Deleted file before saving it
I accidentally deleted my keynote presentation before I had saved it. It's not in my trash bin...have checked multiple times. Is there another way I can find and recover this?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6
I accidentally deleted my keynote presentation before I had saved it. It's not in my trash bin...have checked multiple times. Is there another way I can find and recover this?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6
If Keynote behaves like Pages when you exit the application without triggering autosave by initially saving the document, then the application cleans up all temporary content associated with that session and there is nothing to back up or recover.
In order for you to delete a Keynote presentation, it would have needed to be manually saved once so that it appears in your filesystem. If that is the case, then it would be on a Time Machine backup, or in your unemptied Trash. Otherwise, it is gone.
If Keynote behaves like Pages when you exit the application without triggering autosave by initially saving the document, then the application cleans up all temporary content associated with that session and there is nothing to back up or recover.
In order for you to delete a Keynote presentation, it would have needed to be manually saved once so that it appears in your filesystem. If that is the case, then it would be on a Time Machine backup, or in your unemptied Trash. Otherwise, it is gone.
Do you have a backup?
Unfortunately not...the last back up was done a couple hours before I got most of the work done.
Haven't closed the application yet, but can't find where any temporary files may have been.
I'm coming to the realization that I probably will have to re-do the entire presentation...sigh....
When I perform a search through the entire /Users/username/Library folder for any filename (*.key), nothing is found while I have a new Keynote document open, but not initially saved.
Deleted file before saving it