I need to retrieve a lost Pages Document in iCloud

Yesterday I was lokking for a password in my Pages "passwords" document.
Suddenly the document disappeared.
I can't find it; it is completely lost.
I don't have a back-up.
Looking for information, it looks as if nobody ever had this problem.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
If you don't have it and you don't have a back up, there isn't a lot you can do unfortunately. However you might look at iCloud.com on a computer as a last check.

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When I try to open a Pages document from iCloud, created on my iPad, I get message stating I need a newer version of Pages. When I go to app store all I get is "installed" when looking at pages app. my Macbook pro is up to date with all updates.

When I try to open a Pages document from iCloud, created on my iPad, I get message stating I need a newer version of Pages. When I go to app store all I get is "installed" when looking at pages app. my Macbook pro is up to date with all updates. Any ideas?

You have 2 versions of Pages on your Mac.
Pages 5 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5/5.01 can not open Pages 5.1 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.1 sometimes can not open its own files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Anything that is saved to iCloud is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has not only managed to confuse all its users, but also itself.
Note: Apple has removed over 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Archive/trash Pages 5, after exporting all Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
Peter

I have read the manual, but as I can see there is nowhere where it tells me how to put my Pages document in iCloud storage, could someone tell me?iDocbackup

I have read the manual, but as I can see there is nowhere where it tells me how to put my Pages document in iCloud storage, could someone tell me?

Here is some information on how to get a document from your iDevice to iCloud (which means you need to have the iOS version of Pages installed on your iPad or iPhone:
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/documents/
And here is a slew of other help articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.psp.more&locale=e n_US&q=Documents%20in%20the%20Cloud
And, icloud is not really "storage" - it is meant to "push" a document you create on one iDevice to another.
FWIW, I assume you are on Lion? Please change your profile - it still shows 10.5.8...

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Hi crward.
The application I was using is Pages for OS X, not the beta iCloud app. Apple did recover most of the lost data but not all--there remains a discrepancy of about (33) thirty-three documents. (see below)
As to your recommendation... As for Google, I've had a Gmail/Google Apps .EDU account since my college days, all the data in Google Docs/Drive hasn't been touched since I left it so that's a good sign. In contrast, considering this is the second time I've suffered a data loss with iCloud (Sep. 2013, when iOS 7 was released), I am ready to pull the plug and move on to another service like Google or Microsoft. My wife has an Office 365 subscription and uses OneDrive (not Google) a lot, I may take her up on it--they get 1TB of storage! (I'd be lucky to use more than a GB or two.) Most, if not all, of my colleagues use Word/Office so I will likely be limping back to using Word again. I used Pages all through graduate school and beyond, no issues with the app itself; however, since Pages saves documents by default to iCloud, I had little reason to think it would less-safe on iCloud than on my own computer (HDDs crash all the time).
Moving forward, I will be advising my friends, family, and colleagues to avoid iCloud altogether.
This is what Apple recovered.... Approx. 173 documents, approximately 84% of what there originally was. (I've already moved them to Google Drive for safe keeping)
This is what was originally in there... 205 documents.

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Apple is unlikely to read your post here as this is a user to user support forum. You can contact Apple support here: Contact Apple for support and service.
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Yes it is possible -- but I don't have much help for why it isn't working for you. I just tried saving 2 documents from Pages version 5.5.1 on my Mac and was able to open the document from Pages on my iPhone. The only things I can think of is to insure both are using the same Apple ID and that when you save on the Mac your save dialog is set to save to Pages - iCloud or to iCloud Drive.

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My saved document is lost.
I've saved .pages document to the desktop a couple of times, but when I tried to save it for the last time, I got "document could not be reverted" and my document was just gone. Now I can't find it in Pages' "recent files", or in Spotlight, or even in iCloud. There's no any version of this file. This is ridiculous, I just can't believe it. Can I get my document back?
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Your OS is less relevant than your version of Pages.
Where were you saving it to? iCloud? Anywhere else?
Are you saying it disappeared on screen, it closed without saving?
Peter

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I lost a document that was never saved. Is there any way to get it back?
I'm using my iMac (Mac OS X Version 10.6.8) and Pages (Version 4.1 (923))

You are not even covered with Lion if you have never saved.
That's the equivalent of having a brilliant idea but never putting it down on paper. Except your brain, unlike the computer, doesn't necessarily forget if you go on to doing something different.
Peter

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I had to get a new Ipad2 since my screen broke. The notes documents were retrieved after I restored my Ipad from a backup but the Pages documents are gone. Any way to retrieve them from the iCloud or are they gone forever?

I appologize for being imprecise.
I opened Pages and selected iCloud in the open dialog box.
All of my documents are visible.
I selected a document to be opened.
A message appears "<Document>" couldn't be opened.
This is true for almost all of my documents.
I attempted to open the document on my iPad and got the same error.
I logged into www.icloud.com. I went to iWork and saw my documents.
I selected one for download and got three choices. PDF, Pages and Word.
None of them work. It says preparing to download for a bit and then it fails.

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I recently had to factory reset my iPad2 after a corrupted Apple software update. Fortunately almost everything was recovered via iTunes and iCloud backups. However, I am unable to access a very important Pages document (Pages docs were recovered from iCloud after the reset). It shows in pages but is misted out a little and it won't let me open it. When I look into iCloud I can see that the document is there and has content as the file size is 11mb but I am still unable to open it. It is many, many hours of work and I am desperate to retrieve the file if I can.
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Thank you for the reply Alfred.
The document wouldn't open immediately after the iCloud recovery in the previous version of Pages and it still won't open in the most up to date version. I have tried accessing iWork via my PC (sorry all, planning a Mac!) but still cannot get into the app.
In the previous version of Pages I couldn't even select the document for deletion or sharing. Is there any way I can try to recover the document again from iCloud? I guess that if I do delete the corrupted file from Pages, I cannot then try to recover it from iCloud?
Thanks again Alfred.

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Trying opening Pages (for example) on your iPad, tap "+" then tap "iCloud". You should then be able to tap the folder you want, and the document inside it.

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