Why did all of my work disappear, when it was saved as I was writing it?

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  kbs0 · Member · May 24, 2013 at 6:37 pm

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  I just typed up an entire assignment for a class that requires us to use wordpress. I published it, all 787 words of it, and it was nowhere to be found. Is there any way to recover everything that I wrote, or do I have to start all over again??

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  bewitchedbedazzled · Member · May 24, 2013 at 7:33 pm

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  same happened to me with my first blog

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2013 at 7:42 pm

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  WordPress.com has an autosave feature and you may be able to recover an earlier post revision. Go to Posts > All Posts, hover over the title of the post, click Edit and check the Post Revisions module for previous saved versions of the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

  If you’re not seeing the Revisions module while on the editor screen, click Screen Options (top right corner of your Admin page) http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ to activate it. Then select the post and page modules to include them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules Then you ought to be able to go here > Dashboard > All Posts > Posts and locate the post and recover it from post revisions.

  If you cannot locate the post for locating and restoring a post revision, and it’s not in your Trash folder http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/ then you will not be able to recover it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2013 at 7:42 pm

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  Advice:
  Create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog
  Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

  Or use an offline blog editor so you always have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  auxclass · Member · May 24, 2013 at 7:51 pm

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  In addition to all of the above – one of the first things I do after starting a new Post is to Save Draft, and I tend to save often

  Sometimes I will write in a Word Processing (Open Office) when I need a hard copy for editing. Then I will paste into the Text box option (2nd row down) that strips all the formatting & html out of the document so I then need to format the Post

  I have also used offline blog editors

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2013 at 7:56 pm

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  @auxclass
  I am chronic saver too. I type a title for a draft post and save. I type a couple of sentences and save and so it goes with saving at the end of every paragraph until I’m ready to publish.