Accidentally saved Pages file to an older version

[Miles1]

Hi, Not sure what I’ve done but have lost my latest saved Pages file, only an older version showing.
Mac OS High Sierra
Don't have Time Machine in use and have checked for all Versions in Pages and Finder ..has all my work gone forever? Please reply in simple language , Thanks

Miles

 

[Juicy Box]

That sucks...

Could they be saving to the cloud?

I hate how Pages and some other Apple apps save files, especially how it auto-saves things.

 

[Miles1]

Thanks , had a look but not on the Cloud, think I replaced the new version with an old version somehow when saving

 

[Juicy Box]

Thanks , had a look but not on the Cloud, think I replaced the new version with an old version somehow when saving

Hopefully you figure it out.

I went through something similar last year when trying out one of Apple's apps instead of using MS Office like I usually do. I thought I lost hours worth of work by clicking on something that totally changed my document, it auto-saved, and "undo" didn't work.

I was so frustrated. Apple takes a perfectly working task of saving and changes it in a very non-intuitive way.

After having to search on the internet, I ended up figuring out how to revert the changes to my document, and I was able to get my work back, but after that, I decided not to use Apple's version of MS Office anymore.

Also, I am not a new Apple user, I have been using Apple for almost 3 decades, but sometimes they just do some silly stuff.

 

[Gregg2]

Good luck to you, but without a backup, you're probably out of that.

My recommendation: at least 2 different backups. I have 3: on iCloud, on a flash drive, on an external drive. It really doesn't take long to copy a file to a flash drive every time you alter it.

 

[Pemofo]

That sucks...

Could they be saving to the cloud?

I hate how Pages and some other Apple apps save files, especially how it auto-saves things.

Can auto-save in Pages be disabled? If you mess up a document you can't 'save without changes' to get the original back.

 

[Ritsuka]

If you mess up a document you can get a previous version in File -> Revert to… or undo the changes by pressing cmd-z or File -> Undo.

Auto-save can be disable in System Preferences -> General.