Where's my saved draft?!

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  3genabroad · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 12:32 am

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  I wrote a post, saved draft, then imported images. I didn’t like the images, so I clicked delete, and it deleted the whole post, and now the saved draft isn’t showing up anywhere. And this isn’t user-friendly. Help!

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  3genabroad · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 12:33 am

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  I wrote a post, saved draft, then imported images. I didn’t like the images, so I clicked delete, and it deleted the whole post, and now the saved draft isn’t showing up anywhere. And this isn’t user-friendly. Help!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 12:48 am

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  Well, you deleted it. It’s in your Trash file. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/

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  3genabroad · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 2:11 am

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  Thanks for trying to help. I got that it was in the trash, but since it was just a saved draft, and not a trashed published post, there was seemingly no way to access it in the trash. There was no way to ‘edit’ a trashed ‘saved draft’. So I rewrote it. And now I ‘save draft’ multiple times, and right click ‘copy’ it, to be safe.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 2:34 am

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  Are you saying this did notwork? Restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

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  3genabroad · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 2:47 am

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  Yes. The advice didn’t help. Here’s the advice given:
  Enter the Trash status/folder of either your posts, or pages and place your cursor over any item you wish to restore.

  Since the draft never posted, there is no trash status/folder to enter, or item to put my cursor over. Apparently the draft didn’t really save, because of a glitch or something. I’m moving on.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 2:50 am

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  I recommend:

  1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
     Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New as 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
  2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
  3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
  4. 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.
  5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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  3genabroad · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 10:12 pm

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  Thanks. That’s a super helpful answer. I’m going to save the draft immediately after writing the title, and obsessively after. Lesson learned.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 10:15 pm

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  I’m sorry this happened to you. I’ve had it happen to and that’s why I never create any posts at https://wordpress.com/post/
  Best wishes for happier endings in the future.