Autosave documents in pages

After using Pages for about a year, and generally liking it, I lost a day's worth of work when my battery died. I opened Pages and searched all the menus for the Auto Restore function before it dawned on me that Pages cannot automatically save your document for you while you're editing it. I just assumed that such a basic function was provided in all modern text editing software. Incredible. Now I guess I'll have to go back to MS Word. Why should I have to remember to periodically manually save my doc, isn't the software supposed to do that for me?

It seems that you didn't understand.
I receive in my mailbox documents sent by users asking me to try to recover the embedded content.
In my own use I never got a corrupted document but, contrarily to what you often wrote, when I receive a corrupted file, I don't state: the user made something wrong.
I assume that something failed.
I know a way to get documents without Index.xml file. But when I receive such ones, I always ask the owner if the doc was stored on a server where it may be used by several machines. Every time the response is: no, it was on a single user system.
Most often, a document corrupted by a power shortage is not readable with current tools like TextEdit or TextWrangler. The operating system is fooled by the wrong descriptor available in its HD's table of contents.
With iWork, I never got such files.
The corrupted files, at least those which I received, are always readable with standard tools, at least with Hexadecimal editors.
When the Index.xml file is available, I may decipher it and rebuild the entire document but Pages is unable to do the same, simply because, somewhere among the thousands of instructions, there is one which it is unable to decipher.
My guess is that there is a bug pushing the code to write a wrong instruction.
I would not be surprised if it is linked to the most common oddity: an instruction which doesn't manipulate correctly a carry when the treated data cross a page boundary.
I guess that because sometimes I was said that the document was killed after the addition (or the removal) of a single character.
The number of corrupted files received exploded after the introduction of iWork '09. And most often these corrupted documents are flatfiles. Maybe there is a bug in the code compacting the package built at first.
This is why I don't use flatfiles.
As I already explained, iWork builds a package then,
(1) if the doc must remain a package, the index.xml file is packed (gzipped) as Index.xml.gz
(2) if the doc must be a flatFile, the package (with its non packed index) is packed with a tool which is not one of those which I am aware of. Zip, Gzip, Ditto are unable to pack in a format accepted by iWork.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) dimanche 23 août 2009 14:57:40

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