Keynote crashes looses all my work!

[RedTomato]

So I've been working for 4 hours on a Keynote presentation for tomorrow. Then I import something from a Powerpoint file. Keynote crashes.

No problem thinks I. I'll just open the savefile. Maybe I've lost 10 mins work but that's fine.

Nope. THERE'S NO AUTO-RECOVER FILE!!! THERE'S NO SETTING TO ACTIVATE AUTOSAVE

How can Apple call this a work application if it doesn't autosave? ARRGH!!!

Other apple apps implement data protection and crash recovery, (iMovie, FCP etc) how about some of it here in KeyNote??

 

[laeeqhumam]

Try two things:
1. Delete the plist and retry.
2. Reinstall if u can.

 

[miles01110]

Lack of an autosave feature is more than a little questionable (come on, even Microsoft Office does this...), but after 4 hours why wouldn't you save it manually even just once?

 

[0858131]

Sorry to hear you lost a ton of work... For future reference though (and until Apple implements an autosave feature into iWork), you may want to checkout EverSave. It's basically a free third-party tool that'll do it for you.