missing posts from draft

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  kterzieva · Member · Jan 10, 2013 at 2:22 am

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  I tried to post my first post and unfortunately it’s been a disaster so far – I’m trying to include some photos in the post and after saving a draft I went back and tried to edit. Not only the post was just pulling photos from my library without even me authorizing or selecting it, but also my original post is gone along with the writing on it. So far this experience has not been what was originally referred to as easy…

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  timethief · Member · Jan 10, 2013 at 2:25 am

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  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

  Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
  http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

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

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  kterzieva · Member · Jan 10, 2013 at 2:53 am

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  thank you – this is extremely useful. I wasn’t able to recover the original post and truthfully not sure how I went about creating it. However, I did follow your advice on going through the dashboard > add new – and it seemed to work this time. Also I will certainly create back ups in case. Thank you very much again

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  timethief · Member · Jan 10, 2013 at 2:55 am

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  You’re welcome and best wishes for happy blogging.