Story Draft Lost!

[cubbyfire04]

Hey y'all! I'm pretty bummed out... I was about 1000 words into a juicy story, only to find my draft was empty when I came back to work on it a day later. The title and tags were still there, but the body was empty. I saved my work repeatedly.

Any hope of recovering?

How/why did this happen?

Future suggestions (uploading doc instead, etc.)?

Any thoughts or info appreciated!

 

[RoperTrace]

Hey y'all! I'm pretty bummed out... I was about 1000 words into a juicy story, only to find my draft was empty when I came back to work on it a day later. The title and tags were still there, but the body was empty. I saved my work repeatedly.

Any hope of recovering? Probably not.

How/why did this happen?

Future suggestions (uploading doc instead, etc.)?

Any thoughts or info appreciated!

I'd suggest working on your drafts in Word, or Google docs, or the offline word processor you prefer. I save my drafts onto MS' cloud, and usually onto my laptop's memory as well. I've been using onedrive.live.com for all my files. It was a very reasonable, one-time charge for all MS Office, and cloud storage. I've had it for almost 10 years, and it cost me about $149 back then. Not sure how much now.
When I was still consulting, I also saved files onto a thumb drive(flash). I've had computers completely crash and have lost at least two of my first stories lost forever,

Don't work on Lit's draft mode.

I upload my finished stories as a copy and paste. Haven't had great luck trying to upload my Word files, or they get altered.

 

[cubbyfire04]

I'd suggest working on your drafts in Word, or Google docs, or the offline word processor you prefer. I save my drafts onto MS' cloud, and usually onto my laptop's memory as well. I've been using onedrive.live.com for all my files. It was a very reasonable, one-time charge for all MS Office, and cloud storage. I've had it for almost 10 years, and it cost me about $149 back then. Not sure how much now.
When I was still consulting, I also saved files onto a thumb drive(flash). I've had computers completely crash and have lost at least two of my first stories lost forever,

Don't work on Lit's draft mode.

I upload my finished stories as a copy and paste. Haven't had great luck trying to upload my Word files, or they get altered.

Good info. Thanks! Live and learn I guess.

 

[RoperTrace]

I'd suggest working on your drafts in Word, or Google docs, or the offline word processor you prefer. I save my drafts onto MS' cloud, and usually onto my laptop's memory as well. I've been using onedrive.live.com for all my files. It was a very reasonable, one-time charge for all MS Office, and cloud storage. I've had it for almost 10 years, and it cost me about $149 back then. Not sure how much now.
When I was still consulting, I also saved files onto a thumb drive(flash). I've had computers completely crash and have lost at least two of my first stories lost forever,

Don't work on Lit's draft mode.

I upload my finished stories as a copy and paste. Haven't had great luck trying to upload my Word files, or they get altered.

I just checked, and they still offer a one-time plan for Microsoft 365 Office for $149.99. I have one Terrabyte of storage(1000 gigs). I'm not even close to using that, but don't store any videos or pics on there, other than a few.
https://www.microsoft.com/EN-US/mic...s?icid=MSCOM_QL_M365&culture=en-us&country=US

 

[Paneleirinha]

Sorry to dig up this thread but this just happened to me and it was from one minute to the other.

Was in fullscreen editor mode and left the keyboard for a minute. It was indeed saving the draft evertime I stopped writing for a second or so. When I returned, the page was in a reloading loop and the only way I found to get back to my draft was to kill the browser and login again. Then I noticed the lost text.

I wasn't much into the story as I just started to write it but lost several paragraphs. It's really frustrationg.

I don't want to save anything in the computer I'm using or use another cloud service and I was thinking Literotica draft form was ok. Does this happens sporadicly or no one really uses the draft mode to write at all?

Thanks,
Paneleirinha

 

[Manu]

Thank you for the report and sorry about the issue.

We are looking to see if there is anything we can find that might cause this issue.

For now, the only suggestion I can offer is to look at your browser's Local Storage to see if somehow the draft was saved there instead of to the Lit server.

You can see your browser's local storage by following these instructions for Firefox:
Make sure you are on the Literotica.com site.
Go to the browser developer tools by pressing F12
Go to the Storage tab.
Expand Local Storage.
Click on Literotica.com
You will see any Local Storage for Literotica.com on the right side. You may need to copy the data out of the browser and into a text file to see what it looks like.

You can run the data through an online formatting tool like this to see it better:
https://sqlformat.org/

For Chrome, press F12 and then to to the Application tab. Then click on Local Storage on the left side to expand the list of sites. Click on Literotica.com to see the saved Local Storage in your browser.

We will continue to look for any possible issues on this side. If you notice any other unexpected behavior, please let me know in this thread.

Thank you.

 

[Paneleirinha]

Hello Manu.

No, it didn't. I had to clear the cache so I could login again. I didn't know about it and I just checked the dev tools. Nothing there.

The loading loop was the same as you would spam click the reload button on the page. But it only happened in my control panel. The chat, tags, forums and story pages woren't affected.

Thanks for the link and will do,
Paneleirinha

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

Wish I'd seen this thread sooner. Lost 1,500 or so words overnight. I'm creating off an iPad w/ keyboard, and don't really know how to search my local cache/drafts but will look for it.

 

[pezzheaddazzler]

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Wish I'd seen this thread sooner. Lost 1,500 or so words overnight. I'm creating off an iPad w/ keyboard, and don't really know how to search my local cache/drafts but will look for it.

Android head here doesn't apple have a file viewer then look for most recent files???

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

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Android head here doesn't apple have a file viewer then look for most recent files???

you're correct. But nothin' there

 

[GoldenCompulsion]

I just checked, and they still offer a one-time plan for Microsoft 365 Office for $149.99. I have one Terrabyte of storage(1000 gigs). I'm not even close to using that, but don't store any videos or pics on there, other than a few.

Just wanted to say. People don't have to buy Office. They can just get a Google account and use Google Docs online for free, then either download the file as .rtf or .docx OR simply copy and paste the text into Lit draft, ready for publication.