Autosave-No Revisions Option

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  katieexplainsitall · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 9:08 pm

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  I was writing a blog posting via Internet Explorer browser crashed, refreshing the screen to a brand new post page without my content. As I was writing it seemed it was autosaving drafts every two minutes, but now I cant seem to find them, help!

  I read all the support articles but I don’t see an option that says revisions since this content never posted. Is it gone forever, it said it was saving drafts so it seems like I should be able to retrieve them somewhere!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  If there are no revisions and they are not in your Trash they are gone forever.

  If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
  See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  (If you are referring to a page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)

  But if the post was created here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ there is no means of recovery as the auto-save is not functioning there.

  Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  The auto-save works there and the post will be Standard post format unless you change it.

  Do not create posts here > http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ where the auto-save is not working and where you are creating an Aside post format.

  Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/