Lost Work
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Hi folks,
Bluesphinx here. I am new to blogging, and wordpress. Last night I spent three hours putting together a blog, introducing myself to the wordpress community, and I have to say that to me it looked really good.
Then I got called away so I pressed the ‘save’ button on the page.(But I did not log off, or turn off the computer) I returned an hour or so later, and added the rest of the work-now it was looking REALLY good!
I was no more than a coulpe of sentences away from a finished article when…disaster! My computer crashed. I lost the wordpress website, and was back only with my desktop staring me in the face. I couldn’t believe it! Fearing the worst, I logged on to wordpress again in the forlorn hope of finding my lost work, but as I suspected, I cannot find the page that I was working on ANYWHERE.
This is a last-ditch appeal before resigning myself to having to start again from scratch with what WILL be an infereior second attempt.
Can anybody out there advise me or tell me where the work MIGHT be? I have searched the site but I am hoping that it might be a simple case of not being able to see the wood for the trees.
I will be off away to work almost immediately after writing this cry for help, so I will not be able to read or respond to any replies before seven p.m. this evening. -
Log in and open the post you were working on for edit and then go to the bottom of the page where it says “post revisions” and expand that bar. You should be able to recover most of your work in the latest revision listed there.
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Do you have a wordpress.com free blog or a wordpress.org blog where you downloaded and installed the software on your own host?
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Thank you both for your advice. I cannot find the work, but have now re-written it and posted it out on the website. In future I will write my pieces on microsoft word, cut and paste onto wordpress, and therefore always have a back-up in case of future problems.
Kind regards,
Bluesphinx. -
Yes of course you should have a backup, but DON’T paste directly from Word:
Use a simple text editor (e.g. Notepad), or Live Writer. If you do have to paste from Word, do it via the “Paste from Word” or the “Paste as Plain Text” buttons.
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