How have I lost my content?

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  geraldinelay · Member · Apr 5, 2013 at 2:09 pm

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  I wrote a post this morning and published it (or thought I had) – heading was Do you know someone who suffers from Eczema?

  I noticed a mistake and went to Edit to correct it – but when it opened most of the text had gone.

  Is there something I have done right – and can I get it back?

  Thanks, Geraldine

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  timethief · Member · Apr 5, 2013 at 6:09 pm

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  You may be able to recover a post revision. 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/

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  geraldinelay · Member · Apr 7, 2013 at 7:51 am

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  Thank you. :-)