RECOVERING the ORIGINAL version of an EDITED Post

[fillippone]

Today I published my monthly roundup of the Italian Board.
The post is this one:

[Meta] Andamento sezione italiana - RECAP MARZO

I usually QUOTE and EDIT the previous month's Message, saving various drafts before posting.

This month, I am an old chap. I didn't realise I pressed EDIT, so I modified last month's post.

When I finally pressed POST, I then deleted last month's review.

I managed to recover a version of last month's post with the LOYCE.CLUB Search Tool for unedited/deleted posts (search per post, per user or per topic) by @LoyceV

@Tryninja provides a similar service.

I want to reinstate the full BBC Code Version.
Is this version archived somewhere?

Maybe some WYSIWYG editor exists for BBCode, but I doubt I can get all the Tables correctly, complete with links.

Definitely, I am not an AI.

[LoyceV]

Is this version archived somewhere?

As far as I know, Admin can see and restore the post as it was before it was edited.

[Ivystar5]

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

[NotATether]

There are HTML to BBcode converters but they aren't that accurate and also aren't optimized for SMF.

Be prepared to do a lot of the conversion by hand, unless someone makes an automated tool for that of course.

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

Your post is only saved into the drafts if you clicked on the preview button or pressed Alt-P (which does the exact same thing).

[fillippone]

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

Sometimes the most straightforward ideas are the best.
Of course, I saved many drafts of the post.
The first draft I saved had only a few modifications, so it was trivial to recover the original post.
Thanks.

[Ivystar5]

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

Sometimes the most straightforward ideas are the best.
Of course, I saved many drafts of the post.
The first draft I saved had only a few modifications, so it was trivial to recover the original post.
Thanks.

Experience is the best teacher! glad it helped.

[fillippone]

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

Sometimes the most straightforward ideas are the best.
Of course, I saved many drafts of the post.
The first draft I saved had only a few modifications, so it was trivial to recover the original post.
Thanks.

Experience is the best teacher! glad it helped.

Well, I should be experienced enough to have thought about this.
I probably panicked a little on this case.

Thanks for pointing out an easy and effective solution.
Lol, timing is everything!
Merit shower well deserved!

[LoyceV]

Sometimes the most straightforward ideas are the best.

Since you already said you saved multiple drafts, I assumed you tried the most obvious solution already
Now that we're on the subject: I wouldn't mind having 1000 instead of 100 Drafts and keep them for 42 instead of 7 days

[fillippone]

Sometimes the most straightforward ideas are the best.

Since you already said you saved multiple drafts, I assumed you tried the most obvious solution already
Now that we're on the subject: I wouldn't mind having 1000 instead of 100 Drafts and keep them for 42 instead of 7 days

Definitely.
Also I think that a more evolved draft management (e.g. Sorting for message) could be a great addition to the forum.
@powerglove, are you listening?

[Jaycoinz]

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

Sometimes the most straightforward ideas are the best.
Of course, I saved many drafts of the post.
The first draft I saved had only a few modifications, so it was trivial to recover the original post.
Thanks.

Experience is the best teacher! glad it helped.

Well, I should be experienced enough to have thought about this.
I probably panicked a little on this case.

Thanks for pointing out an easy and effective solution.
Lol, timing is everything!
Merit shower well deserved!

You are experienced enough no doubt, but sometimes we tend to handle or think about some issues with the wrong approach simply because maybe you are all tense seeing it occurred without you planning for it to happen.

[Cossyblack]

Also look into your draft if you can find it there, sometimes when I make long typing the post somehow manage to save itself in the draft.

To be honest I haven't thought of this idea for a long time, sometimes When I am writing a long post,doing some previews to spot out some errors for corrections and I mistakenly exit that page,I will have to start all over again not knowing it's already saved in draft. Thanks man

[Cricktor]

So the obvious advise if you open an existing post for edit or to copy its content, hit Preview as very first action to save a draft of the unedited version before you start to mess around. As I almost always use preview at some point of checking my post draft, I'm used to the Preview button.

I'm not the youngest cherry on the cake too, so to speak, and not immune to senile errors. Real life f-ups make experience...

I wouldn't mind a revert-edit button which may be active only for some time, say 10min. Maybe overcomplicating things. If I had to edit or tweak a "complicated" post, I usually save the unedited version in an external editor anyway first.