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I've spent several hours building a newsletter and now cannot save the document... "Save as" does not work, neither does "Duplicate."
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    This is a mean one. I don't have time to try and find the cause, but at least some answers to your questions, to hopefully shed some more light on this.
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    Another Server? No access at this time.
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    When attempting to save a Numbers checklist document, I get the message "Couldn't auto-save document." What does this mean and why can't I save it to my hard drive?

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    If that didn't work, I was going to simply shut down the computer...and do a complete re-start. That is another option that often times gives a new look to life for apps which are acting up.
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    I have a very basic smallish spreadsheet with no forumlas, formating, etc and it won't save after the initial save.  When I attempt to save I get this: "Couldn't auto-save document".  I checked the file in Finder and it wasn't modified.
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    When I make a new document in Pages and want to save it, there is no option to save it in iCloud. What must I do to be able to do that?

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    I have windows XP sp3 + all updates, Firefox 6.0.2 and Adobe Reader X (10.1.0).
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    "The Disk you were saving to or the Disk used for Temporary files is  full.  Free some space on this disk and try again, or save to a  different disk."
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    If I open a document with Adove Reader and save as it works, so it seem to be associated with the Firefox plugin.
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    Allan

    Thanks to Bernd and Allan
    "Save as" from within the browser is ok. However it is not the most convenient method.
    I've deinstalled Adobe Reader X and deleted all the remaining files from a previous version (8) which had obviously not been cleared correctly, and cleaned the hard disk including registry keys with CCleaner. Then I've reinstalled Adobe Reader X. The problem remains
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    - fonduekid "Adobe Reader X - Firefox integration Problem", first posted on November 23, 2010, dito
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    Franziska

  • Pages 5.1 giving a 'Couldn't auto-save document' error on OSX Mavericks 10.9.1.

    I was working on a class assignment, which was stored on iCloud and was working great until I noticed that instead of the ' -Edited' tag beside the file name stood a peculiar 'Not Saved' tag. When I tried to manually save the updated version, it's giving me a dialogue box error saying 'Couldn't Autosave document'. I am able to work through the document and make changes and print, but it isn't saving. Even if I try to export its giving me the same Dialogue box error. Please advice, this is the first time I have come across such a problem in using Pages in the last 7 years.
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    Bah!!! I have only just experienced this issue (along with a billion other issues in Pages, but I'll leave that for another day!).
    Thank you to all the great suggestions here, which didn't quite work, but led me to something that did.
    I tried this and it didn't quite work:
    "Hi! There seems to be a workaround for this (I've had this problem too, you'd think Apple'd sort it out?!?!)
    At the top of your Pages document is the name of your document. Hover your mouse over this briefly and a drop down arrow will appear. From here you can name the document, give it a Tag and choose the save destination. Click this drop down arrow, and select your save destination from another drop down that will apear. After you have clicked on your selected save destination, click away from the drop down. Then, simply save (Cmd+S OR navigate to file>save) and it will have saved for you!"
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    For some unknown reason this worked for me where the other suggestion didn't quite work.
    I've had to find so many work arounds like this in Pages recently, which you shouldn't have to do!
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    I hope these issues get sorted before I thrown the computer out the window due to pure frustration!

  • Why can't I save documents?

    For the past 2 days, everytime I attempt to save a document, I get an error message "the file 'untitled' can't be opened becuase it has been deleted". I have tried to use save, and saveas, and change the document name and I still can't save any documents. Can anyone help me?
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    gpullins
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    The first thing I would try is to delete the preferences files.
    The following is a quote from Peggy who posts here often:
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