Pages Auto Save Google Drive Issues

Finish Updating your Monterey to v12.1. Install the most current Google Drive for Mac Desktop, and see if Pages autosave will cope with it. It is a little disconcerting that Google says macOS 10.13 or later in their System Requirements because that leaves a great deal of wiggle room whether it is actually compatible with Monterey.

Google Drive is not a safe place for Pages documents because as zipped documents, Drive will attempt to unzip them when you double-click them. That destroys them. Google Drive won't do this for Microsoft documents (which are also zip containers) because Google programmed it to not damage them.

Apple's autosave probably won't work through multiple network hops to the filesystem on Google servers. I would recommend that you use the local drive, iCloud Drive, or an external USB drive that is not NTFS. I can even save Pages documents (with autosave) to my Synology NAS because the mounted share is AFP over TCP/IP.

At the end of the day, it is Google's responsibility to make the Google Drive Mac application compatible with macOS Monterey. They may or may not have done this, and then the question remains if the Pages or macOS product teams have inadvertently changed things so that now Pages v11.2 no longer works with Google Drive. As a fellow user with no access to the Pages product team, I cannot speculate about that.

Apple codes the Pages application to work with iCloud/iCloud Drive and the Box cloud provider for Pages document collaboration.

Help by upvoting the problem on Google's Support site: https://support.google.com/drive/thread/122350299/keynote-shows-the-document-could-not-be-saved-on-google-drive-2021?hl=en

This is the same as https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253102825 - which was auto-closed.

Hi there, did you manage to figure this out? I have exactly the same problem.

It worked perfectly on my iMac for years - all of my work, organisation and life is essentially on Google Drive, and I love Pages for making nice documents - but upgrading to Silicon has made this impossible.

I don't love the idea of moving everything away from Drive, and I'd rather not have half of my work in one place and the other half somewhere else....