WordPress malfunctioned and I lost a post.

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  dfconnelly22 · Member · Oct 20, 2012 at 5:39 am

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  HOW CAN I RETRIEVE A LOST POST
  Wordpress malfunctioned and I lost a post. It told me unauthorized request when I went to publish and then post was gone. I’m very bummed.
  Blog url: http://danandcedar.wordpress.com/

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 20, 2012 at 11:16 pm

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  If you created that post using the “Add New” on the main page for wordpress.com here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/ then what you describe can happen and worse still the draft posts may be lost and may not be recoverable.

  If you created the post in your dashboard here > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you may be able to recover an earlier post revision. http://danandcedar.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php/

  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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  dfconnelly22 · Member · Oct 20, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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  Thanks. I think I am SOL. But I appreciate the response.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 20, 2012 at 11:30 pm

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  We are getting reports of this happening a fair bit lately. If you write long posts, it seems to happen more. So I recommend using an offline editor like BlogDesk, Ecto, or Windows Live Writer until this bug is fixed.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 20, 2012 at 11:33 pm

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  The developers are aware of the issue. The next WordPress software upgrade is probably going to take place in early November for us here at WordPress.com so I do expect that issue will be corrected in it.