I just finished working on a small bites post. I’d been at it for two days, off and on, and it was giving me a hard time. Lots of reflection on the Amber Guyger trial and sentence. I was determined to finish today so I sat my fanny down and got to work for about two hours now.
Then WordPress ate my post.
It. Ate. It.
Out of an abundance of caution – i.e. I can’t replace this laptop if I throw it across the room – I’m going to post this and walk away. Maybe I’ll dig out all the reference sites and rewrite the post, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll have myself a glass of wine and a good laugh over this whole thing.
Maybe.
Riddle from the Middle 
I totally feel better now about maintaining Word backups of my posts. This is a bummer! 😦
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Oh yes, every once in a while I forget and find myself relying too much on the auto save function. Then I get smacked in the head like a girl who forgot to duck at the fish market. Sheesh. 🙄
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This has happened to me and it is most frustrating. A lot of people write in Word then paste to WordPress. Thus far I am still taking the risk and writing here. Sucks when that happens, though. Sorry. Chocolate and red wine are a comfort…
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It’s the little things. Well, that and knowing when to close the laptop & walk away. The last time I tried to cut & paste WP messed up the formatting but I’ll probably give it another shot when I’m doing a longer piece.
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I have better luck saving it as a txt file. Then no formatting to worry about.
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I find a shed load of chocolate and a large sledgehammer is most therapeutic. Same thing happened to me. Had nearly finished a guest post for another site and wam bam thank you mam left with a white screen. Was she the off duty policewoman who mistook her own room so she shot someone. Clearly we have all done that.. I heard Trump say that about the US Diplomats wife who claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the UK after she killed someone driving the wrong way down a road. Clearly we have all done that.
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A large sledgehammer — I knew I forgot to pick up something at the store. This has happened one other time. I think the post was less extensive (less research, less time invested in writing it) but it was still exasperating. This one has me considering creating my more complex pieces in Pages so I at least have a record if it all burns.
This was the case about the policewoman, yes. I only just heard about the Diplomat’s wife who fled the UK. That must be infuriating.
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uh oh. a PO’d woman. I need to somewhere safe … like Syria
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That’s no lie. You’re a smart fella. 😉
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I am sorry that happened. That is so aggravating. Please don’t take it out on the laptop (guys like me have to deal with that mess). I’d go with the wine.
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Definitely wine. And maybe ice cream. Or potato chips. 😆
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All good choices.
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Have you tried checking the history of the post?
I kept losing posts and then I found the history button and it enabled me to recover them.
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Yeah, that’s worked for me in the past. This time it isn’t even in there. Weird but what are ya gonna do, right?
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If you wrote it again, would you say the same thing? Maybe a rewrite was needed. Still a bummer in that much effort lost. Sorry. I agree with happyface – chocolate usually helps.
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Hmm. Well, it will give me a chance to sit with my thoughts awhile longer, that’s true. There’s a bright side…I guess? 🙂
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I have written a book currently being printed. When I was about 1/2 way through, a good 15 chapters in, my computer crashed. I remember the gist of where I was going but totally had to re-imagine the 15 chapter lost to old equipment. I totally get your frustration. The re-write may be better than the original.
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I just gasped when I read this. Literally gasped aloud. 15 chapters is almost unthinkable…kudos to you for taking that one in stride. 🙂
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🙂 Oh, no! That sounds terrible!
I hope you find the draft somewhere.
Have a piece of chocolate with a cup of tea or coffee and relax. ommmmmmmm….
Take care
Claudia 🙂
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Thanks, Claudia. Definitely an opportunity to put that ommmmmmm into practice. Can’t claim to be zen if I’m throwing laptops. 😂
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WordPress is supposed to back up our ‘drafts’. I’m sure you’ve done it, but check and make sure there isn’t a ‘draft’ out there floating around in your blog. And thanks for the heads up. Sometimes (probably most times) I write huge honking blog posts and if the damned site ATE one of those? I hope it gets wicked indigestion. Maybe a nice cup of tea and a fur kid cuddle will help stabilize your mood? My sympathies! 😡
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Thanks, Melanie. I really have no idea what happened. I usually end up with 19 ‘drafts’ by the time I publish from the auto saves. This time there were only 6 – the last one from last night. Bad luck!!
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Well that sucks. Just no reason for things like to happen. None at all. *sigh*
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Maybe I was being too wordy & WP ate it on principle? Sheesh.
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Wine and a good laugh is the best course of action.
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A big bowl of ice cream didn’t hurt. 😆
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Oooo. My kind of coping mechanism.
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Oh bummer. Too bad for you.
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It happens. Ugh.
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It does! 🙃
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