Recover Non Saved Pages Files after Crash?

Just went through the horrendous experience of loosing many hours of work in Pages when my machine unexpectedly crashed. No I did not save. I am stupid, but how hard is it to design a program to auto save and recover after crash? Microsoft seems to have figured that out.
I have downloaded a 3rd party program to do it, but it is the end of using Pages for me. I really enjoyed the layout capabilities, but the omission of a file recovery feature moves this down to a 3rd tier application that looks good but does not meet the fundamental needs of users.
I am sure the work is lost forever but if there is a solution I am missing let me know.

The point is that software can do so much for us today, spell check, grammar check, automatic date, create PDF's etc... but it cannot accommodate recover after crash?
From my perspective my only mistake was using Pages in the first place. For that I can blame myself.

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The other day I was working in Pages & was very happy with myself when my computer, all of a sudden, switched itself off. I wasn't best pleased & was gutted when I realised that I had failed to save any of my work.
I came onto the Apple support site to see if there was any solution but the thread I found on the topic, located here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1910158&tstart=-1 , was very unhelpful & just said it was my own fault.
I have to say that I agree with the original poster in that every program should have the ability to save a crash file just in case, it is not hard. I like to use Logic Pro which is a far more complicated program & that manages to save your work for you, most of the time, should something go wrong. Whether you save regularly or not, you will inevitably lose something if your computer fails.
Anyway, OSX sadly offers no direct solution but I have found myself a suitable workaround for Pages that I thought I should try & make that original poster aware of. Unfortunately that original thread has been closed for some reason so I am having to start afresh.
Basically you just need to download a program called "Keyboard Spy" off of MacUpdate.com (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11131) . Whilst Keyboard Spy is switched on it will record everything you type &, should your computer die at the worst possible moment, you will still have EVERYTHING saved on a nice little .log file on your desktop!
The only real downside is that it does record EVERYTHING you type, so you might need to fiddle around a bit with the files contents to actually find all your words but the important thing is that they will all be there.
I hope that helps.
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Anyone know it it's possible to restore the Pages documents that were on the iPad after chaning the Apple ID?
When I first confirgured my iPad, I used my Apple ID to set it up; however, in the process of migrating MobileMe to iCloud, my MobileMe account became a second Apple ID. When I switched the iPad to the Apple ID create via the MobileMe migration, all of the Pages files were deleted.
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My friend lost all his pages and numbers documents that were on his iPad after updating yesterday. anyone know how to get them back? they weren't saved anywhere but the iPad. are the pages and numbers files stored during the device backup?

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Thanks. If it does an automatic backup when you connect it, which it seems this iPad does, then there will never be an older backup to restore from, is that right?
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