I'm working in pages and it won't let me save my document. A popup appears saying document could not be autosaved?- Why

OddMama, I've started having the same issue on two different Macs running various pieces of software, with no unsaved files on them, and only one file open at a time. Apps include Keynote and Multimarkdown Composer. It happens every few minutes. I'm running High Sierra. This problem has only started occurring a few days ago. Disk Utility tells me my drives are fine.

So, you are not the only one having this issue, it has nothing obvious to do with unsaved files or with how many unsaved files you have open, Mac doesn't need a file name to autosave a file, my Internet connection is constant and 1gbps, and I don't know why PeterBreis seems so judgmental about how you work.

PS: I can't imagine why it matters if you're an American.

If you get an answer somewhere, I hope you'll post it because it's an annoying problem.

Please leave this discussion thread. You are not at all helpful. Those of us experiencing this issue would prefer to continue exploring a solution without personal attacks and diatribes about the American educational system. Flawed it may be, but that has nothing to do with OddMama's problem or a solution.

Have you tried saving the file with a real name rather than leaving it as "Untitled 18"? How is your Mac supposed to know where you want to save this unnamed document? It's a good general rule to always save a new document with a name in a location of your choosing before you even enter a single letter.

Let's stick to the issue. Why have you not saved the last 18 documents?

You can not expect to escape ultimate disaster if you do not look after your own work.

The Mac may not be able to save your files for a number of reasons, one highly probably one being the Internet may not be available, or the device you were originally working to at some time is not available any more.

Have you tried to save your document (with a name so you can find it later) to your hard drive?

Peter

We can not tell because we can not see what you are looking at and only have your description of what you are doing and the circumstances in which you are doing that.

As I said if it has been saved to an offsite location, possibly in the Cloud or on a server, and it can not reach that file or the location where it is trying to save, it may report that the file can not be saved.

As to how you work. If you have a group of children and commonly write reports for them, the identifiers of those files are the Children's names, possibly subjects or projects and the date. Something which you can easily set up as a set and modify.

Having 18 "Untitled" documents open is certainly likely to confuse your computer if not you.

If you have done this previously and it is now problematic you need to look at what is different from before than now.

Have you just done this for the first time in Pages? The first time in this version of Pages? The first time in a particular set-up e.g. where you are saving to the Cloud, or to a server, or a USB flash drive, or whatever?

Whilst your task and the way you do it may not have changed if you changed your tools the results can change.

Peter

PS Are you American?

The Mac needs to have you save it first time with a name even if that is "Untitled" which is obviously a bad idea if you want to ever find your work.

The fact there were a lot of Untitled files may have been the problem. They couldn't be saved on top of each other wherever they were being "saved" to. Who knows? The O.P. objected to telling us.

I asked if she was American because we get quite a few U.S. teachers here with the same attitude that indignance is a substitute for communication. Let alone commonsense. Possibly explains a lot about education outcomes in the States. There is an almost agressive pride in not knowing, and an attitude of why should I?

I persisted despite the O.P. really was not going to bother giving us the full details in case that let us get to the bottom of the issue.

Peter

Yes it does, because she still has not done the obvious and described what exactly she is using or doing. We can not see poster’s screens.

We work hard at trying to reproduce work to isolate problems but can not do it without at least some cooperation from posters.

Warning Users to save their work with locatable names should be unnecessary.

All we have got thus far is that the O.P. has been doing this for “20 years”. Irrelevant information that we hear over and over again, and which is not helpful. Pages has not existed for 20 years, especially whatever version she is talking about. She has not told us when exactly she changed whatever it is she changed, nor where she is saving to. Something that everybody else who has piled onto this has also failed to do. This is not the Psychics Hotline.

i have tried to repeat, as far as I can from the limited information, having 18 untitled documents open in Pages 7 on macOS Sierra and do not get the warning, so obviously there is something else out of all the details that we have not been told that is causing the issue. The O.P.s description makes no sense if the file has never been saved, so something is not what was as stated.

We help a lot of people over many years, despite many of those people won’t help themselves, or us.

We are volunteers, nothing stopping you volunteering and helping. If you choose to do so, you may suddenly discover vague and uncooperative questions are not helpful.

Peter

I do Gordon.

I have 2 PCs and when I go on the forums to resolve issues, I end up doing what I do here, end up giving support to the people who think they know better.

Stupid is the New Black, but talking about it is also the New Taboo. 😟

Peter

I don't get any "Autosave" messages at all with Pages version 7.0 (5576) on High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E199).

Just a thought - are you doing this on-line in iCloud, or are these files on a shared server of any sort?

That you have 18 unnamed documents says a lot about your work.

Peter

If you think this is bad, you ought to see some of the posts on the Microsoft forums....😀