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I use El Capitan. I have been afraid to upgrade for fear of not being able to open my many (MANY!) pages documents. Will I have to open each and every doc before moving up to each follow-on OS upgrade?
Will I only be able to open them in "text??
It seems that some features of older Pages documents may be lost when you update them in Pages, if those features are not supported in the newer version.
You may find this article helpful. Open older iWork files in newer versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote - Apple Support
It seems that some features of older Pages documents may be lost when you update them in Pages, if those features are not supported in the newer version.
You may find this article helpful. Open older iWork files in newer versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote - Apple Support
Should not be a problem to open your pages documents.
The model and year of your Mac will determine which macOS you can upgrade to,
please use Safari to access the following links,
How to upgrade to macOS Mojave - Apple Support
How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support
Before upgrading make a full back up of your Mac.
Check that third party apps you use have updates available for the new OS.
Check that your printers/ scanners etc have updated drivers and software available for the new OS.
Connect your mac to your router via cable rather than rely on WiFi.
Do not use your mac while it is downloading
and do not use any other devices that share the same internet connection.
If you are considering upgrading to Catalina be warned that it does not support 32bit apps.
Your Mac is probably running 32bit apps and these will need to be updated to 64bit apps,
some updates may be free, some may be paid. Use this app to discover which apps you have
are 32bit, https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/. Once the list has been created you can then
contact the developers of the apps to see if they provide 64bit updates.
How to upgrade to macOS Catalina – Apple Support
Documents created in Pages 'YY are in an entirely different document format than the newer Pages produce since Fall 2013. Also, Pages applications introduced since Fall 2013 are not a port of Pages '09 code, but rather entire rewrites omitting several Pages '09 features. Though some of these have been added over time, their implementation is often quite different.
As long as you do not agree to the dialog in newer Pages asking to convert the document when you attempt to make any change, then the original document is preserved as viewed. Only when you agree to allow the newer version of Pages to convert the document do you forever lose your original older document format, as it is now in the current Pages document format, less any unsupported features. Some older documents using custom template features that are not supported in the newer Pages applications simply will not open.
There is a dedicated Pages for Mac community available to you for future topical questions.
Pages '09 v4.3 will run through macOS High Sierra 10.13.6; fails to work on Mojave 10.14.0 thru 10.14.4, and resumes working on Mojave 10.14.5 and 10.14.6. As a 32-bit application, it does not work on Catalina 10.15.* at all.
Are you referring to the Pages app. That is an Apple app so there should be no problem opening your documents. The Pages app is part of the Catalina installation.
Before upgrading, you should make a Time Machine backup of your computer so that you can restore from that if anything goes wrong. Or you could make a clone by using third-party apps such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
Thank you. It is the Pages app. I just know that I have some old docs that I can now only open in text (which can be a problem, depending on what it is/was. I also know that sometimes I'll open a doc and it will ask if I want to upgrade it (the specific doc I'm opening- to which I always say 'yes'.) So I'm concerned if I go from El Capitan to the next OS upgrade and then the next and next to get caught up I will lose access to some of my Pages docs because I will have skipped openning each in the newer Pages version (if any, in each new OS upgrade). The only way I see around that is to open each and every Pages doc (a great many!) so I can click on 'yes' whatever upgrade may be on that next OS. I am assuming if I don't, I will; lose access to them.
Thank you so much.
I have an iMac 21.5 inch ( Late 2013)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
I'm running El Capitan.
I had planned on going through Sierra, then High Sierra, and then Mojave..... But I will check those links you sent me.
Also, I back up through Time Machine onto my standalone hard drive (for confidentiality). I assume that even though I backup there, If there is a problem I would only be able to open them if I had access to the Pages version that I mad them on. Correct?
Again, thank you. I'll take a look.
I use El Capitan. I have been afraid to upgrade for fear of not being able to open my many (MANY!) pages documents. Will I have to open every doc before moving up to each OS upgrade
