I began a new pages document and finished my work without saving it. I'm not sure what happened but I'm pretty sure I minimized the document without saving or titling it at ll and now it is gone. I've tried reopening pages and it hasn't shown up. I am running on mac version 10.12.2 and version 6.0.5 of pages. I would really appreciate the help! Thank you.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), iOS 10.0.2, Bought new from Apple recently
Found this on a google search so no guarantee it works:
Switch to the Finder application and choose "Find" from the File menu. Click on "This Mac" in the Search bar, then select "Kind" is "Document." Choose "As list" from the View menu. Then choose "Arrange by last modified" from the View menu. This will show you all of the documents that have been saved to your hard drive in newest-to-oldest order. Scroll down in the window and review these file names to see if there are any documents with names including "temporary" or "untitled," and with kinds that are word processing documents or plain text files. There will be many documents here, so use the date and time on each file to help narrow your search.
Drag these documents to the Pages icon in your Dock. They will open in Pages if they are saved word processing documents, and you may be able to retrieve the text of your lost document from these files. If a file cannot be opened in Pages, try dragging it to the TextEdit icon in your Dock instead.
Peter
Found this on a google search so no guarantee it works:
Switch to the Finder application and choose "Find" from the File menu. Click on "This Mac" in the Search bar, then select "Kind" is "Document." Choose "As list" from the View menu. Then choose "Arrange by last modified" from the View menu. This will show you all of the documents that have been saved to your hard drive in newest-to-oldest order. Scroll down in the window and review these file names to see if there are any documents with names including "temporary" or "untitled," and with kinds that are word processing documents or plain text files. There will be many documents here, so use the date and time on each file to help narrow your search.
Drag these documents to the Pages icon in your Dock. They will open in Pages if they are saved word processing documents, and you may be able to retrieve the text of your lost document from these files. If a file cannot be opened in Pages, try dragging it to the TextEdit icon in your Dock instead.
Peter
To avoid this experience in the future, as soon as you choose new document, save the empty document to a meaningful name (not Untitled.pages) where you are sure to find it. Once you do this, Pages will autosave your document about every 10 - 15 seconds when new content is added.
kind:Pages would return only Pages documents. More efficient.
I found the document. Thank you so much!
-Cat
How to recover unsaved pages doc?
