Somewhere between December and the end of January, several of my pages documents disappeared from both my macbook pro and my icloud backup? I was able to find one on my ipad, but the rest are gone. Can anyone help me locate them?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.3
If your Dock Trash can is not empty, single-click on it to see if it contains any of those missing Pages documents. If it does, right-click on them and choose Put Back.
If these Pages documents were deleted from iCloud, Apple has a 30-day sliding window for you to recover them.
Recover deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support
Apple's iCloud is intended as a convenience service, not a backup solution. That is what a Time Machine backup to a local drive does for you. Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support. If you do have a Time Machine backup from the timeframe of the missing documents, you might consider that as a recovery solution using Time Machine from your Applications folder.
Provided you have configured the selected Spotlight Search Results category Documents, and the local drive has been indexed, you may be able to locate your missing (but not deleted) Pages documents with the following Spotlight query. It asks for Pages documents that were modified between the two timeframes:
kind:pages modified:12/01/2024-02/01/2025
Pages will continue to save documents in the last chosen folder location until you change it in a subsequent save. Sometimes, this has the effect of hiding documents from users who do not understand that Pages save behavior.
Pages documents are missing