Page deleted when I updated

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:14 pm

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  When I hit the update button for my page, WordPress uploaded a blank page and clean slated the entire page. Now after nearly an hour of work I have nothing, and I have no way of getting all that data back since WordPress doesn’t even seem to keep a changelog or history of any kind…
  Support for this would be greatly appreciated.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:15 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/

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:15 pm

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  The page that was deleted was: http://hiru21.wordpress.com/how-to-get-around-in-japan/1-trains/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:16 pm

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  Have you restored it from Trash?

  Delete a Page or Post

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:19 pm

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  I created a page, not a post through the pages menu.

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:19 pm

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  I’ll try to look through the trash menu real quick.

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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  Yeah, I have no trash at all (it’s empty).

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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:22 pm

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  Okay the process for Page recovery is the same. Only the links are different.

  You may be able to recover an earlier Page revision. Go to Pages > All Pages, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Page Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-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 Pages > Pages and locate the page and recover it from page revisions.

  If you cannot locate the page and restoring a page 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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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:24 pm

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  Yeah, I have no trash at all (it’s empty).

  Are you positive? I’m asking because there are separate files for posts, pages and uploads.

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:25 pm

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  Ok, cool. Thanks. I was able to find a revision for the page. It’s only about half of what I had but still better than nothing. Thanks a bunch!

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:26 pm

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  Yeah, I looked through all the pages and the trash was empty for everything.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:28 pm

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  Hooray!

  I’m so sorry this happened to you. You may want to use an offline blog editor in the future as then everything you create will be backed-up automatically on your own computer. http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  hiruhiru21 · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:28 pm

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  Ok, thanks for the advice! I will check it out :)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 17, 2012 at 11:30 pm

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  It’s the safe bet when it comes to publishing and not losing anything. Best wishes with your blogging.