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iwork lost file, auto save?

i am using the trial version of iwork and my battery died before i could save. when i turned it back on, i had to open iworks again and my paper was nowhere to be found. i've looked everywhere and i can't find it. does iwork have auto save? if so, since i'm using the trial version, will it work with my macbook? please help, my paper is due tomorrow and it took me 5 hours to complete. thanks for any help you can provide.

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Feb 18, 2008 11:44 PM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2008 5:51 AM

murry,

Welcome to Apple discussions.

I could devote a thousand words to the wisdom of saving often and backing up, but that's probably not what you want to hear right now.

I'm afraid I don't have any good news for you. There is no auto-save in Pages. If you lose power, you will only have your document up to the most recent save.

-Dennis
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Feb 19, 2008 5:51 AM in response to murry2nd

murry,

Welcome to Apple discussions.

I could devote a thousand words to the wisdom of saving often and backing up, but that's probably not what you want to hear right now.

I'm afraid I don't have any good news for you. There is no auto-save in Pages. If you lose power, you will only have your document up to the most recent save.

-Dennis

Feb 19, 2008 9:50 AM in response to DennisG

Hello Dennis

You are right when saying that there is no auto-save tool in Pages.

In fact there is no such "factory-installed" tool
BUT
you may install one for free.

Enter my idisk:

<http://idisk.mac.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>

download:
autoSave_iWork.zip

expand it
read the given explanations and apply them.
Then, every ten minutes your iWork's in use document would be saved automatically.

It's a kind of insurance whose cost is not too high. Isn't it?

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 19 février 2008 18:50:51)

Feb 24, 2008 3:24 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Hi Yvan,

Thanks for sharing this invaluable autosave applescript.

I've followed instructions, but I don't get an option to "check stay in background" when saving the script as an application! (I'm using Script Editor 2.1.1)!
Found nothing in Help. Am I missing something?

As I have it, the autosave.app works but the application is always open in my dock, a situation the "stay in backgroud" option I guess is designed to avoid.

Thanks for your help.

btw, I've also checked "stay open" when saving which I guess is also necessary.

Feb 25, 2008 11:51 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Aucune probleme
No problemo

I'd misunderstood the meaning of "Stay in background".

I figure there is probably a hack in terminal I could do to stop the app showing up in the dock, but actually it's proved to suit me v well to have it there: I don't list it as a login item (to save unnecessary background processing if I am not using Pages), and simply open it when I need it.

An option would be to make a "Pages launcher" script that will launch both Pages and autosave4iwork. Swap the script app icon for the Pages icon, and it can live in the dock as faux Pages!!

Off topic, but I've also downloaded your batch_AW6WP2Pages.app which is very very handy!

Regards,

Feb 25, 2008 11:57 AM in response to dewshi

Hello

All the files in my iDisk are available for all of you.

It would be foolish to keep then for myself when they may help other users.

I must add that some of them where written to respond to questions asked on these forums 😉

The idle process doesn't eat many processor cycles. You may put it in the background at startup, you will not notice it.
It add AutoSave to Keynote and Numbers too.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 25 février 2008 20:53:53)

Mar 3, 2008 3:44 PM in response to WWJD

I would call it just crappy programming. What kind of company would write a piece of software without an auto-save or auto-backup feature? Haven't seen something like that in a LONG time. Lost 3 hours of work today because of it. When you're really into writing your mind enters a state of flow, so it's very easy to forget saving the document. I'm furious, to be honest.

Mar 3, 2008 4:14 PM in response to fnauta

fnauta,

I guess if I lost three hours of work, I'd be ticked off, too. But at myself. I'm a novelist, and I understand what you mean by flow. But the current is never so strong that I'm not mindful of the consequences of losing my data. It's part of my process to just hit cmd-S after every paragraph. It's part of my flow.

-Dennis

Mar 3, 2008 6:01 PM in response to fnauta

I can understand your frustration but if the data is worth that much, periodically save based on how much information you'd like to loose. I'd much rather have full data merge from any datasource than an autosave function but give Apple "Pages Feedback" on your concern.

Regards,

Mar 3, 2008 6:03 PM in response to fnauta

When I had my first computer (an Amstrad CPM), I spent several hours typing in a mailing list. It occurred to me that it might be a good idea to save my work before continuing. (Which I did.) I had typed no more than 5 additional names when a tree branch fell across the power line, shutting me down.

Some of us learn. Some of us complain.

Walt

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