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I don't see "Delete" among the options under "File" in Pages. Often I decide I want to scrap a sketch of something I'm trying to write, but I don't see how to simply delete it. The only way I've occasionally done it is to hunt down the same file through "Finder". There must be a simpler way.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
jojojoe Said:
"Thanks again, TheLittles. [...]Do you think Apple engineers are ignorant of how people use their product or are they indifferent? Or are they just human and trying their best?"
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jojojoe Said:
"Deleting a file in Pages on MacBook Air: I don't see 'Delete' among the options under 'File' in Pages. Often I decide I want to scrap a sketch of something I'm trying to write, but I don't see how to simply delete it. The only way I've occasionally done it is to hunt down the same file through 'Finder"' There must be a simpler way."
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Report Back if this Works: Delete a Pages Document on Mac - Apple Support
Thanks again, TheLittles. Well, what I'd like is to be able to delete when I'm inside a Pages document. Unfortunately, when I file the document it is not immediately clear where it has gone, so deleting it requires hunting for it. As for the link you gave me, I find that dragging the file to Trash does not delete it! (This surprised even pessimistic me.). The Control Delete approach does work once I've located the document. Do you think Apple engineers are ignorant of how people use their product or are they indifferent? Or are they just human and trying their best?
The ability to delete a Pages document does not exist in the Pages application. That is the Finder's business. Dragging a file to the Trash and not emptying the Trash does not delete the file as it hangs around in the Trash until it is manually emptied, or you have configured Finder to empty the Trash every 30 days.
If you have just entered content in Pages that you want to undo, then simply press ⌘Z one or more times until what you have entered is removed. Or you can simply select that Page's content and press the delete key.
Pages will save all documents in the same last saved folder location until you change that location. If your Spotlight Category Results include Documents, then it will index all Pages document locations, and you can locate these documents with the following choices of Spotlight syntax options:
kind:pages
kind:pages created:>07/01/2024
kind:pages modified:06/01/2024-07/01/2024 font:helvetica-bold tag:red
thank you, Viking. What you say is what I've experienced. Yes, I can simply delete the text in a Pages document, but the file remains. Once again, I have the impression that Apple designs these things without any consultation with people who use them. A writer who starts a page on physical paper and decides what he's written is no good can just crumple up the sheet and toss it away. It should be similarly easy in Pages, but it isn't. And this, let us remember, is not a new application in a trial stage; it is something that Apple has offered for many years.
Try and find any current application, whether written by Apple or a third-party that offers to delete the current file from within the application that has it open. You won't find any.
UNIX operating systems (e.g. macOS) have a feature known as a file in use flag that prevents any file that is open from being deleted until what has it open has released it (e.g. the application has formally closed it, or quit).
I'll accept what you say about other systems, Viking, but when I write an email and want to discard it I don't have to close it and then go hunting for its title. It seems to me an obvious flaw in the design.
You're telling me, TheLittles, that the Apple people have so little curiosity about how their products are working that they can't be bothered to read a public forum like this one? I think you've confirmed my bad impression.
jojojoe Said:
"I think you've confirmed my bad impression."
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Deleting a file in Pages on MacBook Air