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[philipt42]

WHY WHY WHY does pages not have an autosave?!

I just lost hours worth of work

I really am angry at apple right now. It's a BASIC feature of a word processor, and I wish I had gotten word instead. While we're on the subject, pages is not as intuitive as word, and the layout is not as logical. I should be over the learning curve with a year of use, and I still have not mastered it.

If anyone wishes to rant here, or even suggest software that will give me an autosave feature in pages feel free!

 

[spice weasel]

I'm sorry you lost your work. That really does suck, and we've all been there at some point or another.

However, not saving after working on a document for hours? That was some serious user error there. I use Pages at home at Word at work, and I hit cmd+s/ctrl+s in each of them every couple of lines, out of habit.

As for Word being more intuitive than Pages, that's a personal choice. I much prefer Pages, but I can see how others might prefer Word.

 

[philipt42]

I'm sorry you lost your work. That really does suck, and we've all been there at some point or another.

However, not saving after working on a document for hours? That was some serious user error there. I use Pages at home at Word at work, and I hit cmd+s/ctrl+s in each of them every couple of lines, out of habit.

As for Word being more intuitive than Pages, that's a personal choice. I much prefer Pages, but I can see how others might prefer Word.

Thanks for your sympathy
Yeah, as you say, we've all been there before - I just forgot to press save. A rather unusual thing for me , but then again, Word has never crashed.

The terrible thing is, I want to like Pages so badly - I usually like any given apple program over any windows equivalent. Not this time. It is better only for a few things, in my opinion, and the rest of the time there's serious flaws - like no autosave.

Ah, well. I just need to rant a little.

 

[PeggyD]

ForeverSave Lite is a free utility that will autosave any applications on your Mac at specified intervals. Used to be EverSave.

 

[philipt42]

ForeverSave Lite is a free utility that will autosave any applications on your Mac at specified intervals. Used to be EverSave.

Thank you , this could be exactly what I'm looking for!

 

[TRUCRACKER]

Yes, it should be included, but it's not. You should know by now to save every now and then when you're working on something.

 

[steveoc]

The full version is well worth the $15. The back up and versioning systems give another layer of protection. It lets you revert to earlier versions of a document.