I had typed a few pharagraphs and left Pages open, the computer was then turned off. Is there anyway to retrieve an unsaved document, in microsoft before closing it prompts you to save. I am suprised Mac's do not!!
Hi abbyjoyous,
Yes auto save isn't yet a feature of Pages, I too hope they'll include it in the next update.
Knowing it isn't there, at least once every five minutes I hit the save button; how difficult is that? It's now my responsibility to do that; I don't pass the onus to someone else.
By the way, though MS Word has that feature it doesn't always work as one thinks it should. Too many times we couldn't recover files for folks, auto save didn't save them. They then would say "But Word has Auto Save"; sorry it didn't work this time, oh-well. Suggestion, check the MS Word forum for Auto Save.
Yes I know the above isn't of any help to you. In all do respect, your last paragraph was a bit harsh, the same as saying I quit eating because my previous meal was terrible.
To reiterate what I said above, it's my hope Pages next update will have auto save, it's needed. Allow me to suggest sending Apple feed back with your concerns. Click Pages > Provide Pages Feedback. Doing it that way rather than here will get directly to the Pages team.
The more feedback the more likely we'll see improvements we desire. I've sent in many.
Getting engrossed in my work, I neglected to hit cmd-s for nearly an hour in Pages. Suddenly, as I was copying a small bit of text to the clipboard, Pages crashed. I restarted the computer (MacBook Pro), launched Pages, opened the file, and found the last hour's work gone.
MS Word (& other programs) auto-open or at least let you know where temporary files were stored. What's the situation with Pages?
I hope the next upgrade has an Auto-Save preference!
This script will help you. It will only run if Pages is open, which means that you can have this script running all the time (rather than loading it when pages is open, or having it open Pages for you). Just add it to your Login Items. (Modified from another script I found on these forums.)
property minutesBetweenSaves : 10
on idle
tell application "Finder" to set pagesRunning to (name of processes) contains "Pages"
if pagesRunning = true then
tell application "Pages"
repeat with aDoc in every document
if path of aDoc exists then
save aDoc
end if
end repeat
end tell
end if
return minutesBetweenSaves * 60
end idle
Are you absolutely sure you WANT an auto-save option?
Say, you work in an office with intranet or similar LAN, you have an open document, and - just for fun - you ad a swear word or a naughty image off the internet, suppose somewhere inside your bosses draft speech or presentation. You would of course delete it from the document before it's finished, but - horror! - it's autosaved and the boss sees it!
