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Templates.

Avatar Drew McFarlane
In Pages 8.1 on a 2011 MacBook Air (High Sierra 10.13.6) I have a number of “My Templates” stored in Templates .

Without having to manually re-type them, Is there a quick way of copying these to Pages on my up to date 2019 MacBook Pro?

Thank You.

Re: Templates.

Avatar Eleanor Spenceley
You should be able to find them here....

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Application Support/User Templates

Assuming an old version of pages didn't put them elsewhere!

Re: Templates.

Avatar Drew McFarlane
Having tried on both machines, this morning I finally managed to work my way through the above Eleanor, unfortunately "User Templates" was missing.

Back to square one and lots of typing.

Thank You.

Re: Templates.

Avatar Eleanor Spenceley
You could try this, go on your old 2011 MBA.

1. . Open the Terminal App (in Utilities)
2. Type: find . -name "*.template" -print

This should find and print all the template files. Now, let's assume Pages has been using a different file extension.

1. Open Pages, go to your 'My Templates area in the Templates viewer.
2. Copy a filename of one of your templates. Let's assume one is called 'mytemplate'
3. Open the Terminal App (in Utilities)
4. Type: find . -name "mytemplate.*" -print
(Replace mytemplate with your own template name.

These should find your template files on your old Mac. Be careful with spaces in file names and directories... Failing that, sounds like a visit to a group meeting where you can get some help. :-)

Note, I have checked where Pages v5.8 places it's template files and they are in the same place as later versions... so where they are on yours is puzzling.

Re: Templates.

Avatar Brian Tapper
Hi Drew, I use Airdrop to move files to and from iPad to iPad.
 
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