Draft is gone

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  beachbuddah · Member · Jan 8, 2015 at 4:24 pm

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  My draft is missing. I have been having both internet connectivity problems as wellas some unexpected browser closings. Up until this last event, I have been able to return to my blog and recover the post I have been working on this morning.

  This last time I returned to my blog and and there was no option to recover my draft and there is no draft in my ‘Drafts’ section.

  If anyone has a suggestion or a fix, I’d appreciate it.

  TIA,

  Chris

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 8, 2015 at 9:24 pm

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  Oh no! That doesn’t sound good at all when it comes to recovery.

  To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
  http://uncivillberties.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
  http://uncivillberties.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

  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 the servers for your blog you may be able to recover a lost post or page.

  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
  2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
  4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

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  beachbuddah · Member · Jan 8, 2015 at 11:04 pm

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  timethief,

  Thanks for the quick response. It looks like the pooch has been screwed. I am left with the barest of bones of an outline I had worked on last night.

  Ahh, technology…