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iCloud deleted my keynote files

So iCloud synced my Keynote documents to my iPad perfectly yesterday. I opened Keynote this morning to find that they had all disappeared. WHAT GIVES????


While I *hope* that these files were backed up when I updated to iOS 5, their disappearance really dents my confidence in the viability of iCloud. Apple tech, please advise!

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 3:11 AM

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Nov 12, 2013 11:56 AM in response to hermeneut

Just happened to me ! Two lectures that I gave (30h work/each) just diseappeared from my keynote IN FRONT OF MY EYES. I saw them when I opened with my Ipad. Then the screen refreshed. And they were not there after 5 sec. I worked on them on my computer 5 minutes ago. I thought it was safer to save them on ICloud that on my Dropbox. BIG MISTAKE.


*** Apple ??

Mar 29, 2014 9:48 AM in response to hermeneut

Inexplicably, all of my iWork documents in iCloud were deleted today, EXCEPT for one Pages document. No one touches any of my Apple devices except me and they're all password protected. I didn't delete anything from any device. Fortunately, I have two versions of backup, one in Time Machine and another in CrashPlan, so I was able to recover everything. But this has shaken my confidence in iCloud. The iWork apps all sync beautifully with one another and the implementation is far more elegant than anything else I've seen. But the one fundamental attribute of a cloud-based system is that data should be secure. And clearly that's not the case here.


I'll continue to stick with the iWork apps given that I have good backup solutions. But, if this happens again, I'm going to try something else.

Jul 30, 2014 8:10 PM in response to iamalexis

I stored all my keynotes of work in iCloud, but after I reinstalled the Mavericks, logged in iCloud, found the all keynotes were deleted, not in iCloud anymore.

I believed in Apple, never thought iCloud would delete all my files😠! WHO else can tell me how to get my files back? It's really heartbreaking.

iCloud deleted my keynote files

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