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Keynote powerpoint presentation not present on Dropbox.
Keynote powerpoint prevention was shared with a friend through DropBox. Now when I try to "open recent" in my Keynote app, I get a message: The document “Vietnam Revisited” could not be opened. T...
Well . . . fortunately the friend I shared my powerpoint presentation with still had it on his computer so he shared it back to me. Whew! There was a lot of work that went into making the first powerpoint and was not looking forward to redoing it!
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIThat sounds like you have downloaded the Keynote on to a Windows machine and its trying to open it but not able to. Mac files are viewed as a folder on Windows devices in a lot of cases.
Have you checked that your versions of PowerPoint is capable of opening the Keynote file (i.e. version is up to date etc.)
Thanks Mark. I should have explained . . . I’m on a PowerMac, not a Windows computer.
- Mark
Is Keynote installed?
Have you tried File -> Open of it?
- Mark: Yes . . Keynote is a native app on Macs for PowerPoint presentations. I’ve used it numerous times and the old presentations are still available on DropBox. This one gives me a message about mounting the volume when I try to open recent. I can’t figure out what’s happening.
Well . . . fortunately the friend I shared my powerpoint presentation with still had it on his computer so he shared it back to me. Whew! There was a lot of work that went into making the first powerpoint and was not looking forward to redoing it!
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