lost text in pages when app shut down

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lost text in pages when app shut down

I have an iMac and use pages. I put my desktop on icloud so I could access files on a laptop. I added text on an existing file that was going to iCloud, but the file accidentaly got closed. When I went to open it up, i had lost 25 pages if text. Is there a way to retrieve it. when I opened it up, it said it was unable to download my changes.

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.7

Posted on Sep 15, 2025 07:42 AM

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VikingOSX

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Sep 15, 2025 03:10 PM in response to sarkathy

Pages does not autosave document contents until you manually perform an initial save and give the document a proper name other than Untitled.pages. Without that critical save, any content in Pages will be lost forever if the application is deliberately, accidentally, or quits owing to a crash. There is no recovery for this category of lost content.

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