Title: WordPress ate my homework
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress ate my homework

 *  Resolved [ariannaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ariannaa/)
 * (@ariannaa)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-ate-my-homework/)
 * I thought it was autosaving. I guess it wasn’t. I was distracted, was using the
   autosave as a safety net. Clearly I forgot to save *anything* because everything
   is gone. Everything I did for the past 5 hours.
 * I’m just a consultant on this site, so the last saved or auto saved versions 
   aren’t visible to me.
 * Please. Does anyone have any idea where I could go to magically retrieve any 
   of my work?
 * And yes, I know. Shouldn’t work directly in WP. Should save every few minutes.
   But I wasn’t. Instead, I was trying to save time and cut corners. You don’t need
   to tell me what I did wrong. But if you could help me, I’d be grateful. Might
   not even throw up, which is what I feel like doing.

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 *  [SEO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-india-professional/)
 * (@seo-india-professional)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-ate-my-homework/#post-2143457)
 * If your data got added into the database then you might actually get some help
   from some database administrator.
 * However, if your content was not auto-saved i.e not added into database then 
   there is no way to retrieve your data. Sorry about that.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-ate-my-homework/#post-2143508)
 * Actually you can (and should IMO) work directly in WP, but yeah, if there are
   no revisions, there can be no restore.
 * I would ask your admin if they can install [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-revision-display/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-revision-display/)
   by the bye. May help in the future.
 *  [technonow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technonow/)
 * (@technonow)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-ate-my-homework/#post-2143659)
 * 5 hours … writing one page of a blog? How long would it have been?
 * If you’re writing that long on one page, you’d be better writing several pages(
   In which case earlier pages would have been saved).
 * Who is going to scroll down a single page that has taken five hours to write!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-ate-my-homework/#post-2143660)
 * technonow – Sometimes it takes me DAYS to craft a post just right. Writing it’s
   a one-shot deal for everyone 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [ariannaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ariannaa/)
 * (@ariannaa)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-ate-my-homework/#post-2143666)
 * Thanks, everyone, for your help. It was a lost cause, but I’m grateful for the
   effort.

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