I usually save the draft MANUALLY every so often when I create the acticle, especially when it’s a long one. This time it did NOT let me save the draft manually, and it did not save any at all, only the introduction… “Draft saved” message is very deceiving!! I lost a long good article where I spent quite a long time and attaching images to every step. This was a requested article by one of your administrators and I lost it. I have no time or desire to reconstruct it. ◄ Please work much harder on this bug. ► It’s a big discouragement to write a long article here . Frustrating.
That’s happened to me a couple times as well, so I feel your pain. Although I can’t help with the bug, I’ll just share that when I’m writing long articles or making major edits, I do it in Microsoft Word and then copy & paste the content back into wikiHow so I know that it’s safe. Hopefully that advice will help you out in the future.
Hi @Pink_Star
, I know exactly what you mean about MS Word. Ttrimm told me too. Truth is this was the first time that I was NEVER be able to save the article after the Introduction . I never expected it happened. A couple of times in a past I had a different scenario - a "Publish’ button did not work, so I could not publish. But at least the draft was fully saved to the end. What I did was opened a new browser and simply cut/pasted into the new article. It worked liked a charm . Next time I write a long article I will make sure to copy it into the MS Word to prevent the frustration. Thank you for reminding me! Great advice indeed.
Hailey
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This also happened to me, and it ruined my article
@Hailey
GirgesI know how frustrating it is.
Shinako
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@Hailey-Girges
and @Laura7491
, Try to follow this article so that something like this does not happen again. http://www.wikihow.com/Back-Up-a-wikiHow-Article
Thank you @Shinako
… yes I am aware about copying it to MS Word. I have not used it yet. But perhaps I will need to if I have to. I posted this problem 40 weeks ago and have not had this problem since then.
