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Stewart Smith - 29 May 2008 12:30 GMT

Just had pages crash on me, apparently losing an hours work. Doesn't it
save anything when it crashes (like OpenOffice does) or autosave to
somewhere like Word? If not then for all that it's a more pleasant user
experience it does appear to be more of a toy than something seriously
useful.

Stewart

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Ben Shimmin - 29 May 2008 12:56 GMT

Stewart Smith <nospam@ee.ed.ac.uk>:

> Just had pages crash on me, apparently losing an hours work. Doesn't it
> save anything when it crashes (like OpenOffice does) or autosave to
> somewhere like Word? If not then for all that it's a more pleasant user
> experience it does appear to be more of a toy than something seriously
> useful.

Apparently Pages doesn't do autosave (a bizarre omission, I would say).
A quick Google turns up some probably helpful AppleScript solutions.

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Stewart Smith - 29 May 2008 13:06 GMT

> Stewart Smith <nospam@ee.ed.ac.uk>:
>> Just had pages crash on me, apparently losing an hours work. Doesn't it
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> Apparently Pages doesn't do autosave (a bizarre omission, I would say).
> A quick Google turns up some probably helpful AppleScript solutions.

I wouldn't care if it didn't do autosave if it also had some sort of
crash recovery system like OpenOffice. I have got one of those
AppleScripts for autosave running now though. I'll just blame M$ anyway
as I was stupidly trying to paste something in directly from Word rather
than opening the file in pages.

Stewart

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