how do i recover unsaved documents...HELP!

I am sorry to say, you will have to start over again.

Adam

I create a backup of every document by laying tracing paper over the screen and tracing off all the text and pictures.

Failing that I go to:

+Menu > Pages > General Preferences > Editing > and tick "Back up previous version when saving"+

I also use programs like *iText Express 3.1* and *iText Pro '08* which have automatic saves in their preferences for my word processing. Pages is really a DTP program with some word processing features.

The same thing has happened to me. It's very upsetting.

I wonder why Mac doesn't offer an auto-save or recovery feature for Pages. MS offers this in Word, so that if you suffer a spontaneous reboot, the next time Word is run, it prompts to open the recovered document.

I have Time Machine and auto iDisk backup, but there is nothing I can do if I've typed 750 words before pressing cmd-s, and my Mac suddenly decides it's going to shut itself down.

There is no built-in Autosave feature in iWork's components but such a tool is available for months.

Go to my idisk:

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

and download:

for iWork:autoSaveiWork.zip

I was able to write the tool but I can't install it for you 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 11 septembre 2008 17:04:17)

I've downloaded the auto save thing and now it's in my downloads folder, can you tell me what I have to do next please?

Cheers Jen

Expand the zip file with a double click.
You will get a folder.
double click on "autosave&zip4iWork.applescript"
read then apply the explanation given at the very beginning.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 12 septembre 2008 11:12:58)