Recovering a pages document

I was just working on this document, and then when I went to go save it, the rainbow wheel of death came up. Needless to say, I had to force quit Pages and the document is completely vanished. (THIS IS WHY I AM USUALLY A PC GIRL!!!!) I am used to the auto-recovery from windows. Is there anything like this on a mac!?!

Not for Pages, unless you installed it yourself or are using the latest version of Pages on Mac OS X 10.7.
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I made the error I shouldn't .
I made a new document A with Pages which I saved.
Then I started from this docment A to make a completely new one
with the idea to save it later with a new name B.
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Hello
Which Pages version are you using ?
Pages '08 create packages but the default format used by Pages '09 is flatfile which may be revived by recovery tools.
If you are using Pages '08 or Pages '09 under 10.6.8, you may install my Autosave script which keep an archive of works in progress every ten minutes.
With it at work, it would be easy to revive your document.
The tools which you name can't revive the entire structure of a package but sometimes they may retrieve the index.xml.gz file. I wrote "sometimes" because you described the optimistic scheme. In practice the process may reuse some blocks of the original version for the new one.
As far as I know, every Pages's index.xml.gz files start with the same group of bytes :
which may be used to help recovery apps to retrieve them.
If you retrieve the wanted one, looking in it you would retrieve the list of embedded picture files.
With a bit of luck, their original version is available somewhere on your HD.
With this set of files you may rebuild the Pages document.
Here is what I got when I replaced the index.xml.gz file from a newly created document by one borrowed to an other one.
As you see, I got the location of pictures in the file and the list of the picture files.
With that, it's easy to complmete the doc.
It's more annoying if the file embedded charts but, when the lost doc is one which we built, it's not too difficult to restore the charts from the source tables.
Before leaving, I will repeat the tip which I use for years to get rid of what you did.
When I save a Pages document as azerty.pages, I rename it as azerty.template.
This way, when I open it, I get a copy with no risk to destroy the original.
For Numbers doc, I rename qsdfg.numbers as qsdfg.nmbtemplate
Some weeks ago, I posted here a script automating the process. It apply in fact to every kind of docs. For iWork ones, it rename them, for docs issued of other apps, it set their system's attribute "stationary" to true.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 12 janvier 2011 12:50:01
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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Hi,
Apologies for the long post. For my three questions, please skip to the bold copy below. The first couple paragraphs are preamble.
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Hi Brian
I had the same exact thing happen to me - except it was my wireless keyboard that disabled my ipad. I also have documents on Pages that I did not want t to lose. This worked for me! Found it on another help site....I was able reactivate my ipad - nothing lost - all is good!
1. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
2. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
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5. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
6. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
7. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
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Hello,
the history of it:
I had a situation with the apple software "aperture" where rendering out a large slideshow to video to external drive actually used up the remaining 50 gigs of hard drive space on my local drive within the laptop. as a result "disk utility" showed 0 disc space left. resulting in me not being able to save my "pages" document before I closed it. (amongst other problems).
I had spent over a year writing this pages document as a journal every other day. (no backups). I had really ended up trusting my mac because of its robust performance this last 2 years >.<
I had pressed "discard or close" something like that from memory when trying to close it before shutting down my computer due to zero disc space left. but that should have only got rid of the days writing correct ?? / not deleted the whole document... !!
I had deleted the trash after logging back in to try and free up disc space (not realizing that perhaps, the pages document had been moved there).
Is there anywhere I can retrieve this document its gone !. (I have managed to get some disc space back but cannot find the document).

Hi john,
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Hank,
You were wise to search for answers here. There's no doubt that there is more collective wisdom in these discussions than you would expect to encounter in one first-echelon phone support person. You are also wise to be using TimeMachine so you have that recovery option available to you.
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In the meantime I have tried various fixes. First I tried to change the file ending to .zip, unpack it and open it. Then the same, but this time I tried to view package contents. It doesn't show up in the contextual menu as even having a package to show the contents of. The file is effectively empty, but I don't know where the contents went! The funny thing is that the MS Word doc was recovered automatically. Is it possible that Pages doesn't have an auto-recovery mechanism?
I need this file urgently, or at least the text in it. It is the bibliography of an important paper due tomorrow at 5 pm.Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I can't respond before.
When the system say that your file size is 0KB, it means that nothing was saved. Only a file descripto exists.
So, there is nothing to recover.
Given the time the system crashed, you may have :
(1) a simple descriptor with nothing written
(2) a folder with every or only some of the required files.
In this case, Phoenix is useless : it's unable to revive a folder.
(3) a flatfile (a compressed version of the folder named above). It's only this kind of file which Phoenix may revive.
With a bit of luck, Phoenix would be able to revive the index.xml file which was in the original folder created in the temporary folder.
This file starts with :
<?xml version="1.0"?><sl:document xmlns:sfa="http://developer.apple.com/namespaces/sfa"
or
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<sl:document xmlns:sfa="http://developer.apple.com/namespaces/sfa"
The minimal size for a Pages index.xml file is : 520038 bytes.
If you retrieve the index.xml file, we may try to rebuild an usable package.
Ask the recovery tool to transfer the recovered file on an other media.
If the document embedded pictures, the index will give their path and their size which may be useful to recover them.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 1 novembre 2010 10:27:44

I have a Pages document in iCloud that will not open. I have Time Machine. How do I get to the version of the document that is not corrupted?

I'm in a bind. I tried to open a Pages document that I saved from the current version of Pages on my iMac this morning on my iPad, which has the current version of Pages of the iPad. It would not open on the iPad. Now it also will not open on the iMac, or on the Beta of iCloud Pages.
If it were on my hard drive, I could use Time Machine to recover the most recent version, but it's in iCloud. I've been told that implies that there is a local copy, but I don't know where that is.
It's a book manuscript I've been working on for months. I'm not happy.
Thanks for the help.

Your opinion of Apple products seems unusually harsh. I know how iCloud works and I'm generally pretty happy with it. I also like Pages a lot more than MS Word, and somewhat more than NeoOffice. Word is overripe with so many features Microsoft keeps radically changing the interface in the desperate hope that somehow they will make it easy to use again, but instead, they just confuse everybody with the unnecessary changes.
They had menus, until there were too many options to fit the screen, so they added submenues, until that wasn't enough, so they added dialog boxes, until that wasn't enough, so they added tabbed dialog boxes, and realized that a lot of commonly used features were too hard to get to, so they added the Toolbar just as a shortcut to the more common features and then came up with the unforgivable decision to eliminate the menu interface entirely in the Windows version of the product and replace it with The Ribbon, which took me so long to interpret that I stopped using Word altogether.
NeoOffice is simpler and quite useful, but it was iCloud that sold me on Pages. It's great being able to review and edit documents on iOS devices in addition to automatically synchronizing across Mac OS X devices.
I have options for synchronization with Box and DropBox, and I have a network share I can use, if having a local copy isn't important, but I find that having a local copy (like with Box, DropBox and iCloud) is great because each computer I use has Time Machine, so I don't have to rely on the service to restore a file. I can get it, myself. It's easier to browse to the version I want in Time Machine than it is to estimate the time I want to restore from and hope that someone else can find the right version of the file from whenever they made a backup to restore it for me. I have unhappy experiences from this kind of request to restore stuff.
I find Box and DropBox to be somewhat crude compared to iCloud. I like Apple's new attitude toward saving files. When I edit in Pages and exit, the file is saved. If I edit a file and the power goes out, I generally lose a sentence or less. In traditional apps, I can easily lose hours of work, unless I remember to manually save as I go.
iCloud is not a general remote file storage facility. At it's root, it is a roaming version of whatever you have on iOS devices. So, if I want to access a file from multiple devices and not have to worry about versions, I use iCloud.
This problem I just had was the first problem I've had with iCloud, and with Time Machine, and I use them a lot. Having someone tell me where the local copy of the documents are fixed the problem.
I love Time Machine.
For myself, when I upgraded from Bento 1 to Bento 2 on several computers, one of them choked on my data file. I followed Bento's directions to recover the data file until it said to reinstall Bento 1 from original medium. I couldn't find my disc. Yes, I had bought it. I don't steal software. But I couldn't find my disc.
So, I used Time Machine to restore Bento 1. Just try restoring an older version of an app in Windows from any backup software available to Windows and see how far you get.
I helped someone else recover a couple thousand email messages using Time Machine instead of dealing with the email service because we could open Mail, go to the folder where the messages had disappeared when she had a power glitch, and then browse back until we found the backup just before the messages disappeared. The restore took about 20 minutes, but again, this verges on magic.
I've used Time Machine to restore an older version of OS X when someone discovered that a crucial app wasn't ready for it yet. The glitch was that she hadn't backed up for a month. She kept ignoring the warning prompts. So, when I showed up, I had her do a current backup before doing the restore. We then restored to the old OS, restarted in the old OS and opened Time Machine to recover all her documents, pictures, etc. from the current backup, so she didn't lose a month of work. This is another thing I can't do with other backup programs.
So, I'm generally pretty happy with Apple. Once someone told me where the local copy of my iCloud documents resides, I could take care of this most recent problem.

Pages crashes when trying to open a pages document.

Hi there, I'm new to the forum.
I have been working on a business plan since June and amended it as recently as yesterday. I saved it regularly and I closed the application normally.
However, on trying to open the document today Pages I get the progress window that tells me the file is opening. It gets halfway and I get the window with "The application Pages quit unexpectedly".
I have tried the reset option and everything else I can think of. I can open other pages documents it seems only this one is corrupted.
Is there anything I can do to recover my work. Any help much appreciated.

You got a corrupted file.
This is why I wrote many times: don't rely on Save.
Use Save as so you will be able to check that the newly saved document is OK before removing the old one.
You may also activate the feature allowing Pages to keep the late version when it saves.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) dimanche 16 août 2009 12:30:30

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