Draft of post is gone!
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I was writing a very long post at this link:http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ and not at this link http://sarkology.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post
I was under the impression that it supported autosave, which I distinctly remember being present in some earlier posts I wrote. But unfortunately it was not there for the very long post I was writing. I accidentally closed the browser window. So I checked under “Drafts” but it wasn’t there! I’m really distressed as I have put much effort into writing the post!
Is it *entirely* gone? Is this a bug or the usual operation of the software? Please help! Thank you in advance.
Blog url: http://sarkology.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You may be able to recover an earlier Post Revision. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/ Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post.
If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.
If you cannot locate the post by using the instructions I provided for locating and restoring a post revision, and it’s not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash
Advice:
When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post, set it back to publish and update it. The problem with posts disappearing when saved as a draft has been around for a while, but only seems to hit a small number of people randomly.The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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Hi timethief. Thanks for your generous help.
Unfortunately the post is neither in All Posts nor in the thrash. I’m afraid it’s really gone :(
Thanks for your advice too. It seems I was just terribly unlucky. I definitely hope to avoid this happening again!
Again, thank you. Your help is a great solace even if not any compensation :)
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