Where do I find a draft that's not showing up as saved?
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This is the second time something like this has happened: I typed up a post – it was fairly long – and was saving as I went. When I finished, I tried to post it, but the page just said “unauthoriazed” in red at the top. I didn’t know what that mean, so I tried to post it again and it gave me the same message. A bit worried, I tried to save the material, and then the page redirected to the login page (even though “keep me signed in” is checked. I lost my whole post. I checked under posts and under drafts and it’s not there. It should have saved or at least auto-saved, but I don’t see it anywhere, and I’m quite distraught because I really don’t want to lose that material, and I want even less to have to try to recreate it all. I was saving as I go, so at the very least I should be able to find most, if not all of it, somewhere. It has to be somewhere. What do I do?
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How many username accounts do you have/
Exactly which one registered the blog your are trying to publish on?You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard to create and publish a post on it.
If you were logged in properly under the correct username account that registered the blog in question, and 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(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 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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Thank you for trying to help, but actually none ofthese apply, because: (1) I only have one username account, (2) the post was never published, nor is it showing up among my drafts, so visiting revisions or trash for any post does not help at all.
If you were logged in properly under the correct username account that registered the blog in question, and 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.
I was logged in properly, the post was created using “new post” in this manner: Dashboard > Blog > New Post, but I still see no trace of the material. As I typed it was reportedly auto-saving, and I even saved manually a couple of times. This really shouldn’t have happened, and I don’t know where else to go to look for the material. I was so close to copying the whole thing to have it held on my clipboard before trying to post – and I usually do this – but this time I didn’t remember until the moment the page was redirecting and it was too late. After the fact when I tried to past, I discovered that only a piece of the post, which I had copied and pasted in the course of writing the post, had been held on the clipboard. I also had the next three posts on an offline editor waiting for me to write the initial piece, but I trusted the draft saving function with the initial piece, and that’s what I have now lost. I don’t know what went wrong.
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When I finished, I tried to post it, but the page just said “unauthoriazed” in red at the top.
If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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Hi there,
Timethief may be right, but there’s something else I’d like you to take a look at as well. Every once in a while if you had another tab or even another window open and were viewing another blog entry, our autosave feature can get confused. It will “autosave” to that other entry rather than to the new post which you are working on.
Could you go through any other blog posts which you have (especially any ones which you may have had open at the same time you were working) and see if it is showing up in the drafts? That might be what happened in this case.
If not, like I said earlier, Timethief is sadly correct and the post did not save for some reason and is lost. For that I am very sorry.
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