Pages 08 corrupt index.xml file

[badsci]

I've searched extensively on this topic, and I'm pretty sure I am out of luck.

However, my perfectly fine pages document from yesterday will not open today. The .xml file seems to be the problem; when I view the package, the index.xml.gz file won't "unzip" to an xml file, and if I just change the file extension, I get a garbled mess.

Is there any way I can get the xml.gz file recovered?

I am very sad. I will no longer be using pages because I can't trust it. What I have read on the 'net is very discouraging.

Yes, yes, backup yes yes all that stuff. However, unless someone has instant simultaneous backup, this kind of thing could still happen - it was just one day, and I don't backup my files every day.

 

[mysterytramp]

Pages 08 has been replaced by Pages 09. How come you haven't upgraded? Might have solved whatever your problem is.

Inside the 08 package there should be a PDF of the formatted document, correct? Your short-terms solution should be to open that PDF in Preview, then copy and paste into a new Pages file.

mt

 

[badsci]

no .pdf file in the package, just the .jpg thumbnail of the first page (preview image).

upgrades cost money, of which I am not made. I do my updates, though, as far as they go.

am re-creating the work in Word, which I hate, but is at least recoverable. No more Pages for me.

 

[Detektiv-Pinky]

What happens if you type the following in Terminal: gunzip index.xml.gz ?

The gz extension means that the file is a zip-archive, so simply renaming it will not do.