Rescuing non-saved Pages files

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.
Message was edited by: Bass Kadet

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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 23 juillet 2009 22:38:40)

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