When editing a page, Confluence marks the latest updates "To delete"

Question

Hello,

When I edit some confluence pages, the content I see before editing is missing when switching in edit mode. If I click on "Show modifications", I see that indeed if I save, the content will be deleted (sorry it's in french):

Anyone know why is Confluence acting like this ?

And moreover how to fix/disable that strange behaviour.

Thank you.

Lucarelli Fabio · Answer

Anybody to help on that matter. It's pretty annoying.

I suspect it has to do with draft version of pages. When a draft exists and you edit the page with the rest API, it merges the new page with the draft and end up erasing the data edited with the API.

A draft is apparently created just by editing a page and NOT saving with or without touching anything on the page.

I have no clue where you can check whether there is a draft or not for a page.

Lucarelli Fabio · Answer

My last comment was a false lead, I've edited the page, removed the anchor, Confluence still want to delete.

However I did something straighforward with the rest api, read the page content and save it back without touching anything and problem solved.

This looks like a Confluence bug to me.

Lucarelli Fabio · Answer

I've checked the source of the page. Most of the paragraphs start with an anchor:

FL202505131352 This is a paragraph System Jira d02b914a-751d-31b4-9433-3a4e535fd3bb JIRAKEY

But latest anchors are missing a ac:local-id value like in this case: FL202502261023 And Confluence seems to mark to delete each of the paragraphs without that value...