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I lost an important document in Pages last night. No sign of it having been typed or saved. Can it be recovered?

How do I recover a document I did in Pages that appears to have not been saved and doesn't show up in time machine

MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Apr 23, 2021 9:16 AM

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Posted on Apr 23, 2021 10:56 AM

Pages does not autosave documents when they are not initially and manually saved once with a proper document name. The document wouldn't show up in Time Machine if it had never been saved. Once you quit Pages without saving a document, the temporary content is removed.


Under the terms of the first paragraph, you have nothing to recover.

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Apr 23, 2021 10:56 AM in response to FB1951baf

Pages does not autosave documents when they are not initially and manually saved once with a proper document name. The document wouldn't show up in Time Machine if it had never been saved. Once you quit Pages without saving a document, the temporary content is removed.


Under the terms of the first paragraph, you have nothing to recover.

I lost an important document in Pages last night. No sign of it having been typed or saved. Can it be recovered?

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