WHY GOD WHY
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I just wrote a thing, it wasn’t a very good thing, but it was a thing that took me three hours and was over 3k words. Fairly impressive, if I do say so myself. Well, I was writing in non-distraction mode, and after I finished, switched to regular so I can utilize the edit function before posting. As I hit “cancel” to help me do this, something went horribly, terribly wrong. I got a screen that asked me “are you sure you want to do this?” and I was all, “uh, yeah. Edit me!” and when I clicked on the thing that allows me to do this, my draft was completely gone. Done. Ceased to exit. Vanished. Is my post in the Bermuda Triangle now? I hit “back” on my browser, hoping that would make my thing reappear. Nope. I went to my drafts because hey, this thing auto-saves drafts as you type! Wrong. Not there.
I’m not a good writer. I don’t like calling myself a “writer” even, as I attribute that word to success and those able to form coherent sentences. But goddamn it, you guys, I spent a lot of time on this, it was a pretty decent idea (my mom would have read the SHIT out of this), and it’s gone. And the shit of it is, this isn’t the first time this has happened, either. But it had been a very long time since my post got lost like a sock in the dryer and my confidence in this site was restored. I regret my naivety.
If there’s anything you can do to help me, which I highly doubt there is anything you can do to help me except offer a feeble “aw snap!” but if there’s anything you can do to help me, that’d be great. If there isn’t, and please don’t take this the wrong way, but I hope every single one of you steps on like, a million Legos.
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I got a screen that asked me “are you sure you want to do this?” and I was all, “uh, yeah. Edit me!” and when I clicked on the thing that allows me to do this, my draft was completely gone. … I went to my drafts because hey, this thing auto-saves drafts as you type! Wrong. Not there.
Provided you did not create the post in the new Beep Beep Boop editor where it’s saved only on your browser, and is not auto-saved to the servers for your blog I can help you with this.
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/)
I recommend:
1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
2. Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
3. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.
4. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
5. 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.
6. 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 then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.
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I’m afraid there is nothing we can do to help you. And gee, thanks for the kind thoughts. Were you somehow under the impression that volunteers in the forum created the software?
I know how to prevent this from happening again. It’s a known issue, has been around for a couple of years. But you weren’t very nice to me, were you?
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