how do I retrieve edits from viewing post in preview post option

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  pursuingtenzingnorgay · Member · Aug 23, 2013 at 5:42 pm

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  okay, i’m a little freaked out so pardon my urgency. I just edited the last post on my blog, selected the preview post option, previewed the post and then selected the edit option from the preview and all my editing is gone and the original post is all thats available.
  please tell me there is a way to retrieve my edits, thank you in advance.
  Namaste

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  timethief · Member · Aug 23, 2013 at 5:45 pm

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  Are you referring to a post or to a page?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  If and only 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/