Dead On Arrival — No Working Revision Backup

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    janrssor · Member ·

    This morning I spent 30 minutes writing to an article I had started yesterday. It was still on my screen.

    When I clicked Save Draft, I was greeted by this miserable screen saying “please try again”. I now recall seeing this a year ago when I tried the same thing. Trying again brought me back to yesterdays text with NONE Of my work from today. The Revisions, did not show any of my editing from today either.

    If for some reason, WordPress logs you out, which I am NOT loggged out or does something like this, it should display a screen saying ‘please log-in again’ and not let 30 minutes of creative work go to to hell.

    Janr Ssor

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Provided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to your blog’s servers I can help you with this.

    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/)

    I recommend:

    1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
      Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
    2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
    3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
    4. Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. Save it properly and return to edit it later.
    5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

    If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

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