HELP! autosave deleted an hour back

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  swoessner · Member · Mar 5, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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  I just wrote a very long blogpost, it always autosaved the new version as usual and when I hit the publish-button the version from an hours before was published and all the other versions were gone!!!
  Is there any way to retrieve my post?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2012 at 11:31 pm

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  In your Dashboard view, on the upper right corner, under the “[name]” is a tab labeled “Screen Options.” Click it. Here is a list o f the screens where the modules can be hidden:
  screen options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/
  list of modules http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/#list-of-modules

  Posts – Post Tags, Categories, Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Discussion, Comments, Post Slug, Post Author, Post Revisions
  Pages – Page Attributes, Recommendations, Featured Image, Discussion, Comments, Slug, Author, Revisions
  Select those and return to your Dashboard.

  Make sure you select Select Post Revisions and Page Revisions those and return to your Dashboard. Then close the tab.

  Then please try this step by step walk through > Recovering a lost blog post or page

  P.S. In the future if you use an offline blog editor there will be a backup on your own computer of every post and page you create in it and publish from it to your blog.

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  swoessner · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 12:01 am

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  The problem is that I published my article at around midnight. There were autosave versions until that moment. when I hit the publish button though, the time set itself back to an hour earlier, so it said the post was published at 11, and the version from back then. the autosave versions from after that have disappeared. Any way to retrieve them? I mean it must be stored somewhere…?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 12:07 am

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  You can look the last autosave for Posts » Post Revisions and I provided everything you need above.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 12:09 am

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  http://en.support.wordpress.com/autosave/

  The Post Revisions module shows any backup copies of your post. Each time you click Save Draft or Update Post, a revision is saved. WordPress.com will store the last 25 revisions for each post on your blog. Post Revisions allow you to look back at the recent changes you’ve made and revert to an earlier version if you need to. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

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  swoessner · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 12:12 am

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  Well unfortunately it doesn’t. It shows only three and none after an hour before I published.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 12:18 am

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  That’s too bad because that means they are gone and you will not be able to get them back. :(