I was typing a lot of text and when I came to update it a little later the document had disappeared.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.5
Pages will only activate autosave when you initially and manually save a document with a name. If you open Pages and start typing and quit Pages without saving that document once, the temporary document and all content is permanently lost.
Pages does not delete files, but it does save a document in its last save location. Your document may be there. That document should also be the topmost item in your File menu > Open Recent menu.
Another method to locate a missing Pages document would be the following from the Spotlight 🔍 menu tool using this syntax to locate any Pages document created after (>) Dec 1:
kind:pages created:>12/01/2024
Thank you but I did save it several times,
I've lost a PAGES document