Disaster

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  agrandish · Member · Jun 15, 2014 at 12:40 pm

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  I spent three hours writing an essay, saving after every sentence, and when I went to dashboard to retrieve the draft, all that had been saved was the title. I am absolutely devastated. What happened? Is there any way to retrieve it? I ensured that it had been saved! It said “draft saved” after every time I saved it! What can I do?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 16, 2014 at 6:46 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/)

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

  I recommend:
  Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.

  Click “save draft” frequently when creating posts or pages.

  Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it. Save it properly and return to edit it later.

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