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MacOS 15 has made Apple Pages won't open docx files.
If the file has *.doc extension, it works. Even if i rename docx files to doc 's one.
IS there any guesses what can be done to restore proper Apple Page behavior?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.0
The issue was with LaunchService. If you have something like this one (it may happen with any files' format), just try to reset LaunchService by running the following commands:
I found the right answer to the problem (at least for me). @tinodj has been right, but no proper execution.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network
killall Dock
The issue was with LaunchService. If you have something like this one (it may happen with any files' format), just try to reset LaunchService by running the following commands:
I found the right answer to the problem (at least for me). @tinodj has been right, but no proper execution.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network
killall Dock
And my Pages v14.2 on macOS Sequoia opens any random Word document I care to select. So something is messed up in your account or applications that previously opened these Word documents have corrupted them.
Start by removing any anti-virus software that you may be using.
I have no anti-virus software. And I have tried everything that you have suggested in this thread Pages no longer opens Word (.docx) docume… - Apple Community -- It does happen in Safe Mode. Thus i have really no idea what has went wrong. PTTX, XLSX works fine.
Do you have any ideas ?
Since I don't have this issue with Microsoft documents, I have provided all of the suggestions I can in the link you provided. I noticed no one there confirmed that they had followed my advice about opening the problematic Word documents in LibreOffice Writer and then resaving them — before another attempt at opening them in Pages.
For Pages not opening Word .docx documents, they must be corrupted in some fashion by other software, and LibreOffice may be able to fix that issue. Or, the documents were dragged out of OneDrive while encrypted and not by using the OneDrive application to decrypt them before using Pages on them.
Actually They are not corrupted. I have used work laptop with MacOS 14.4 and it opens. The same file. It looks like the issue with Associated file extensions (Bundle Resources). I think I may try to reinstall MacOS 15. Or something like that.
You may give a look to this thread: Pages no longer opens Word (.docx) docume… - Apple Community
Some people get the same issues with different office files.
Quite interesting fact, that App Store does not suggest pages to be able to open DOCX, however "info.plist" contains the proper information:
@vikingOSX do you have any ideas what may went wrong ?
You worried me for a moment as I just upgraded to Sequoia yesterday.... but my Pages 14.2 opens .docx files instantly... so you have some other problem.
Have not worked.
The issue was with LaunchService. Rebuilding it has resolved the issue. All files opens as expected without resaving them and so on.
Thank you for that, everything works as expected now.
MacOS 15 has made Apple Pages won't open docx files
