WordPress.com Forums » Tag: save draft - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/save-draft WordPress.com Forums » Tag: save draft - Recent Posts en Sat, 25 May 2013 09:49:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1254240 Fri, 03 May 2013 15:02:43 +0000 timethief 1254240@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have been there too and I'm so sorry this happened to you.

]]> crow011 on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1254175 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:19:56 +0000 crow011 1254175@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am absolutely livid. The same thing just happened to me.

]]> x4ashes4ashes on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1218858 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:02:26 +0000 x4ashes4ashes 1218858@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I did not create the post through: Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New, but I will do that from now on.

]]> timethief on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1218397 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:46:48 +0000 timethief 1218397@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @x4ashes4ashes
There is a long standing issue Staff are addressing in the next upgrade.

The new auto-save system arriving very soon will keep that from ever happening. Keep your eyes on http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ for the announcement.

You may be able to recover a 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

Did you create your post on the dashboard of your own blog?
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New

Or did you create your post on the front page of WordPress.com?
http://wordpress.com/#!/post/

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/

]]> x4ashes4ashes on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1218393 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:45:22 +0000 x4ashes4ashes 1218393@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was continually working on the draft the entire time - I never put my computer into standby or hibernation.

I did realize that before it happened both times I pasted a GIF into the draft instead of going through the uploader. I had never done that before, just tried it on a whim and saw that it worked. it's possible that that is the point at which the drafts no longer saved and everything was wiped away. Is pasting an image instead of uploading an image known to cause problems?

I'm not certain that pasting the GIF was the cause, I just realized as I was thinking about it lasts night that it was possibly related.

]]> danielisreading on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1217377 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:42:00 +0000 danielisreading 1217377@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've had that happen to me before a few times (didn't learn from the first time). It seems to happen after I hibernate my computer, and then reawaken it. If I've had the post editor open, and then continue to work in it, and then press save, it comes up with "do you really want to do that?" or something similar. Then if you go back, everything is still gone. (A similar thing happens with Youtube videos after hibernation, you have to reload the page to continue watching).

I'm sure there's some technical reason behind it all, but I just know that to avoid this, just refresh the page, or better yet, close all wordpress tabs before hibernating, that way it won't be an issue. Of course, w you could use an offline-editor to write you posts, so you'll always have a copy on your own computer. See here for more information: http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

If this isn't relevant to what happened to you, sorry. But I know from experience that when that page comes up, I don't think there's a way to find it again. The revision wasn't saved, so it doesn't really exist. Sorry.

]]> x4ashes4ashes on "Save draft - everything disappears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-everything-disappears#post-1217322 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:38:45 +0000 x4ashes4ashes 1217322@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I had been working on a post, and had been regularly saving by clicking on the "save" button while in distraction-free mode. I left distraction-free mode, and then clicked "save draft", and my entire post, except for the title, disappeared. The draft remained, but all of the content was gone. I went back to look at my revisions. The most recent couple of revisions - 3 or 4 - were all blank as well. But before that the content had saved properly. I resumed working on the post from that earlier successful saved draft, but then it happened again several hours later, exactly the same.

I made a draft without any problems a little over a month ago.

I am using Firefox as my browser. After it happened for the first time, I disabled all of my add-ons and extensions, though I didn't have any related to WordPress. I deleted my cookies and cache. This didn't make any difference, since it happened again.

I'm not sure what to do or what's wrong.

The only time I've ever had a problem before was when I made a huge post several years ago with a ton of large GIFs and HQ images. The post I'm working on right now contains quite a few images but not nearly as many as that other post, and I'm still in the middle of it, not towards the end.

Please help!

I'm not very savvy, I don't have any WordPress plug-ins and I haven't messed around with anything except simple things like changing my header and arranging my widgets.

]]> linuxfag on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210993 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:09:47 +0000 linuxfag 1210993@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ PROBLEM SOLVED, whew! I needed to reopen the "publish" bar. Now the "save draft" and "preview" buttons are back. Never had the "publish" bar closed, so when I accidentally closed it, I had no idea what just happened.

]]> thesacredpath on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210987 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:08:00 +0000 thesacredpath 1210987@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you are on a Mac, the visual editor should respond to cmd-s for saving a post. Then you can switch to a different page and back to the editor and the buttons should have come back.

]]> timethief on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210979 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:03:56 +0000 timethief 1210979@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm sorry but from this end of things we have no idea what the blogger's computing environment may be. I tagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

]]> linuxfag on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210973 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:01:10 +0000 linuxfag 1210973@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, of course I have 3rd party cookies enabled. Those buttons disappeared when I inadvertently clicked on them so my mouse cursor dragged them off the screen when I moved my finger on the trackpad. It was so quick, it happened in a flash. Surely there must be some way to recover from this.

]]> timethief on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210962 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:55:36 +0000 timethief 1210962@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ See http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/

]]> timethief on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210960 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:55:07 +0000 timethief 1210960@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Do you have third party cookies enabled?

]]> linuxfag on ""Save draft" button disappeared!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-disappeared#post-1210958 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:53:44 +0000 linuxfag 1210958@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In the middle of composing my latest entry, suddenly the "save draft" and "preview" buttons disappeared. I believe this happened when my finger slipped on the touchpad...and it dragged those buttons away (somehow). I use sticky keys, so the left button of the trackpad stays active the first time it's clicked upon. This sometimes, causes other problems.

I can't find any way to get them back.

]]> chesapklady on "Where does it go when I "Save Draft" and it doesn't?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/where-does-it-go-when-i-save-draft-and-it-doesnt#post-1085366 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:37:44 +0000 chesapklady 1085366@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am NOT computer illiterate. WordPress gets high marks in the reviews of blogging software so I chose it for my blog, but I find it impossible to "get" where things are, how to get things where you want them to be, and then . . . you think it's all okay, you've got it pretty much the way you want it, then you "Save Draft. . . " and it's gone. NOTHING LEFT but one or two pictures. I am NOT stupid. Why is this so difficult???

]]> timethief on "Preview/Save draft DELETES EVERYTHING" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/previewsave-draft-deletes-everything#post-860877 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:54:17 +0000 timethief 860877@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @shantalrenee
May I suggest that you use an offline blog editor? Using one to create your posts and pages in and to publish from to your blog means you will have a backup of everything you create on your own computer.

]]> justpi on "Preview/Save draft DELETES EVERYTHING" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/previewsave-draft-deletes-everything#post-860872 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:47:52 +0000 justpi 860872@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This issue keeps being reported ever since the latest major updates. Avoid using drafts: when you create a new post, write a couple of words, turn the visibility to private, publish the post, keep writing and updating, turn to public when finished.

]]> timethief on "Preview/Save draft DELETES EVERYTHING" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/previewsave-draft-deletes-everything#post-860818 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:59:43 +0000 timethief 860818@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please try these:
clearing your browser cache and cookies > http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050
using the browser with all extensions or add-ons disabled
updating the browser to the latest stable vesrion (not a buggy BETA browser version) http://browsehappy.com/
confirming third party cookies is enabled http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61416
confirming JavaScript is enabled http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12654
resetting your router and modem and rebooting your computer
trying another browser

There have been issue with Chrome browsers.
Exactly which browser and version of it are you using. If you don’t know click here to find out > http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

]]> shantalrenee on "Preview/Save draft DELETES EVERYTHING" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/previewsave-draft-deletes-everything#post-860781 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:18:01 +0000 shantalrenee 860781@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://smartiepops.wordpress.com

]]> timethief on "Preview/Save draft DELETES EVERYTHING" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/previewsave-draft-deletes-everything#post-860775 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:11:59 +0000 timethief 860775@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there,
There's no blog linked to your username. Please provide an active link starting with http:// to the blog in question.

]]> shantalrenee on "Preview/Save draft DELETES EVERYTHING" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/previewsave-draft-deletes-everything#post-860769 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:08:13 +0000 shantalrenee 860769@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've written the same post twice now only to have the entire thing DELETED both times. The first time I thought I must have hit something accidentally and re-wrote the entire thing from memory. Then I hit "Preview" and the whole blog went blank, save the title. As you can imagine this is EXTREMELY frustrating. I don't want to write it again because I don't have time and it might be pointless. Can someone please help me figure out what's wrong? In case it matters I'm on a Mac 10.6 and using Firefox 11.0.

]]> establishingshots on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-784423 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:00:14 +0000 establishingshots 784423@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I thought the autosave feature was saving it often, since it kept saying "saving draft" at the bottom, but apparently not. I won't make the mistake of typing a post directly into WordPress again, but I spent hours on the one that was eaten and it's really frustrating that I can't recover it, especially since trying to save it was what caused this mess in the first place.

]]> 1tess on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-784239 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:04:01 +0000 1tess 784239@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It is good to save drafts early and often. It is also good practice to select all and copy before saving a draft.

]]> establishingshots on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-784113 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:03:22 +0000 establishingshots 784113@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, I did that. It's enabled, it just isn't there when I go to edit the post. Apparently all that saved was the title.

]]> airodyssey on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-784099 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:48:05 +0000 airodyssey 784099@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If the module isn't showing up, check your Screen Options on the top right corner.

]]> establishingshots on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-784095 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:40:39 +0000 establishingshots 784095@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The module isn't showing up, which I assume means the autosave didn't work either. Thanks anyway.

]]> airodyssey on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-784075 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:16:58 +0000 airodyssey 784075@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. Does this help?
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/content-of-post-deleted-when-i-save-draft?replies=4

]]> establishingshots on "Save Draft button wiped out my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/save-draft-button-wiped-out-my-post#post-783190 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:31:06 +0000 establishingshots 783190@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just spent hours on a post, then, foolishly thinking the "save draft" button would somehow actually SAVE MY DRAFT, I clicked it. Now the entire thing is gone. Is there anything I can do to get it back?

]]> timethief on "Publish blog entry, but content "disappears"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publish-blog-entry-but-content-disappears#post-777767 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:00:31 +0000 timethief 777767@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just though of something else. It could be that one of your Firefox add-ons or extensions is causing the problem. You would be able to confirm if that's the case or not by disabling them and then trying again.

]]> timethief on "Publish blog entry, but content "disappears"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publish-blog-entry-but-content-disappears#post-777766 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:58:58 +0000 timethief 777766@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm glad to hear that you have a means of posting now but I prefer Firefox as well.

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