How to Retrieve Deleted Pages Document on Mac?

Updated on March 24, 2022


In this article, we will discuss the most effective ways to restore Pages documents that have been accidentally deleted. However, if you are looking for a hassle-free way to recover Pages documents, then utilize Remo Recover Mac which scans through the drive to recover Pages documents. Apart from Pages documents, it can recover deleted or lost Keynote files effortlessly.


Pages for Mac is the widely used word processing application by Mac users; because it facilitates the user with many advanced features like spell check, grammar check, style sheets and many more.

But these Pages documents go missing or deleted in various instances due to any of reasons. For instance, assume you created some important documents using Pages with lots of effort on Mac. While going through the Mac machine you noticed some unwanted files resided in a volume and deleted them. after deleting you emptied Trash Bin too, later you started realizing that you had accidentally selected some essential Pages documents while deleting useless files.

Now, if you are struggling to recover deleted Pages documents on Mac, in the article below you will learn the hassle-free method to recover the deleted pages documents.

If you have encountered data loss scenarios, don’t worry. Because your Pages are not yet deleted permanently and there is a high probability that you successfully restore the accidentally deleted files, with result-oriented recovery software. Before proceeding let us understand a few scenarios where your vital Pages document gets deleted from the Mac system in the section below.

Reasons to Perform Deleted Pages document recovery on Mac

The below listed scenario are the usually generic reasons for data loss of Pages document on mac

  • Accidentally deleting and emptying Pages from Trash
  • Unintentionally formatting any volume erases essential Pages documents along with other data saved in it
  • If file system of Mac volume gets corrupted it may result in loss of vital Pages documents from Mac system.

If you have faced any of the above scenario in the section below, you will learn how to restore lost or deleted Pages document on your mac

How do I recover deleted or lost Pages documents on Mac?

Method 1: Recover Accidentally deleted Pages document using Trash

If you believe you may have deleted the Pages document by accident, it should be in the trash, and we can recover it from there if your Trash is not set to auto-empty.

  • Open the Trash and check for the deleted Pages documents
  • Now select the file which you want to restore, right-click on the file and select the Put Back option.

Now you will be able to access your Pages documents, if not try and recover the Pages document from the Time machine backup

Method 2: Recover Lost Pages Documents Using Time Machine

Time Machine is a built-in backup feature in macOS. It helps users to create hourly backups for the last 24 hours, daily backups for the previous month, and weekly backups for all prior months automatically.

  • Plug your external hard drive which has your Mac backup
  • Launch the Time Machine
  • Now click on Enter Time Machine option
  • Now select the backup which you want to restore from the Time Machine Backup menu and click on the Restore option.

Now you will be able to access your lost Pages document on Mac easily. In case you have not taken a backup of your important files then it is recommended to make use of reliable data recovery software.

How to Recover Lost Pages Documents on Mac?

If you have to recover your crucial Pages documents deleted from the Mac machine, then Remo Recover Mac is the most suitable software. Because it doesn’t make any changes to the original Pages document and safely retrieves its original text format, OLE objects, hyperlinks, etc. This software is engineered with highly sophisticated file recovery algorithms that perform deep scanning of the entire volume and restores all deleted Pages documents.



Steps to recover accidentally deleted pages document Mac using Remo Recover: -

Step 1: Install and run Remo Recover software on your Mac machine and select Recover Files option from main screen.

Restore Deleted Pages Document - Main Screen

Step 2: On the next screen select Recover Deleted Files option to retrieve deleted pages document.

How to Retrieve Deleted Pages Document on Mac - Select Recover Deleted Files

Step 3: After that select the volume from where you want to recover Word document and click Next button to begin scanning process.

Recovering Deleted Pages Document - Select Volume

Step 4: Soon after completion of scanning process you can view list of recovered files in two types of views which are File Type View and Data View.

Recover Deleted Pages Document Mac - Recovered Word Documents List

Step 5: Finally click on the Save option to get back the recovered files to the desired location.

Safety Tips: -

  • Enable “Time Machine” to take backup of important files regularly.
  • Make sure twice or thrice that you have not selected vital Pages documents while deleting unwanted documents.