I hate pages!

[bibikaa]

Just now I lost 10 brilliant pages of my dissertation paper and I just recovered from a bad writing crises. Now I sit here getting hysterical and cry! Pages just hung itself up and gone were two days of bad ass work!
I am thinking of getting rid of this mac piece of crap and going back to a pc. I just can't life with the constant hung ups of safari, pages and what not! I never ever had that much of trouble with my acer! And why didn't those douche bags of software designers think of auto secure or recovery mode???? Oh boy I am just so mad, guys I just don't know what you've got going on just because that desaster of computer looks good doesn't mean its superior.
Indeed its the worst I've ever known.

WHAT A FRAUD!

[Mac In School]

10 pages over two days, and you lost it all?

Sorry to hear that.

Command-S is your friend.

[SuperBrown]

Bibikaa,

Point the finger at yourself before you point it at others. Heavy Doody is right. No one's fault you weren't saving and backing up your work.

And by the way, learn to write. You used the plural of crisis incorrectly. You just can't LIFE? What does that mean? And what exactly is a desaster?

If these are examples of your "bad ass work," I think the mac did you a favor by losing all of it.

[oli2140]

You didn't save it in two DAYS???

[davidjearly]

Your post is inflammatory at best, and its only purpose is to provoke a response from Mac users.

It's unfortunate what happened with your dissertation, but you can only blame yourself.

Here's why:

1. Regular Saves. Seriously, 10 pages? What were you thinking?
2. Backups. If you have Leopard, use Time Machine. If not, always keep a recent copy of your important document on another drive.
3. System Instability. If Pages and Safari are always crashing, why would you continue to use this system for important work? In addition, I can tell you with 100% certainty that it is not normal for Pages to continually crash. To me, this means there is something wrong with your system, probably a software issue. Try sorting this out.

Here are a few tips:

1. Check available hard drive space to make sure it is not critically low.
2. Repair disk permissions using Disk Utility.
3. Verify your hard drive using Disk Utility.
4. Do you have any Safari plugins installed which could be causing it to crash?

David

[dukebound85]

Just now I lost 10 brilliant pages of my dissertation paper and I just recovered from a bad writing crises. Now I sit here getting hysterical and cry! Pages just hung itself up and gone were two days of bad ass work!
I am thinking of getting rid of this mac piece of crap and going back to a pc. I just can't life with the constant hung ups of safari, pages and what not! I never ever had that much of trouble with my acer! And why didn't those douche bags of software designers think of auto secure or recovery mode???? Oh boy I am just so mad, guys I just don't know what you've got going on just because that desaster of computer looks good doesn't mean its superior.
Indeed its the worst I've ever known.

WHAT A FRAUD!

what a fraud is is you working on your phd without getting into the habit of saving work over the course of 6+ years of university lol jk

only took me one bad experience to get into the habit of using "command-s"

[willcodejavafor]

It does not have some auto recovery function? Sounds a bit weird if it doesn't. I recommend you install Open Office 3.0 which at least has auto recovery.

[Wild-Bill]

Maybe the dissertation paper self-imploded because of the ten pages of atrocious spelling errors it was inundated with. Just a thought.

[chas0001]

For future reference....

[bibikaa]

Hey guys,
well yu shouldn't assume that english is my mother tongue I am actually from France and also write my thesis there, so as long as you can't reply to me in perfect french, you'd better not judge my language skills.
I calmed down and do it all over again, this is my first mac and I was unaware that pages is not saving automatically and since I was working non stop ( I have a set a personal due date) I don't really sleep or close down the mac.
So I guess I just like office better. Do you have any tips though how to fix that problem of my programs constantly hanging up?

[dukebound85]

if you didnt know, you are able to get office for mac as well if you dont like iwork

[Phil A.]

There's an AppleScript on the apple discussion forums here (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2187234&) that will autosave pages documents every 10 minutes, which may help. I've got to agree that it's a massive omission in Pages not to have autosaving, and it's one of the reasons I use Word 2008 instead: You can have the most stable computer in the world and it can still crash, or a power cut could knock it out.
What's the configuration of your machine? and and you running Leopard?

[edesignuk]

Pointless stupid flamebait.

It's off to the wasteland we go.