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iCloud deleted my documents. How do I get them back

I synced my documents with icloud last night on my iPad and iPhone and everything was worked flawlessly, but this afternoon I launched pages on my iPad and all my documents appeared for a brief moment then the disappeared. The same with my iPhone. These were important documents that I use for class. I am assuming this is a flaw in iCloud. Please help me get these back! Thanks!

iPad 2, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 5:58 PM

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Oct 13, 2011 6:22 PM in response to ryanfromnesbit

I had the same thing happen to me when I restarted my IPad. Even if I went to the icloud.com web page, Nothing, all my spreadsheets from Numbers have vanished into thin air. I'm just glad I just started using Numbers and didn't have anything non replaceable disappear. I finally saved my spreadsheets with the iTunes option so I could at least have a way to retrieve my spreadsheets. I have put spreadsheets into the "cloud" and restarted my iPad to see if restarting is what caused it, and sure enough, each time spreadsheets are gone. Hope there will be a fix for this soon. I just feel for the folks that have spent weeks or even months on a doc. just to have it "lost" in the clouds.

Oct 15, 2011 1:06 AM in response to ryanfromnesbit

Just a recommendation to future responders.


See if you can put any future files onto an external hard drive and then eject that drive when you are done.

Evidently I answered part of my question about what to do. However, I have started a discussion thread about that very feature. Click my name and all of you should see it (check under recent activity).


Give your thoughts there about my recommendation for modifying this portion of iCloud.

Other than this, I have issues with the iCloud service itself.

Oct 15, 2011 1:25 AM in response to ryanfromnesbit

Just chiming in....


The same occurred to me as well. Everything was working fine with iWork docs in iCloud until this morning when all, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote docs disappeared from iCloud and my iPad.


I reimported my lost docs via iTunes, and an hour later they disappeared again. Reinstalled Numbers on my iPad, but problem still occurred. My documents are primarily time-based log sheets, and restoring from a backup is not an option.


Apple, please let us know what the issue or work around is.

Oct 15, 2011 5:22 AM in response to ryanfromnesbit

Same for me I even up loaded a file to icloud through my MAC and it appeared on my ipad....this morning everything is gone. No file on iCloud and no file on my ipad. When I upgraded my ipad to ios5 I lost all of my doucments in pages and keynote. Not good. I cannot get these back. In the mean time if I create a doucment in iwork on my ipad or mac the way i share it is through itunes which seems to be a work around until icloud gets fixed. very frustrating.

Oct 15, 2011 2:15 PM in response to ryanfromnesbit

Not wanting to do a same here post, but same here. iWork docs successfully synced, viewable on iPad, iPhone and iCloud (via browser). Next day, all iWork docs have disappeared. Also not recoverable from backup as the last computer sync has become the most recent iTunes backup and older backups are not there (I thought iTunes maintained more mobile device backups that *one* backup.) This last backup didn't have iWork docs as they had already been synced to iCloud and then had already disappeared when iPad synced to iTunes :-(



Here's hoping its just a glitch and the docs are still in iCloud, just not visible? Maybe apple will quickly move to offer recover from automated iCloud doc backups?

iCloud deleted my documents. How do I get them back

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