i would like to enable autosave option in pages app (version 13.2) on macbook air (ventura 13.5) so that i don't need to manually save every new version of my document. i can't find how to do this. can someone tell me how?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Autosave in Pages for Mac activates for the current document only after you first manually save a new document Untitled.pages to some arbitrary name (e.g. mydoc.pages). Then, autosave acts on changes you make to the document, and given that criterion, may autosave every 5 - 10 seconds for local Mac storage, and 5 - 15 seconds with a healthy network connection to iCloud Drive. Upon closing the current document, quitting Pages, and at some future timeframe, one reopens the document, autosave remains active on that document.
If one does not manually save a Pages document and quits the application, all content is lost and is non-recoverable because Pages cleans up its temporary files.
I recommend that anyone using Pages also has the macOS built-in feature Time Machine enabled so as to automatically back up their Mac on the hour while the Mac is powered as this prevents the loss of saved Pages documents and provides the means to recover Pages documents that are lost, or mysteriously damaged. Apple's iCloud is not a backup solution.
Once one has edited a Pages document a few times, there is a feature on its File menu that allows you to review prior versions of the document content, and retrieve that if necessary. This is known as Revert To > Browse All Versions…
Autosave in Pages for Mac activates for the current document only after you first manually save a new document Untitled.pages to some arbitrary name (e.g. mydoc.pages). Then, autosave acts on changes you make to the document, and given that criterion, may autosave every 5 - 10 seconds for local Mac storage, and 5 - 15 seconds with a healthy network connection to iCloud Drive. Upon closing the current document, quitting Pages, and at some future timeframe, one reopens the document, autosave remains active on that document.
If one does not manually save a Pages document and quits the application, all content is lost and is non-recoverable because Pages cleans up its temporary files.
I recommend that anyone using Pages also has the macOS built-in feature Time Machine enabled so as to automatically back up their Mac on the hour while the Mac is powered as this prevents the loss of saved Pages documents and provides the means to recover Pages documents that are lost, or mysteriously damaged. Apple's iCloud is not a backup solution.
Once one has edited a Pages document a few times, there is a feature on its File menu that allows you to review prior versions of the document content, and retrieve that if necessary. This is known as Revert To > Browse All Versions…
Pages automatically autosaves. You can check this by going to Pages menu > File > Revert to...
yellow_cherry wrote:
when you refer to autosave every 5-10 seconds, are these saves accessible via "revert to > brows all versions?" because i can only find prior saved document versions that are manually saved or they're simply spaced apart quite a bit (i can only find a version saved 10 minutes ago or one that was five minutes ago and i had to close out of the app and that's when the save occurred, etc.)
The Revert To versions history is based on separate open and close sessions of the same document, not the numerous autosaves that occur during any given editing session.
when you refer to autosave every 5-10 seconds, are these saves accessible via "revert to > brows all versions?" because i can only find prior saved document versions that are manually saved or they're simply spaced apart quite a bit (i can only find a version saved 10 minutes ago or one that was five minutes ago and i had to close out of the app and that's when the save occurred, etc.)
thanks! how often does it autosave while you're using the app? because i dont see any version histories i can revert back to besides the ones i manually save.
how to enable autosave on pages app in macbook air?
