Recovering files after a force shut down

**** all,
My mbp froze up last night and I had to do a forced shut down. When I rebooted all was fine except for a pages document that was open during the freeze was lost. Can this file be recovered?
Thanks,
Brian

I don't know if Pages periodically saves to a temp file, but if it does, that temp file should be in a Recovered Files folder in your trash can. If it's not there, or if you emptied your trash and got rid of that Recovered Files folder, then you're out of luck. Any unsaved changes are gone.

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