Rachel and Eugenia, thanks so much for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I have not gotten either of them to work.
for the sake of my homework I ended up just opening a new document and retyping it from the original document so I was able to hand it in. thank goodness it wasn't a very long assignment so it wasn't a big deal. But this is happening with all pages documents. After I finished with my homework I did a little experiment. I opened a new pages document, typed something in it and quit pages. when I tried to open it, it opened fine but again, I couldn't type in it or delete anything from it. when I tried to select all and copy and paste, it would select all but I couldn't copy. that's why I couldn't take Rachel's suggestion of copying and pasting into text edit. it selects all but won't let me copy. the quicknav keys are turned off. I even turned voiceover off thinking it might be a VO issue but it did the same thing with voiceover off. just clunked at me when I tried to type in the document. It's as if the documents are locked but they aren't. when I get info on the files, it says I have permission to read and write. yesterday when I first noticed this happening I tried repairing my permissions and it didn't fix. I tried Eugenia's suggestion of renaming the backup and deleting the original but it did the same thing with the renamed backup. I opened it up and couldn't manipulate the text in the document. I'm getting a bit worried cuz I have a research paper for one of my classes that I wanna start working on soon. I don't wanna be fighting with pages when it comes down to doing serious writing. that just sounds too…PC-esque. it seems like it's some kind of weird permissions issue. when I do the same thing with text edit, it works fine. I'm able to open a new document in text edit, write in it, close it and write in it again with no problems. it's just pages. peace and positivity Jessica and Goldina follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/canadian_diva On 2011-09-15, at 5:36 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Jessica and Goldina > I had this happen to me, and I wrote Apple about it. In my case, I had a > backup file that was label by the computer as backup. I deleted the original > (with the idea that I could get it out of trash if I had to. Then I renamed > the backup file by taking out the word backup and leaving in the original > name, thus giving me a file with the same name as the one I just deleted. > When I did this, it worked like a charm. All my data was there, too. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Sep 14, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Jessica and Goldina wrote: > >> Jessica and Goldina > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
