Many apps crashing, not even launching, a flash and gone...

Question

My iPad(1) ran down on battery last night and I started charging it again this morning for a short spell.  Got it up to about 8% and then when I went to use it, launching Pages, the app seemed to start for a split second, almost taking over the screen as it does and then it flashed goes back to the home screen.  That was happening to all apps, except for the native iPad apps that came with the device.  I haven't tried every single app, but pretty much every app that's not native crashes.  Whenever I attempt to launch an app, its icon does appear in the taskbar at the bottom if I double click the home button. 
I stopped using the device and waited until I could fully charge it.  I gave it about 50% and then checked just to see, but it did the same thing.  Then i shut it down and charged it all the way up to 100%.  After all that, nothing changed.  When I connect to my Mac, I can see the device and most of its contents.  I can't see all of my Pages and Keynote docs, but I can see the music and what looks like all Goodreader files. 
Uh...help??
lee

Answer 1

Lee
If itunes can't see the docs you want and Goodreader doesn't have them either, I think you are out of luck, but...
Go to itunes on the computer, select Edit, Preferences, Devices tab. You will see a list of all your backups. Look at the dates and Device in this list and see if any of the backups will get you the documents you want.
If you think they are in a backup listed, you can restore that backup to your ipad and harvest them.
(In a gentle tone...)
Also, on your calendar app on your computer and ipad, add a scheduled sync, reoccuring, so losing files doesn't happen again.
Good luck !!