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GMail Blocking Pages 5.0 attachments?

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CopyChief

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Oct 9, 2007
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I can't figure this out. Whenever I try to email a document created with the new Pages application, GMail blocks it due to security concerns. Happens via Apple Mail and the GMail web client.

I wish this was my only problem with Pages!

Yes, I know I can convert it to another format to share the files... but I shouldn't have to workaround (in more clicks than it took before, anyway) in brand-new software.
 
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erthquake

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Haven't used 5.0 yet, but is the Pages document actually a package file? If you right-click on the file, is there an "Open Enclosing Folder" in the context menu? If so, you have to zip (compress) the file before you can send as an attachment. Can't send folders through email.
 
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CopyChief

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erthquake said:
Haven't used 5.0 yet, but is the Pages document actually a package file? If you right-click on the file, is there an "Open Enclosing Folder" in the context menu? If so, you have to zip (compress) the file before you can send as an attachment. Can't send folders through email.
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You're right, yes. Technically I understand this, and it's probably the reason the attachments are getting blocked (they do go through if the file is zipped). But from a practical standpoint, it's terrible. (Especially since Pages or Mail do not automatically compress the file, instead directly attaching it to the email.)
 
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radicalcentrist

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noticed this last night

It used to be that you couldn't email .pages files from the web interface, but using a gmail IMAP account via Mail.app worked just fine. Not with Pages 5, though.

The zip archive is definitely the way to go. I don't know if Apple and Google will get this figured out.
 
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CopyChief

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radicalcentrist said:
The zip archive is definitely the way to go. I don't know if Apple and Google will get this figured out.
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The "way to go" for me is, unfortunately, to use the old version. I'd love to be able to streamline things between iOS and OSX (especially with the new iPad Air coming out...) but it's just not going to happen for me yet.
 
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Mangowoman

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Oct 31, 2013
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Page 5 and gmail

I'm so relieved to read this thread. I updated to Pages 5 today and have been going crazy with a lot of things I don't like about it, but the worst part was not being able to send out documents via gmail - being blocked. So aggravating. But at least now I know it's not just me that's being blocked.

I also am annoyed that they dropped the Search feature which was a column on the left that listed the pages of everywhere in the document that the word or phrase you are looking for is located. So simple to scroll through and leap through the document. I am working on a document that is close to 90,000 works and I need this. Using Find to search word by word is painful.

And there's more but mostly all I wanted to do today was email a copy to myself - it's my added back up. But no, can't do it.
 
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