Contents of Draft Gone
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I opened one post to work on it. The post was in my drafts. Almost all of my work is gone. I checked the revision history, and the ‘newest’ revision is from January 31st. I’ve worked on this post as recently as February 6th or 7th, and I’ve successfully saved it multiple times. Is there a fix or a reason this happened?
I want to add that this is a book review I’ve been writing for over a week. I received an advanced reader’s copy of a book in exchange for an honest review, and since the subject matter was complicated and nuanced, I was trying to write a review that reflected that. This post was part of that exchange, and losing the review hurts both me and the author. I have limited time and energy, I do not have it in me to redo all of this.
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Hi there!
Could you please share a link to the post (it doesn’t matter if it’s just a draft, we can still check it)?
Were you working on it from the same device, or have you switched, for example, between the browser and app? -
Thank you for responding!
Draft: https://wordpress.com/post/featheredturtlepress.wordpress.com/2617
I’ve only ever worked on it from my laptop, on Firefox.
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If you open that post on your laptop do you see a message at the top that there is an unsaved draft?
It can be the case that if you lose connection to our servers, a copy of your work is saved in your local browser storage. Typically if you re-open the post you will see a message warning you of this.
Do you see this message if you open https://wordpress.com/post/featheredturtlepress.wordpress.com/2617 on your laptop?
Thanks for the additional info!
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I can see 6 revisions on that post, the biggest one from Jan 29th:
If the content you’re missing is not in one of those, I’m afraid there’s nothing else we could do :(.
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Thank you. I figured as much, but thought it was worth a try. I had worked on it this weekend, so those are definitely not it. It was close to 900 words last I checked. (A friend and were doing writing “sprints” and I was checking the amount frequently.)
Do you know why this might have happened? I’ve never had content vanish under these conditions.
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It’s hard to say what might have happened; the content should have been saved automatically:
https://wordpress.com/support/editors/page-post-revisions/#saving-and-autosave.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can also see some possible autosave issues.
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