How do I restore the latest autosaved version of my draft?
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The Help section says posts are autosaved every 2 minutes. I was writing a post when my laptop switched off. Just a few seconds before that I had saved the draft. However, now it is not showing the updated version. It shows my post the way it was yesterday. There is nothing of today’s content. I’ve lost a lot of my content and can’t replicate it. It didn’t even show the view autosave option. Can you please help me restore my content?
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To locate drafts Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
http://confusedconfucuis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postProvided 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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I had manually saved the draft a minute before the laptop switched off. It didn’t save anything from today. Where from can I retrieve the content?
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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. But if you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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Sorry repeated questions. I did not create the draft in the beep beep boop editor. It’s extremely disheartening to lose so much laboured-over content. Is there NOTHING at all that wordpress can do? I see several questions on the forum regarding disappearance of at least a day’s worth of work.
Wordpress needs to look into this issue. It seems fairly frequent in its occurrence. -
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Can you link me to the post with your missing content? It sounds like data was still transferring to our servers when your laptop switched off, which caused the new draft not to save properly, but I can take a look and see if I can find anything.
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Hi there,
I’m so sorry for the delay, Shawna has been out of the office.
I took a look in your account and unfortunately it appears that no revisions made it to our server of your work on that post. I wish there was more I could do to help, but if we don’t have the content there isn’t anything which we can do.
I’m sorry!
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I have similar issues here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lost-draft-using-beep-boop-editor?replies=6#post-2175875
Can someone please take a look? Thank you.
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@getsconed – can you please open a new thread for your issue? Both of the threads you posted in are pretty old, so it makes more sense for you to have your own!
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