I've lost all my content in the edit page

Question

Hi there,

I worked on a Confluence page about 1-2 months ago editing the page, and left it without publishing it for a while. I had the page open for a few weeks, in case I needed to go back to it, and I can see that the content in the edit page had been saved.

I've now come back to it, and most of the content that I've added has been lost. When I go back to see what changes had been made, the content that I've added hadn't even been recorded. Is this normal?

I feel a bit unsafe leaving content on Confluence without publishing it now if my work seems to go lost if I leave it for a few weeks or months.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Joe Amato_81jrn4 · Answer

Thank You! This is exactly what I needed to hear.  I was editing a page in a browser tab that got deleted.  I went back to the page and could not see all my additions and the page was tagged "unpublished changes".  I was afraid to enter edit mode again, thinking I was going to commit to editing without the unpublished changed recovered.  Your note was very helpful. Thanks again!

Jessica Parsons_2d3md6 · Answer

I came here because I had a similar problem. The page wasn't in drafts because I had previously published the page, but it did have the "UNPUBLISHED CHANGES" tag. I discovered that if I clicked the pencil icon, my changes appeared. I'm new to Confluence and this is not at all what I expected! Hopefully it will be helpful others like me.

Andy Furnival_u2so95 · Answer

Confluence is notorious for loosing content. Its completely wiped out unpublished work for me, just by pasting some text into the page, and its not something you can even undo.  Once its gone, its gone, and you'll find no admission that confluence was the problem in these fourms