MACBOOK PRO OS 15.4.1 ACCIDENTALLY DELETED PAGES DOCUMENT; WOULD LIKE TO RECOVER IT
ACCIDENTALLY DELETED PAGES DOCUMENT; WOULD LIKE TO RECOVER IT
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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.4
No Apple employees participate in these fellow user-supported public communities. This is not Apple Support, and we are not responsive, or even required to respond to emphatic use of capital (shouting) letters in a post.
Once you delete a Pages document, and it is not still in your Trash where you could use Put back to recover it, then you will need to restore the document from a recent Time Machine backup. Failing that, you would need to see if the file is stored on external media, or if you mailed it to someone who could send it back.
If on iCloud Drive, Apple has a remedy if exercised within 30 days of the deletion:
Recover deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support
Apple's macOS is a UNIX operating system and your internal drive on that MacBook Pro is an SSD. Any file that is deleted will have its several file locations on disk marked for reallocation to serve new operating system and application storage requests. Essentially, that means that no so-called Mac recovery software is going to get all of that file data back, if any.
All good, except for that lost Pages document. Time to consider Time Machine and an external drive formatted as APFS. That external drive should be 2 - 3x the size of your internal MacBook Storage.
I am using either a Crucial X9 Pro or Crucial X9 (less expensive, but still fast SSD) for my Time Machine backups on Sequoia v15.5. No issues with the drives here.
Dear VikingOSX. First, I want to apologize to you for my all caps message. I don’t usually do that. But my typing skills are in a state of decline since mid February when I injured my left index finger. It’s difficult for me to type with a band aid on my finger so to compensate I have been using all caps. Obviously you couldn’t have known that. Also I was frustrated with myself and the Community system because I am pretty new with it and really didn’t know completely how it worked. I really appreciate that you called me out and tried to help me. I did call Apple Support and after a lengthy period of trying they claimed my deleted file was not recoverable. So thank you, Irish315
I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED PAGES DOCUMENT ON MY MACBOOK PRO. I LOOKED IN TRASH; NOT THERE.; I WOULD LIKE TO GET IT BACK. IS IT STILL ON MY DEVICE? IF SO HOW CAN I RECOVER IT?
I ALREADY DID TELL YOU. WHAT DO I NEED TO NEXT? ARE YOU GOING TO ANSWER ME?
How to recover accidentally deleted Pages document on MacBook Pro macOS 15.4.1?
