Wrong document saved, how can i get it back!

Question

Hi all,
Today I was working with Pages for my study.
I was making a large document full of images and shapes.
After a while the document got bigger and bigger, so I saved my document every 5-10 minutes.
When I was finished, i wanted to quit the program, ut before I did that I accidentally deleted everything (because Pages was lagging a bit, due to the big file)
and SAVED that empty document as my last save!
So, when I opened my document again, it was empty, and there was no option to Undo my actions.
When I check the info of the file, it says its 88,3Mb in size, which means the file has to contain my previous saved stuff.
My question is: HOW can I get this back?
I hope it is possible, and that one of you know how to 'find/recover' my older saved files.
It took me a whole day to set up this document, and the deadline is close.
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: LukeIJzer

Answer 1

What you have is a lot of images mixed in with a lot of spaces, tabs and returns to position them.
Unfortunately you also have wrap set on your images which are interacting with everything else which is causing them to pop off the page when they don't fit.
That is why your file is so huge but appears to have nothing in it.
When a file is such a mess it is hard to describe how to fix it without seeing it and untangling it.
Start by making your images inline on their own paragraphs, with spacing set at 1 with maybe some space before.
Work your way through the document, cleaning up all extra spaces, tabs and returns and resetting your images. At first try not to have images overlapping until you have worked out what they are doing to the text and other images around them.
Think about what is going to happen when you position objects with wrap as to what is going to push what where. Especially if you have stay with next checked in your Text inspector. That pulls text and objects associated with it over to the next page as well.
Peter