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  tulipane · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 3:33 pm

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  I cannot find the draft that I saved yesterday. Can anyone help? I’ve searched and find nothing that answers this so that I can find it.

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 6:12 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/

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  tulipane · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 6:43 pm

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  It would really have been nice to know that the auto save feature doesn’t work in all places that it is offered.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 6:48 pm

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  There’s also a disappearing posts issue Staff are aware of so maybe your issue is the same one. I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jan 22, 2014 at 3:53 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’d be happy to help investigate your missing draft. Can you let me know the title of the post you were working on?

  I see that you have four draft posts on your blog right now. You can get to those drafts by going to Posts > All Posts in your dashboard and clicking the Draft link at the top.

  If your draft isn’t listed there, please provide as much information as you can about the post (including the steps you took to create and save it) and I’ll look into it for you. :)