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brand new document, so hadnt been saved, autosave is supposed to take care

if i create a new document, dont save it, it opens automatically each time I open up pages, so remembers the document

pages crashed, document is gone

I tried force quitting pages to test it. Seems to remember an open unsaved document. It lost the first one I tried, but forced it to quit immediately after typing something. When I typed something, left it for a bit, then force quit. It opened again where I was so seems to work for me. Didn't look at versions yet though. That should be a handy feature.
 
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