Lost about 3 to 4 hours of writing
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Hi,
I’m pretty disappointed, I wrote a blog for about 4 hours and I save it, publish it, and it actually erased everything I wrote, even the oldest version. I cannot find a backup, only a little basis I made 8 hours ago, after that it says my last version from minutes ago is empty… How… I hope I didn’t lost everything. Thanks for the help :/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Is this the site http://greenalternative549199911.wordpress.com/?
The Admin login link to the dashboard of that site is
http://greenalternative549199911.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
The saved draft posts are found at
http://greenalternative549199911.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=postThe saved draft pages are found at
http://greenalternative549199911.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=pageStaff are working on improving post and page revisions. The most recent 25 revisions are available for posts and pages.
If you cannot restore from your browser, or locate a revision, or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
re: recovering a lost post or page
If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Pages > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needed.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/page-revisions/See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash
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Nop there’s absolutely nothing I can do, I have 7 revisions and the last one I published, it’s like i’ve erased everything leaving the content empty.
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Hi there,
What is the title of the post? I only see one post on your site, and it was published 14 hours ago, while you only created this thread 5 hours ago.
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Hi,
started the blog yesterday and my first thread was named, My experience at Earthaven ecovillage. It might not be visible anymore, I tried to recover it many times without success and put it into draft.
There’s something i’m wondering. They say it’s supposed to save automatically as we write, then where are those saves if I spent 4 hours writing and can only find the last recover from 5 hours ago or so?
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my first thread was named, My experience at Earthaven ecovillage
I see both a scheduled post and a draft post with that title in your posts list.
https://greenalternative549199911.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php
If you edit a post there and you click on the Revisions option in the box top right, you can see all previous auto-saved versions of the post. We’re working on bringing that revision history into the new editor as well.
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Yes I still have the intro, but I lost my 4 hours writing that I can’t find in any Revision. Like it saved an empty page. But whatever I rewrite it all. I’m taking precaution by now and I write it on Pages first so that I have a permanent copy on my desktop.
Thanks for your help anyway! -
That is very strange – it’s not possible to delete revisions, though it’s possible (if unlikely) that autosave completely failed. I’ll keep an eye out for similar reports, in case a recent update introduced a bug with the autosave feature.
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This is what happened, no doubt ( failed autosave ). I was writing on the Mac application of wordpress if that can help…
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Thanks for the extra info. If it was in the desktop app I wonder if there might not have been a connection problem that prevented the app from syncing with the web. That’s definitely not something we want to have happen, though, so I’ll see if I can replicate this problem along with keeping my eyes peeled for more reports, and report it to our developers to fix if I can confirm.
Sorry for your lost content that we can’t restore, but thanks for taking the time to provide me more info to help troubleshoot this!
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