Publishing snafu
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I completed a long post and hit “publish” like I always do. I got a screen I have never seen before, which said “Are you sure you want to do this?” with a “try again” button. The post disappeared, There is no trace of it, The previous draft, just a title and one sentence, was saved, but not the 800 words I wrote afterwards, This is a disaster. Where did it go? What does that screen mean? What an I supposed to do when I see it? Is the post anywhere I can retrieve it? How do I know that won’t happen again?
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Hi there,
This usually does not happen except in a couple of cases:
1) When your edit page loaded, for some reason the autosave feature did not load or became disabled (a javascript error of some sort) and when you went to post there was some other or further error which caused it to not publish correctly. This doesn’t happen often and unfortunately if it is the cause there’s no way to get your post back.
2) If you were composing your post and had opened at the same time another tab or window with a different post, then the autosave will sometimes save revisions to that post instead. When you go to post, an error occurs and there are of course no revisions because they’ve been going to that other post. If you had another post open, go and check the revision history of that post and you may find your entire post there.
Best of luck to you!
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The first explanation appears to be what happened. The incident was preceded by an inability to add a photo to the post—I kept getting error messages. Then I decided to go ahead and post without the photo—big mistake. Poof! No post.
Thanks for the response.
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