Crucial Disappeared Pages Document—not on ext. hard drive and not in iCloud.

Dear muguy,

I've saved it on Pages, but I don't know how to navigate to the folder because there's no record for the title of the document.

I wonder if you could please explain to very old me what I so ignorantly don't understand about what folder it would be in. I wrote it in Pages, and each time I closed it, I clicked "save changes."

I was always able to find it by opening Pages, and clicking on it's title under Recently Opened. But now it's not there. Nor anywhere.

I appears to have evaporated, with no trace.

I've opened many dates on my ext. hard drive, dates I know I was working on the document, but there's no trace of it on any back date.

Oh, you dear helpers, Muguy and Viking, I've found the missing document!

Hours spent on the phone with Apple's senior advisors with no success—and now there are fast solutions from you.

I clicked on every date on my ext. hard drive until I found a copy from months back.

It was an old version, but as mysteriously as it had disappeared, the newest version popped up on a recent backup from a few days ago.

The weirdest part is that I'd searched the external hard drive with Apple's advisors in the same manner and the same dates, but no version of it was anywhere. One advisor explained it wasn't there because Pages is only saved to iCloud and not to external hard drives.

So I only searched the hard drive again because you assured me that it must be there, as I'd always backed it up.

I trust you can sense what this means to me. I'll be thinking of you with endless gratitude as I complete the long letter to leave for my children. May you be blessed.

Hugs to you for your sensitivity and kindness.