Is there any way to recover files lost from restarting my Mac?

I had Garage Band and Pages documents open, and all of a sudden an opaque grey screen slid down over the screen and it asked me to restart the computer by holding down the power button. I did that because it wouldn't let me do anything else, and when I turned it back on, my Pages document and my Garage Band song were gone. Is there anything on Mac that does what PCs do, when it shuts down unexpectedly it saves your files? It would be really helpful to recover those documents!!

Hi Vicky, sorry to hear, where these new/unsaved docs, or older modified ones?
It's not likely, but if the latter...
It may be possible to recover some erased ones, but you must quit using the Computer immediately, because the OS will think it can write to those freed blocks on the disk.
Either boot this one in Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
And recovering from another Mac, or booting this Mac from another HDD, then using Data Rescue...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
rccharles on file recovery...
"Stellar Phoenix Macintosh - Mac data recovery software, recovers data from damaged, deleted, or corrupted volumes and even from initialized disks."
They have a trial version, so I guess you can see if your data can be recovered...
http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm
FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have:
    * been accidentally deleted.
    * become unreadable due to media faults.
    * been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted.
http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id= 1
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11073082#11073082

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