Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page that will only allow me to 'Set up iCloud', 'install find my iPhone', and 'Install Find my friends'. There is no option to log in. iCloud IS setup on both devices and apart from this, is functioning as I would expect. I cannot find a place to 'see' the documents as they are stored on iCloud, unlike I could with iDisk in the good old days.... :-)
However, when I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on my Mac Mini, and then to iWork, I see the documents I am seeking. Any that are in Word, or created with the new version of Pages on the iPad (I created a test document yesterday before asking for help) are working as expected and will download. However the documents I created on the iPad in October remain a problem. I can select them and delete them. But if I click on them to try to download them, a flag comes up on the document saying 'Updating' and stays there for ages, like 10 minutes. It looks like these documents are toast. As I said in my original query, the contents of them have already been pasted over into my wordpress travel blog, but geez, if not, I'd be mighty miffed. I imagine I'm not alone. The sequence of events again is. 1. Travelling in Europe, I created a document each day as a diary. It was easier to write into Pages, than straight into the wordpress blog site which I could only do when online. The version of Pages on the iPad was the one current in September/ October, 2011 2. Whilst I was away, iCloud and the updated version of Pages for iPad was released. I did not update whilst away as I needed to connect to my desktop computer. 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. 4. Browsing through Pages yesterday so I could test my new bluetooth keyboard with the intention of recording investigation reports on the iPad, I find these documents written in the previous version are not functioning. This has shaken my confidence in Pages, as if for example I'm in the middle of a major investigation in a workplace dispute and have recorded the evidence of several respondents, then Pages gets updated; am I going to lose access to all my work??? That's a concern for the future. For now, I'll use iWork online to delete these older documents, unless someone has an idea that might resurrect them. For anyone that's interested, my blog is at lawtbm.wordpress.com. It documents a family trip to Europe using Eurail pass for the trains and a self organised itinerary. Thanks Tim On 29/11/2011, at 10:07 PM, cm wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Yes I like the small and light, yet totally functional Apple bluetooth > keyboard as well. > > You could try looking on the iCloud website to see what state iCloud itself > believes the documents are in. If the documents are there you can then > download them to your Mac. > > To check the iCloud website: > > 1) Point Safari at https://www.icloud.com/ and log in using your Apple ID and > password. Check the keep me logged in checkbox if you like. > > 2) Select the iWork icon if it is visible on the screen. If it is not visible > select the cloud icon at the top left of the page and then select the iWork > icon. > > 3) You will then see all the iWork documents that you have stored on iCloud. > If the documents you are after are there, clicking on them will display a > Download button that will allow you to download a copy to your Mac. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 29/11/2011, at 20:30 , Tim Law wrote: > >> First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store >> sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. >> It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it >> more - in particular with Pages which I've had on the iPad for over a year. >> >> Whilst travelling in October this year, I wrote a number of diary >> notes/blogs in Pages on the iPad. When I arrived back in Australia, I >> upgraded to the new version of Pages, and also OS5 and started syncing with >> iCloud. >> >> Now I find I cannot open the documents I created in Europe. I cannot select >> them either when using the Edit command in Pages. There are about 15 >> documents. Some of them have a bar across the bottom that looks like it is >> waiting to download. Others have an arrow on the top right hand corner, but >> when I tap them to open them, I get a message saying I need to be connected >> to the internet. But I already am connected.... >> >> These are not documents created on the Mac with a desktop version of Pages, >> these are documents I created on the same iPad, but now since an upgrade, I >> cannot do anything with them. >> >> Fortunately the stories have already been pasted into a proper online blog, >> but if they hadn't been, I'd be really stressed about not being able to >> open them. >> >> I have an iPad 1, with all software up to date. >> >> I've not tried to find these documents on my desktop Mac Mini or open them >> on Desktop Pages. 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