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Permission to view/edit document in Pages on my iPad

I keep getting periodic messages from Pages on my iPad when I try to open documents that I have created and are located in various places on my iPad. Most often I am using a Dropbox to open my files. I get a message that says

The file “.......” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it. You don’t have permission.

I hope somebody can help with this. It is extremely frustrating. The document opens in Word just fine, but not in Pages.

iPad Pro, iOS 12

Posted on Jul 1, 2019 7:48 AM

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Posted on Jul 15, 2019 7:46 PM

Hello,

This could be a bug when attempting to open a document from Dropbox. Try saving your document to the Files application before trying to open it.

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Permission to view/edit document in Pages on my iPad

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