Why Are My Posts Deleting Themselves When Saving as a Draft?

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  vakendra · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 12:45 am

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  This is the second time in less than a week I’ve been working on editing posts (imported from Typepad) and when saving a draft, it deletes all of my work and results in a saved blank post that I cannot recover.
  Blog url: http://kendratoo.wordpress.com/

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 8:51 am

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  Can you point us to a specific post title where this happened?
  We’ll see if we can find the content for you or understand why this happened.

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  vakendra · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 4:01 pm

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  Thank you for the response! The post is located here: http://kendratoo.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/three-fox-vineyards/

  It’s marked as “pending” so I’m not sure if you’ll be able to see it.

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 4:30 pm

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  I’m not sure what happened, but the good news is that the content of that post was saved in a previous revision, and I restored it for you.
  This is actually something you can do – and the following support document will show you how, in case it happens again:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

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  vakendra · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 4:42 pm

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  Thank you! I learned about revisions last night and even after using one of my earlier revisions, when I went to save it, it saved as “blank”…again. I’ll give this a shot. If all else fails, I might just re-create the post.

  Thanks again for your help.

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Jan 19, 2012 at 10:57 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need anymore help. :-)