My saved file changes have disappeared

I'm using a Macbook Air and Pages to write. It's running OS 10.9.5. I was writing today, all day. I saved every couple of minutes. I wanted to back up today's changes to my manuscript so I closed the Pages file to copy it to a drive. When I reopened the file, which showed that I had saved it just minutes before, all the changes that I made today were all gone. The whole day's work was not there and the file had reverted to the previous version from the day before.
I've searched every drive and folder that I'm connected to and there's nothing.
Anybody ever have this problem or hear of it? Any ideas about how to get my work back?
The horrible thing is, this same thing happened to my editor three days ago and I didn't believe him. I thought he must have made some mistake.

I had tried that but the changes didn't reappear. After reading suggestions on the forums for the past hour and trying them I found this:
"Pages just crashed on me as I was doing a find and replace. I'd not saved because I'd only done an hour and a half's worth of work this evening but I'd done enough that I didn't want to spend the time rewriting. I did a search for some of the text in my document and Spotlight found it in iCloud of all places!"
I tried searching a specific bit of text that only appeared in what I wrote today and Spotlight brought the document up!

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I've just spent a whole morning working on a file, and NONE of the changes that I've made to the document have been saved by InDesign.
I've saved regularly as I've gone, and I've received no error messages or warnings from InDesign, yet I've reopened the exact same file, and there are no changes to how it was when I left it yesterday. The modification date says 'Yesterday 17:01,' so the file appears not to have been updated by Indesign.
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Kevin,
I can only offer a safer method of saving your files, using a File>Save As instead of a File>Save and using versoining numbers. The advice is solid, and these forums are indexed by search engines, so hopefully my advice will be heeded in years to come,
I know it didn't solve your dilemma, but it wasn't intended to, it was a word of advice, and prior to your latest post, I had no idea how long you were in the industry or what you consider to be safe practices.
It's impossible to know these things unless it's specified before I hit reply...
I'm not an expert on Time Machine, but it's quite possible that your file wasn't saved as the IDLK file prevented the file from being saved - but Time Machine somehow took a saved copy anyway - I'm not sure how that would work though? As that's not my understanding of how Time Machine works.
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As is my understanding.
If you can easily give a step-by-step of your procedures then why didn't you? How can anyone troubleshoot what went wrong if they can't follow what you did step-by-step?
How you the recoup the lost time is up to you - as I've stated before, safer method of saving your files is to use File>Save As and use versioning numbers, rather than using File>Save and only having 1 version of your file on record. If you follow the Save As rule then you can avoid these diasters.
I have absolutely no idea what you mean when you say "I also appreciate your 'faith' in InDesign's infallibility"
Where in the whole reply did I say that InDesign was "infalliabl[ity]e"?
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For example, I use the File>Save As and versioning numbers. I also have everything saved on a server that's backed up every evening. Those files are shadow copied onto a personal drive on the server, and also on a cloud storage system outside the office.
Look - let's not get into who smells like what...
What happened here was an error with saving your file that you didn't notice. How it happened I don't know because you have refused to give the step-by-steps to recreate the issue.
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DWMX not saving file changes

This is weird.
I am changing the onMouseOver to all lower case so it
vaildates with a xhtml
doctype.
So I make the change, save the file, even close DW.
But when I open it up again, the onmouseover is now back to
onMouseOver.
I was able to change all other instances of onMouseOver via a
sitewide ctrl
find and replace and it even shows as if it's replaced this
one file's
instances, but every time I open this file, it's back to the
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It's a similar situation with another file that just will not
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conspiracy! :)
Anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers,
Lossed
__when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks
like a nail __

Glad you solved it. Get that nut fixed, will you? 8)
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> Thanks for getting back to me Murray,
>
> It was the nut behind the wheel that was faulty.
>
> In the code format preferences, I have the default case
for tags and
> attributes set to lowercase, and I have it set to
override the case of
> tags and attributes.
> This I assumed would set all tags and attributes to
lowercase irrespective
> of what the tag library settings were. I mean, that is
what I consider
> 'override' to mean - it overrides the users typeing or
more specific tag
> library settings.
>
> But it doesn't privide that kind of global setting, it
seems.
>
> After individually setting the attributes of each of the
tags in the tag
> library, it does keep the code lowercase as I had
originally intended.
>
> thank goodness for that. I can ill-afford to lose
anymore hair :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
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>> What do your preferences specify about rewriting
code?
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>> "Lossed" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>> This is weird.
>>> I am changing the onMouseOver to all lower case
so it vaildates with a
>>> xhtml doctype.
>>> So I make the change, save the file, even close
DW.
>>> But when I open it up again, the onmouseover is
now back to onMouseOver.
>>>
>>> I was able to change all other instances of
onMouseOver via a sitewide
>>> ctrl find and replace and it even shows as if
it's replaced this one
>>> file's instances, but every time I open this
file, it's back to the
>>> mixed
>>> case rather than lower case.
>>>
>>> It's a similar situation with another file that
just will not accept
>>> onsubmit and keeps reverting back to onSubmit.
It's a conspiracy! :)
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lossed
>>> __when the only tool you have is a hammer,
everything looks like a nail
>>> __
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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