How does the auto-save function work?

  • buskerdog

    (@buskerdog)


    17 years, 8 months ago

    I assist someone else with their blog periodically. Yesterday he emailed me in a panic that he’d spent 5 hours working on an epic post only to have “something” happen and the whole thing disappear. I located a draft of the post for him but it only had the first few lines in it. Whenever I work on fixing posts for him I notice the autosave function updating every few minutes or so. I just ran a test and found that even if I close out of the window without saving the post it still retained it as a draft for me.

    Why would someone else have had a lengthy post disappear even with the autosave function operating? I even looked directly in the MySQL database to see if I could find the post but it wasn’t there. Thoughts?

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Maybe the problem the person experience happened long before they realized there was a problem, and that the auto-save didn’t happen because of that problem.

    WordPress 2.6 also introduced the concept of post revisions so maybe you can use that as an excuse to upgrade that blog to the current version of WordPress.

    Thread Starter buskerdog

    (@buskerdog)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    This person finds new and innovative ways to create problems, so you’re probably right.

    As for upgrading, I’m afraid because I’ve made so many little customizations and the database is so huge that if upgrading caused a problem I’d be up a creek. Maybe someday…

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Upgrading because the database is huge should not be cause for concern if you do a backup before staring the upgrade.

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