Draft pages lost
Asked by Abdul Faras:

I have edited a page and kept it in draft mode, i.e. unpublished.

I could confirm that it was saved before I closed my browser.

But when I came back to it today, I dont see my latest changes in draft. All my efforts which are multiple days worth are now lost.

How do I recover the draft saved page?


Answers:
author: Elizabeth Barr
body: To be clear, [@Abdul Faras](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4616436) you can see the unpublished draft of the page you were working on but it is missing content (that is, does not reflect changes you made after a certain point)?

comments: author: Abdul Faras
body: So, I did changes which were saved as I close the page yesterday evening.   
But when I click on edit button this morning it took quite extra time than usual to open the page in edit mode and I didn't see any of my changes done over a period of say a week. I. E . It's in edit mode for last published page. Hope it's clear now?  
So essentially all changes made across period of a week were lost.  
I did close it and open the page in edit to see my last draft changes in the past without any issues... Not sure what happened yesterday that I don't see my any of the draft changes anymore. Is there a way to recovery it?


author: Elizabeth Barr
body: So, it reverted to the last published version?


author: Abdul Faras
body: Yes, apparently so. Not sure what happened with my draft ?


author: Elizabeth Barr
body: Hmm...it's possible you accidentally selected **Revert to last published version** ,but that is quite far from **Close** (which saves your changes without publishing) and would have required first selecting **(...)**.

![Screen Shot 2022-05-23 at 3.50.15 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/198678i23D6A205521FE40A/image-dimensions/150x304?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2022-05-23 at 3.50.15 PM.png")

I recommend following [@Dave Mathijs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2662590) 's suggestion and contacting Support directly.


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Hi [@Abdul Faras](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4616436) ,

When collaborative editing isn't enabled, Confluence Cloud saves a draft of your page once every thirty seconds. Site administrators can configure how often drafts are saved.

comments: author: Abdul Faras
body: Thanks. I hope so.

How do I recover that last saved draft? I dont see it in my drafts, or when I go to edit the page now.

If its only accessible to admin, then do you know how an admin could recover it?


author: Dave Mathijs
body: If you can reach the draft page, that's the only version available. You won't be able to recover other "versions" of the draft itself.


author: Abdul Faras
body: Oh really.. !!! How is it possible that saved draft gets deleted all of sudden? Isn't this an issue with the tool itself in this case?

Just to be clear, I am not expecting to recover any specific version of draft, I just need last saved draft.

I edited the page -\> saved the draft (say last week)

I came back to edit the same page today -\> now I dont see the last saved draft page.

This is a really a bad issue from product perspective I would say. I am going to loose multiple days' worth of efforts on it. Can someone please have a look in details?


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Please contact Atlassian Support if you need further assistance.


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