What happened to my blog post?

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  thegoodpatriot · Member · Sep 12, 2012 at 6:26 pm

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  I’ve just spent the last few hours typing up a new post, frequently hitting the “save draft” button as I went. When I finally tried to publish the post, everything but the title had disappeared. I tried looking in my drafts page but it was gone. What happened? Why I have just lost several hours of my life? I don’t want to have to re-write and edit this post. Anyone have any suggestions?
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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2012 at 6:29 pm

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  If were using the “Add New” on the main page for wordpress.com here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ then the draft is lost and cannot be recovered. That link is only for creating “Asides”:

  Aside – These are brief snippets of text that aren’t quite whole blog posts. Useful for quick thoughts and anecdotes http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/

  But if you created the post on your own dashboard there may be a happy ending. http://thegoodpatriot.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

  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

  Advice:
  1.Create posts and pages on your own blog’s dashboard.

  2. When you start a new post, add the title, set it to private and then publish it. When you are done with the post edit it to update it and set it back to publish.

  3. The other choice is to get and use an offline blog client such as Windows Live Writer (Windows) or Ecto (Mac) and then everything is saved on your computer and when you are done with the post, you actually publish it directly from the blog client software. See here for offline blog editors so you don’t have to go through this again http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc