Issue with the new "New Post" format

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  syncreticmystic · Member · Feb 3, 2013 at 8:59 pm

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  I lost a draft of a post using the new “New Post” interface even though I hit save draft often. When I went into my drafts on the dashboard, this post was not there, and hitting back on my browser did not bring back the text.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2013 at 9:31 pm

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  Please be sure you are running one of the browser versions here http://browsehappy.com first.

  You may be able to recover an earlier 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

  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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  syncreticmystic · Member · Feb 3, 2013 at 9:52 pm

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  To clarify, I was using the WordPress.com new post function, saved it multiple times, had a title, and nothing I wrote on that post saved. The post did not end up in the trash either. I find it distressing to think that I cannot use this function to make a draft and be able to come back to it at a later time. Most of the time I used dashboard but in this case I tried something different. and I will never be using it again.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2013 at 10:03 pm

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  I’m so sorry this happened to you. :(

  I never ever use “New Post” on what’s referred to by Staff as the “new dash”. I log-in directly to my own blogs and create all posts and pages on their dashboards.

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  syncreticmystic · Member · Feb 3, 2013 at 10:07 pm

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  I hope that they clear up this issue then.