Lost draft

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  zeliazatelier · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 3:24 pm

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  Hi there,
  I have been working on the draft of my next blog post for two days. A couple of failure notices popped up when saving like: ‘are you sure you want to do this?’ but I have eventually managed to save … or so it seemed.

  Just now, after two hours of work, I tried to view before publishing. I realized that my work was not saved … and in fact had not been for two days! I thought that there was an automatic save, also.

  Grief.

  Is there any way of retrieving my work from an hour ago?

  How can I avoid this happening again?
  Why did this happen?
  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 3:29 pm

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  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  Do not create them here > http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

  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

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  zeliazatelier · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 3:41 pm

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  Thank you for your quick response and advice.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 3:43 pm

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  You’re welcome a good luck with this.

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  justpi · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 5:34 pm

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  This is an ongoing bug with drafts, so simply don’t use drafts at all. When you start a new post, enter the title, type a couple of words, set the visibility to private, click Update. Continue editing and updating, turn to public when finished.

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  zeliazatelier · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 5:44 pm

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  Great, thanks for the tip.

  That seems to make sense, as does ‘timethief’s’ suggestion to publish first on the pc then transfer: a good habit to get into in general.

  What a drag to lose the work though.

  Thanks again!