The Pages app on my M1 MacBook Air refuses to save any changes to .pages files, saying "The document “...” could not be saved. The file is locked". This happens with almost all files.
These files are not, and never were, locked.
I have restarted my device twice and reinstalled the application but that didn't work.
What can I do to fix this? Running on macOS Sonoma 14.0.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.0
If your Documents folder is really parked on Google Drive, then undo that so that the Documents folder is again local on your Mac. I would consider Time Machine backups to a local drive far more reliable and available than Google Drive, and in fact, that is what I do.
Google drive is not really compatible with Pages documents because if you double-click one on Google Drive to open it, the Pages document is viewed as a Zip container and Drive attempts to unzip it. This is not the case for MS Office documents where Google has coded Drive to not treat them as Zip containers.
If your Documents folder is really parked on Google Drive, then undo that so that the Documents folder is again local on your Mac. I would consider Time Machine backups to a local drive far more reliable and available than Google Drive, and in fact, that is what I do.
Google drive is not really compatible with Pages documents because if you double-click one on Google Drive to open it, the Pages document is viewed as a Zip container and Drive attempts to unzip it. This is not the case for MS Office documents where Google has coded Drive to not treat them as Zip containers.
It looks like removing Google Drive has worked. Thank you for your help!
In the Finder, click once on that Pages document that Pages believes is locked. Press option+command+i to open a Get Info panel. Does the Lock indicator show unchecked, checked, or checked and grayed out?
Where are you attempting to save this document?
It appears to be 13.2, yes:
The only software that might be interfering is Google Drive – I've set it to back up the entire Documents folder.
The lock indicator is unchecked.
I am trying to save the file to a local folder in Macintosh HD > Users > {user} > Documents.
Is this Pages v13.2? Describe what you did, or any software you ran, before this failure to save with a "locked" document dialog occurred. It simply should not be happening on that Documents folder.
You are welcome.
Pages says files are locked, but they aren't.
