Can you retrieve a mysteriously gone draft?

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  memoryreactivation · Member · Aug 8, 2012 at 5:29 pm

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  It looks that I have lost the draft of post somehow. I don’t know how it happened, I was working on that post for some time (at least one hour), I read it in the preview window but did not publish it eventually. Few hour later, when I wanted to return to writing I found it gone from draft queue and it is not present in trash folder either. I’m the only admin of the blog and I’m sure I did not cancel that post. I think I did press “save draft” button on leaving, since it is my habit. Is it possible to retrieve somehow?
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  timethief · Member · Aug 8, 2012 at 5:36 pm

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  Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.

  If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it’s not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

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  timethief · Member · Aug 8, 2012 at 5:36 pm

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  Advice:
  When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post, set it back to publish and update it. The problem with posts disappearing when saved as a draft has been around for a while, but only seems to hit a small number of people randomly.

  The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc