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pksurfs Author

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NUMBERS didn't save my work - why?

Hi, I updated a Numbers spreadsheet yesterday and hit save before closing it (although I'm pretty sure this step isn't necessary) and when I returned to the spreadsheet 30 minutes later the changes had disappeared. Luckily I hadn't made too many changes on this occasion, but this could be devastating and now I don't trust NUMBERS. Has anyone else had this problem?

Maybe it was offline and couldn't save to iCloud? Why has this happened & how can I recover my changes (if possible)?

I'm using an iMac (late 2015) running Big Sur 11.7 and saving Numbers to iCloud. I have logged in to iCloud and the spreadsheet is also lacking the changes there.

Please help.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Jan 10, 2023 3:51 AM

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pksurfs Author

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Posted on Jan 10, 2023 4:50 AM

Using NUMBERS v12.1 by the way. Also I went into Time Machine and there is a whole period from 30th November to 8th Jan where Numbers didn't save any new versions, even though I made changes during that time. It is worse than I thought! What it saved since 8th Jan is the same as 30th November, so I've lost all my changes.

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