Friday, April 14, 2006

Blogger - Saving Posts as Draft

About six months ago, I wrote a fairly long post and decided to save it as a draft. When I went to the Edit Post area, it wasn't there. (INSERT STREAM OF CUSS WORDS HERE.) I tried to save a few more posts as drafts and they weren't there either.

From time to time over the last six months, I have fiddled with it and written Blogger and searched Blogger Help and Googled the problem but to no avail. Last night, I Googled it again and there was a vague comment on a message board about not being able to save to draft in blogger and fixing the problem using a *drop down menu.*

I went back to the Edit Post area and, sure enough, there is a drop down menu at the top of the page which you can choose to view Everything, Drafts or Current. For some reason, my drop down menu was set on Current. I selected Everything and, by God, there was the draft of the original long post I thought I had lost and all of the experimental drafts I had created over the last six months.

So, if you're having the same problem, "You're welcome."

9 comments:

Aisha said...

Thanks! That did happen to me...
And Laurie...two days of non-shopping left before EASTER SUNDAY!!! Yeah!!!

Laurie said...

Aisha - Happy Easter (almost)! My first purchase...Spring clothes and shoes! Yee haw!

Lorna said...

You're brilliant, as well as beautiful and sort of looking like me.....

Tim said...

You're a genius! I had problems with blogger last week, and I learned the Blogger help system works like this:

1. Send them an email
2. Wait patiently
3. Send another email
4. Lose patience and figure it out yourself.

Peace,

Tim

Neal said...

Soooo, where is the giant posting now?

Laurie said...

Lorna - That is because we are true soul sisters.

Tim - No shit. They sent me the weirdest e-mail response which was no help at all. It sort of led me in circles to nowhere land.

Neal - The post wasn't nearly as brilliant as I had imagined. It went in the trash bin. :)

neil said...

I always copy my posts to Word before publishing and if I was writing a draft would do it on Word as well, as I can't figure out how to post without it publishing on the original date of the edit, meaning a new post from the edit list will be buried under all the posts you published after that date. The other advantage is Word has a better spell checker and also does a grammer check.

neil said...

Oops, forgot to tell you I stole your Jesus joke in time for Easter and didn't get a single comment about it.

Laurie said...

Tanked Up - There is a drop down menu at the bottom of the post screen where you can change the time and date of your post. However, I agree you're much safer using Word.

Glad to hear you didn't get any flack for the Jesus joke. I thought it was hilarious.