Disappearing Post

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  madelineivybraun · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 3:54 pm

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  My post just deleted itself while I was typing. It completely disappeared.
  I have kept the blog open for several days writing a little bit here and there during the weekend. And then finally today when I went to post my finished blog, it would not autosave and my post disappeared. It is not in my trash, and not in my history. It was a ridiculously long post that had autosaved many times, so where did it go?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 3:55 pm

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  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/