Since March I’ve been working on a post, one of those list kind I added to as ideas flashed into my mind. While tweaking and editing it last night, the entire thing vanishes into the wild blue cyber-yonder. Van-i-shes, I tell you. And after throwing away all of my one thousand hard earned words, my computer had the audacity to immediately autosave the new empty draft.
I wanted to scream. To curse. To throw my laptop out my second story window.
I did two out of three.
After hunting and searching and coming up empty, I sat down to rewrite as much as was still fresh in my memory. I scratched down a few things, but the words just weren’t coming. In frustration I slammed my laptop shut. Then it occurred to me I might not be the only one who has faced this injustice. So, I resolutely opened the laptop again and googled “rescue deleted blog draft.” Lo and behold, google came through and showed me how to recover up to 25 of my latest revisions. Oh, sweet Jesus, was I ever thankful.
Let it be said that google covers a multitude of sins.
My post wasn’t lost, it was just playing hide and seek. Thankfully I had the tools to find it, but it took proactive effort to use them, to rescue what was gone. Screaming and cursing got me nowhere. Patience and persistence did. May I remember this in other areas of my life, too.
OH my gosh, that’s happened to me, too! I never found the “up to 25 revisions” trick—just rewrote the best I could—but I’ll keep it in mind for next time and tweak my googling accordingly. What a great point you make here, though. Throwing fits never solves anything, even if it’s my default behavior.
Amy, if you should have this problem in the future {and if you’re blog is WordPress}, here is the magic article.
And I’ve had to rewrite them before, too, although not after quite this much work. Still, sooo frustrating!
Oh my how I have been there and what frustration it brings… I love it… “…google covers a multitude of sins.”
Oh yes ma’am, Ginger. Thanks for stopping by!
Oh my goodness, a nightmare come true. Google to the rescue. What a fantastic application to other areas of life!
Thank you, friend.
THANK you for the link, Kristen. I am glad you retrieved what was lost! I bookmarked because Wives of Faith uses WordPress and I can NOT tell you how many times I lost good words on that page before learning to compose elsewhere. Like paper. 😉
Have a great week!
You too, sweet Pattie! And YES ~ paper. What a concept {grin}!
That has happened to me as well and I have also done the two out of three. Then I verbally sent my computer to the devil…several time while trying to retrieve the lost post.
So glad you were able to retrieve it!
whaaaaat? there’s a fix? that.is.awesome!