My draft that was saved and everything suddenly vanished.

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  barborakudlickova · Member · Jan 24, 2015 at 4:54 pm

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  I finished writing my draft, saved it, closed the window. I opened a new tab, opened my account, got to the drafts section and the draft is not there anymore. Is there still any help or the net simply ate my draft? tx

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  timethief · Member · Jan 24, 2015 at 4:56 pm

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  Hi there,
  Provided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog you may be able to recover a lost post or page.

  If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  To locate draft POSTS Dashboard > Posts > All Post > Drafts
  http://czechmenu.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  To locate draft PAGES Dashboard > Pages> All Pages > Drafts
  http://czechmenu.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

  (If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)

  If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

  I recommend:

  1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
  2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
  3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
  4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
  5. Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. Save it properly and return to edit it later.
  6. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  barborakudlickova · Member · Jan 24, 2015 at 7:44 pm

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  Thank you for your kind advice. Unfortunately I did write my Draft in the new editor so I guess my text is lost. But thank you for the tips, I will not risk it again. May you have a nice time, thank you for your time.