June 13, 2011
Apple Pages Software BUG
Do you use a Mac? The software package they have that is most comparable to Microsoft Word is called Pages. Guess what? Pages software by Apple has a MAJOR FLAW in it.
Can you believe that Pages software doesn't have an Auto Save function? That's insane. Old versions of WordPerfect word processing software from 15 years ago had this.
I just lost two hours of work because Steve Jobs and his crew forgot to add this basic functionality to Pages software.
Give me a break. How hard is it to include this simple, but needed software feature.
Wordperfect software starts to save what you're working on the moment you start on a document, even if you've not titled the document. If you close the software, or there's a power outage, no worries, all your work is there.
But not with Pages software by Apple. Give me a break.
Steve, take part of the billions of dollars you have in the corporate coffers and have this feature developed asap.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Posted by Tim Carter at June 13, 2011 5:29 PM
Hi Tim,
In the mean time, while waiting for Steve Jobs to do the right thing, here's what I did to help my husband who had the same problem of never remembering to save his work. I got on his computer and opened iCalendar and set it to give a message 4 times every single day that says, "Honey, save your work, I love you". He has thanked me many times and said what a big difference it has made in remembering to save his work. My hubby said it's the next best thing to an auto save.
Pages has so many great features, but also some "issues," this lack of auto save being a really big one. And I always set my auto save to about 10 minutes. Pages also cannot be used in document sharing unless both parties have the program - which can present big problems in some situations. It can't be converted to anything except a PDF. Maybe it can be converted to a Google doc, I'm not sure, but Google docs don't solve any but the most basic kind of document sharing (In fact, they are pretty useless for anything the least bit sophisticated.) I have a Mac at home, and even though Pages is basically a good program, I don't have it because of those kinds of frustrations.
Posted by: Marty at June 13, 2011 11:26 PMPages has so many great features, but also some "issues," this lack of auto save being a really big one. And I always set my auto save to about 10 minutes. Pages also cannot be used in document sharing unless both parties have the program - which can present big problems in some situations. It can't be converted to anything except a PDF. Maybe it can be converted to a Google doc, I'm not sure, but Google docs don't solve any but the most basic kind of document sharing (In fact, they are pretty useless for anything the least bit sophisticated.) I have a Mac at home, and even though Pages is basically a good program, I don't have it because of those kinds of frustrations.
Posted by: Marty at June 13, 2011 11:27 PMI agree that the lack of an auto-save feature is a mistake. WRT the other comment about not being able to share Pages documents in any other format than PDF is not true. You can "export" a document as PDF, MS Word, RTF, Plain Test, or ePub.
Good news, tho. In July, the next version of the Mac OS, Lion, will be released (for $29.99). It will include an auto-save feature that will work for every application you own, built into the operating system. Read more: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/auto-save.html
