the file is named “index-new.xml” or “index.xml.gz”, change the extension to .xml 6. Then change the Name on the Folder back to the original by adding the extension “.pages” (without the quotations) You will receive the message window: “Are you sure you want to add the extension “.pages” to the end of the name” Select “Add” 7. Your pages document should now show as your Pages document icon again. 8. Double click it and see if it opens in Pages Application now. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
