Do I have any method to repair damaged pages documents? They were deleted on another Mac but under the same account, however after I recovered it, the Mac showed that the format is invalid, and EaseUs support agent said because it was deleting from an SSD,the files are damaged. Do I have any method to repair them?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14
Try using your trusty Time Machine Backup .
Then recover the file from a time before it was damaged / deleted
Try using your trusty Time Machine Backup .
Then recover the file from a time before it was damaged / deleted
LO (7.5.5) has improved its handling of Pages documents from its original support for Pages '09 documents, though I doubt it will behave well with advanced Pages documents. I just dragged and dropped a three-paragraph Pages v13.1 document containing a complicated Pages equation (MathML) and LO handled it correctly. Saving it as a Word .docx also resulted in a document whose appearance in Word 16.75 appears as it does in Pages, or LO.
Excerpt from Kant Lipsum:
When exported to Word .docx, that Jacobian equation is borderless. The Pages document opened in LO is read-only as there is no Pages save format.
The only application in the world that can create a Pages document is Pages, and it cannot resolve its damaged documents. This would be true for Numbers and Keynote applications as well.
No data recovery software can correctly reconstruct these deleted, or damaged documents as Apple has not shared that proprietary information.
Using these Apple applications without a regular Time Machine backup for recovery is not recommended.
Try opening them in MS Office, LibreOffice, FreeOffice or another free office suite. That's a last ditch, likely non productive effort, but I have seen corrupt files at least partially open with an app other than that which it was created in..
Admittedly that was long ago in an OS far far away now.
P. Phillips wrote:
Try using your trusty Time Machine Backup .
One might think if the OP had a Time Machine or other backup they wouldn't be trying to recover the files with EaseUS.
That's not entirely true. I was able to open a .pages file today using LibreOffice. A non-corrupted pages file that is.
As shown here. Libra Office properly displaying a pages file.
FWIW. I believe what EaseUS support was saying is the Pages documents could not be recovered correctly from the SSD. And no, there's no way to repair them.
Indeed. 😎
So based upon the previous posting - If No Time Machine Backup would mean it is gone
P. Phillips wrote:
So based upon the previous posting - If No Time Machine Backup would mean it is gone
Good to see you understood the previous postings. 😎
FWIW, none of the apps mentioned can open a Pages document even if the files weren't corrupted.
I stand corrected.
Repairing damaged pages document
