How do I stop losing work?

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  missygmcintosh · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 7:00 am

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  I was in the middle of a post when the servers crapped out. Despite saving the post a few minutes before, all of my work on it is gone. I am pretty annoyed, as you can imagine. This is not the first time it has happened to me. If you could let me know how to retrieve my work, please let me know. I’ve also had trouble with my work not saving when I go in to a post to make edits. Sometimes, I find myself making the same edits 3-4 times before it “takes.” Any tricks that I’m missing?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 8:09 am

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  Use an offline blog editor like Windows Live Writer.

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  mikedariano · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 12:33 pm

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  Windows Live Writer is a great download, I second that.

  Missy, have you looked into the post revisions feature? http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

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  missygmcintosh · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 4:29 pm

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  Thanks everyone for your advice. I didn’t know about the post revisions feature. That is great (although my edits for this post are still mysteriously missing)!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2013 at 4:32 pm

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  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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  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 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

  Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
  http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  
  Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/