I Just Spent An Hour Working On a Post and Now It’s Lost Forever

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  fashionbyjenni · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 12:45 am

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  I finished typing up my post and hit publish and it brings me up to a login screen. I had already logined before and I don’t know why it asked me again. I don’t really care why it asked me, but I am extremely upset it didn’t save and I looked in the drafts which of course didn’t save it. What do I do?

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  fashionbyjenni · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 12:48 am

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  When I look at the drafts it shows up but only the few lines saved :(

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 1:02 am

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  If the data doesn’t make it to the data center and that’s sounds like what may have happened here then I’m sorry to tell you that it’s lost forever.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 1:05 am

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  Below are links to offline blog editors that can be used to create your posts in and publish them into your blog. The advantage of using them is that you always have a back-up copy of every post.

  BlogDesk
  ecto
  Flock
  Lycos-Qumana
  Mars Edit
  QTM
  Qumana
  ScribeFire – firefox addon
  W.bloggar
  Windows Live Writer
  Writetomyblog.com
  Zoundry

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 1:08 am

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  I also wrote a blog post that contains several methods for backing up your data from the moment you begin typing Disaster Planning: Backups for Bloggers

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  fashionbyjenni · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 1:24 am

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  Okay thank you I just ended up rewriting it.

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  fashionbyjenni · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 1:26 am

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  I learned my lesson and am definetly copying onto to another source before I hit publish.

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  atomicthumbs · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 1:44 am

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  For KDE Linux there’s the KBlogger Kicker applet too.

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  badsneaker · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 2:12 am

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  Scribefire works pretty well.
  I use it every so often.
  Great list of links, TT
  
  @Jenni – Cheer up. It happens to all of us at some point.
  Pick up the pen and write something even better.
  ~m

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2007 at 2:32 am

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  I’ve been a BlogDesk user and now I’m a WindowsLiveWriter user. At the very least, if we use the raincoaster work around and copy all the text to our clipboard before we click publish we can avoid these losses.