jh528

Q: Pages Documents disappeared after dragging them to an external harddrive

Hey,

 

I recently just dragged a folder of work with a 3 important pages document from my desktop to an external hardrive icon also on the desktop. The little green plus icon hovered above and everything so I dropped them into the harddrive. After they finished copying I looked onto the hard drive icon to find the work folder there, but not the pages documents. I then looked back on my desktop to the original folder and they were not there either. I have already checked my icloud drive, all files, downloads and documents plus the recent documents in the actual pages app.

 

Please help I am so confused!!!

 

Josh

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)

Posted on Sep 7, 2016 5:12 AM

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  • by PeterBreis0807,

    PeterBreis0807 PeterBreis0807 Sep 7, 2016 9:34 AM in response to jh528
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    Sep 7, 2016 9:34 AM in response to jh528

    Check your Drives are working normally by verifying it in Disk Utility.

     

    Also search for your files using first SpotLight and if that doesn't work, try EasyFind [free].

     

    Sounds like the files were not in your Desktop folder to start with. Can you think where else you might of saved them to?

     

    See if you can find them by opening Pages > Menu > Files > Open Recent.

     

    Peter