Keynote crashed, presentation file disappeared

This has just happened to me with Maverick and the new keynote. Can someone point to the solution?? Presentation is tomorrow morning.

I've been scouring the threads but can't find the answer.

Please help!!!

Are you absolutely sure this is the same problem? The last OS release of Mountain Lion resolved it for me.I haven't seen it in the new Keynote or Marvericks.

Is this a file previously created under Mountain Lion? If you look through the thread, you can see how to open the package contents and change the file type once and back again. I've got my own deadlines tonight or I'd walk you through it right now.

Gary

I have a very large number of quite large (50 to 210 slide) presentations and noticed this morning that without the reported crash of Keynote I had suddenly "lost" all 16 presentations created between June and October this year. Not showing in Time Machine either - The Time Machine backup seems to be a record of changes between the current state of the machine and the historic state, rather than a discrete backup - saving space but explaining why if it "disappears" from the current state it won't show on the historic record either.

After much aingsting, wailing and nashing of teeth I looked under the heading "All My Files" and they were still there even though not showing anywhere else, even in Searchlight. Copied them back into place and now have made three off machine copies of the lot.

Just restarted the machine after the recovery and they are still there. I haven't updated this machine to Mavericks yet - should I?

Moral - Time Machine is great if there are no glitches but this must be some sort of registry problem where the files' exitence is wiped from the registry or altered so that it is an invisible file - clearly (to me) the actual magnetic record is still there just the system pointers to it no longer appear and converting them to invisible files seems the best explanation I can come up with.

It's now January 31. I've seen no solution, and no response from Apple. Had the same problem happen to me. Was working on a KN presentation. Application suddenly froze. Rainbow spiral appeared. Had to force quit (no other option). When I reopened KN, the presentation was gone, as were all the other KN presentations on my hard drive.

I'm beside myself in frustration.

Apple: if you are listening, you should offer a full refund on this product. It is unstable and unfit for professional use.

I had this problem last September...there are a number of solutions listed previously...all is not lost, apprently if you go to all my documents you can find your file. There is a post that explains this solution.

I don't know if it was the updates or what, but I am no longer experiencing this problem. I still make sure that I have make a backup copy checked in preferences. I force save every few minutes so that if the file goes away I still have the backup.

Whatever you do, don't upgrade to the new version.

I have been with Apple since the Apple II; As a company it refuses to admit that somehting doesn't work. This issues effected thousands of users of this program. Never once has Apple ever acknowledged the bug.

The new version is for children to make 5th grade presentations.

Thanks AJ898. I read through lots of solutions to alternative backup approaches. My file crashed before I saved it, and I was shocked to learn that Apple doesn't provide a recovery file like MSFT PPT. The All Files didn't turn up what I was looking for. I really appreciate the patience and attention you've provided in this forum.

Aargh! Spent a week working on a presentation, 60 slides. Have to give it tomorrow. While i was saving the file, it crashed and disappeared, everything's gone, vanished! I'm ****** as **** and freaking out. SO this bug still exisits, and my file is nowhere, not even in Time Machine. The time machine backups show just the title slide. A week's work! Gone ina flash! Apple please fix this!

I'm using Maveriks on a MacBook Pro and everything's up to date.

Now i'll have to stay up all night to recreate my presentation for tomorrow....

Try Timemachine but on the folder that holds the presentation. Worked for me, the backup was there and OK . . .

I have just experienced the same problem.

I have not got a solution, but I found a way to see thumbnails of all slides for easier recovery. Rename the file to a .txt. This turns it into a folder. The subfolder "Data" contains all images from the slides and image files of each slide named "st1-###.jpg", "st2-###.jpg" etc.

Hopes this helps a little.

I had this problem and posted about it extensively under 10.8. When I updated to Mavericks, the problem has not come back at all. These posts have me paranoid that I'm going to have problems again (having a presentation crash in front of a class of 200 and the file delete is not fun...)

I am currently running 10.9.2 and the previous version of Keynote. For those of you still having problems. are you using the latest Keynote?

My ipad loss my presentation from keynote on iOS (ipad air), and i don't know why this could happen, because i have enough memory. Really bad...

Man this just happened to me and it is first time I encountered the problem. After keynote crashed (usually after numerous of windows jumped up saying can't find some files, etc), the file is gone missing!!

I am running 10.9.2 and my kenote version is v5.3 (keynote'09).

Is there a solution out there yet? Many thanks!

I had a problem using Keynote 09 and Mountain Lion. I saved the file I was working on and it said it couldn't save it and up came a window saying there were problems. In fact, none of the images had been saved and when Iooked in the finder the file size of the saved file was no where near as big as it should have been.

I realised that I had a Word file with the same name as the Keynote file (different suffixes, of course). I changed the name of the Word file, restarted the computer and everything was OK.

Scary though!

So we just had this happen to us except it deleted all frames except for the first one. We were lucky enough to be able to revert to an earlier save, under the "Revert" menu. So maybe this is some kind of patch Apple put in?

But agree this is unacceptable for a pro-caliber presentation program. We may just use Google Presentation, which continuously saves and creates different versioned saves.

1st try to find data folder with your presentation on disk.

then rename that folder to .docx

then rename againt to .key