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  • I woke up this morning and saw all three of my drafts GONE! VANISHED!

    Adding more to the strangeness, my dashboard had OLD drafts from the month of November sitting in my queue. WTH?

    Through a search, I couldn’t find ANY of my drafts.

    For anyone who’s a computer whiz, is it possible to AT least somehow retrieve my draft through the preview version of it? Meaning, can I go through my history, grab the URL of the previewed version of my draft, and somehow retrieve the content of my lost drafts?

    PLEASE HELP!

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  • Dang that’s weird….. uhh what is your website name? you might be able to use time machine to go back and see what your site looked like and recover it by grabbing the information off the page?

    @kaygedeon: Have you contacted your hosts about this? Sounds like they have a restored an old backup of your database.

    Thread Starter kaygedeon

    (@kaygedeon)

    @undergod11 I’ve tried that actually…but I believe using sites like archive.org for retrieval only works if the page has already been posted and published.

    @esmi I have. Quoting them, there was a “massive issue with our server” they’re “working now to recover stories that aren’t appearing on the page right now.”

    But in case our drafts/stories cannot be recovered, I was just wondering if it was even possible to retrieve lost drafts through previewed pages in my browser’s history? Just plugging the URL onto the search bar just brings up the homepage.

    As these were draft posts, you won’t find them in time machine or in Google’s cache. Do you know how to access your History from within your web browser? If not, try asking on a support resource for your preferred web browser.

    Nothing that I know of… and if it was a draft then its pretty much gone if its off the server if your hosts don’t have a backup.

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