Where Are My Revisions?
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I have been working for five hours. I clicked to save my draft. I think I had done that previously this morning, but possibly not. I got a message saying something like, “Are you sure you want to do this?” I clicked the back arrow. My revisions were gone. According to the list at the bottom of the page, there has been no revision in the past ten hours. How can I recover my work?
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Try going to your “posts” page in your dashboard and see if it shows up there. (Unless you were working on a page, then go to your “pages” tab.) If there is an auto-save of your work you should be able to find it by re-opening the draft page from that menu.
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Thanks, Liz. That’s the surprising thing: there is no autosave from all of those hours of work. It takes me back to where I was last night, more than 10 hours ago. No reminder of an autosave at the top of the page, and no list of autosaves at the bottom. Just the list of revisions.
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Correction. The revisions are from 11 PM on June 29, nearly 36 hours ago. There are no saved revisions from yesterday. Very strange!
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I’m afraid you probably lost everything then. If you could remember what you were doing when you got the error message and what it said exactly that might help, but maybe not.
I would recommend in the future when you get an unexpected error message, click “cancel” rather than the back arrow. Sometimes the back arrow circumvents the safety measures sites put into place to help keep you from losing your work.
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It is a loss. If you have a favorite help page explaining autosaves, that would be a plus. Thank you again for your help.
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Before you give up all hope, there are some additional places to check here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/autosaves-but-then-there-are-no-drafts?replies=3
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Have you looked in your Trash? See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash
If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
I recommend:
Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add NewAlways allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
Click “save draft” frequently when creating posts or pages.
Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it. Save it properly and return to edit it later.
Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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Thanks for those suggestions. Having lost additional hours to discouragement, futile problemsolving, and regathering of materials to redo the original work, I point out that the thread to which Liz directs me indicates that this problem was known at least a year and a half ago and still has not been fixed.
For some reason, I am not seeing the Trash depiction described in that previous thread. I appreciate the new set of suggestions offered by Timethief, though most don’t apply here. I still don’t understand, however, why no autosave was created during a period of 36 hours.
The suggestion of using an offline editor is the one that does apply. Unfortunately, offline editors have their own drawbacks. Regardless, WordPress continues to suffer from poor backup capabilities. To turn the offline editor suggestion around, if I am able to achieve reliable backups on my own computer, why would a corporation devoted to blogging not be able to achieve reliable backups on theirs?
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You’re a sweetheart for following up, Timethief, but, sad to say, it’s not there. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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Aw, it’s all in a day’s work. The rewrite was better. Could have used the extra hours, but that’s the way it goes. Thanks again.
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