Where do I find the draft I wrote?
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My draft has disappeared
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Go to Dashboard > Posts > All Posts (Drafts) and 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:
Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. 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/ -
If you cannot locate a revision or restore from Trash the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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Sorry, I closed all the other help tabs. and wont open another… just stay here.
But, my point, as mentioned elsewhere, is that my draft was saved and shared with my friend. We were happy with it and just left it there to be posted when the time was right. It is not there now. It was revised a number of times, and saved. but there seems to be no record of it now. -
OMG, there is good news! I copy/pasted it into an email to my friend. It should be recoverable from there. It comes from a marathon of writing that was an inspiration – it is meant to be.
But there seems a lesson, too – about posting or about WordPress, and I’ll remember to follow my same procedure. It would be very odd if 2 services lost the same piece! I am learning –
Apparently – Do Not Trust a Draft to wait… (how do others do it? people have said that is their regular practice!) -
That is great news! I recommend that you use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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You ROCK, timethief!! I suspect this tumult was the result of doing exactly that and then forgetting I did it. Thank you for weathering the storm with me and being so very supportive and steady. I had visions of scenes from the Life of Pi! You are BEDROCK!!
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