Lack of auto-save on Pages

Ever since Lion, OS X 10.7. was introduced last year, Pages has taken advantage of the autosave function built into Lion as long as you have Pages 4.1. So it would appear that you don't have at least OS X 10.7 & at least Pages '09 v4.1.

Even then, you must manually save any document at least once for autosave to "know" where to save it & with what name.

We are all end-users here, too, & yelling at us won't do anything except make people avoid your posts.

If you are on an older OSX, install ForeverSave Lite (free) which, like the later versions of OSX, gives universal Auto Save.

Unlike on Windows.

Peter

btw What suddenly brings this up at such a late date?

You are right the Pages doesn't have Auto save and never will BUT it you have the MacOs Lion or Mountain Lion and the right version of Pages '09 the system will auto save Pages documents!! For more information read up on the how the auto save in these systems works.

Bubbagirl, you never said in your initial post which MacOs you have. It would have helped if you told us your real problem but we can try to help you from here. I can help you with Pages 2.0.2 but I think you can still use it.

Sometimes Pages gets a corrupt plist file. To diagnose if that is the case one can try out Pages in another user account on the computer but you can also just delete the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist which you find in Users / "your name" / Library / Preferences. You best have quitted Pages before you do it.

Also get the ForEver Save Lite. Just remember that you have to save the document once before it works.

Not here there isn't. 🙂

Just options to do something about your problems.

Peter

btw Apple does not haunt these forums, pointless appealing to them.

If you were to give details about your OS & version of Pages, answers would be more specific. I tried (& failed, it seems) to tell you that autosave does exist, but you have to have fairly current versions of both the Mac OS & Pages. iWork '06 is ancient in terms of software, it came out in January, 2006.

We are all just other users here, so you were yelling at us. If you want Apple to "hear" you, leave feedback through the proper channels & be polite (which you were not).

Peggy wrote:

We are all just other users here, so you were yelling at us. If you want Apple to "hear" you, leave feedback through the proper channels & be polite (which you were not).

"Apple, figure it out!" is clearly frustration directed towards Apple, and taking it personally seems highly illogical.

Bubbagirl40: I was quite frustrated with the bugs that initially plagued OS X Lion, but most if not all have been resolved. I would recommend thinking about the possibility of upgrading. It is certainly worth it. I would hold off still on Mountain Lion, though. Upgrading this early after a new OS release can be a bothersome mistake.

Live long and prosper.

Bubbagirl, I am glad that you now use ForEverSave but also get the habit to save often by using Cmd + S. And do it often.

bubbagirl, I just wanted to check that you read that there is a ForEverSave Lite version which is free. Maybe it is good enough and you don't have to by the full version.