missing words!

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  dotty69 · Member · Feb 28, 2013 at 11:37 pm

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  sat typing this afternoon, saw that it was “auto saved” as I went…hit publish…saw it had posted…when I went back to show a mum later on all the words had gone and just the photos were theere?!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 28, 2013 at 11:40 pm

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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 you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  dotty69 · Member · Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 pm

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  Thank you for replying so quickly!

  Having gone through the steps to see if it was saved…I couldn’t find it!
  I did read it after I’d hit publish…sorry…update. It was there! And now it’s just gone. Aaarrgghhh!!
  Not sure about the second part about the way I posted. I’d uploaded the photos from my phone then went into my blog and used the edit button.
  Debbie

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 12:01 am

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  I’m sorry but if you cannot locate it in your Trash and restore it then it cannot be recovered.

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  dotty69 · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 12:16 am

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  But surely if it auto saved it should actually auto save?
  Is it a bug or something? I see I’m not the first.
  Just very frustrated that I spent so much time trying to get it right to then find that even though it said autosave at the bottom of the screen it didn’t actually do it!
  Sorry….
  Thank you for your replies.
  :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 12:21 am

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  Autosave works well if you create posts in your own blog’s dashboard.
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  If you create posts here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ it doesn’t.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 12:24 am

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  One safeguard you can do is to register a new email address and using that, Subscribe to your blog. That way when things go out, you get the full version that goes out on the RSS feed, even if the blog itself craps out on you.