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I was in the middle of composing a post but needed to switch machines. How do I get back my saved draft to continue it?

TenderFoot wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:06 pm I was in the middle of composing a post but needed to switch machines. How do I get back my saved draft to continue it?

The forum doesn't save draft posts. If the draft is still up on the other machine, you could copy it to a USB drive and transfer it to your current computer that way. The other option is to post the draft and then edit it when you are on the other computer.

If you saved it before the change pad it from your saved drafts in the user control panel.

So what does "Save Draft" do?

TenderFoot wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:47 pm So what does "Save Draft" do?

User Control Panel > Overview > Manage drafts

Sorry, I mislead you. Do this instead: Click on your user name in the upper right corner --> Select User Control Panel --> click on Manage Drafts.

Learn something new every day.. been here since forever, never knew :D

Yes, I already tried that but it says that there are no saved drafts!

after clicking save draft there's a window which warns that only the text gets saved and any attachments will be lost. Sure you also clicked yes on that?

"The" Draft has just turned up. I suppose a consequence of trying to work on two machines semi-simultaneously with parallel issues of updating via SPM in MX23.5 on the Tosh which provoked me to installing MX23.6 on the Lenovo. Fundamentally the process results in a "Not all packages could be retrieved - continue Y/N" . Hopefully I'll complete the original post under the title "An error occurred..." (that may become a link!)

EDIT But now can't yet see how to complete and submit it...at the top of that page it says ...

"Here you can view, edit and delete your saved drafts." [NB only a Save option ] Simplest solution may be to Copy and Paste into a new topic...

TenderFoot wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 6:00 pm EDIT But now can't yet see how to complete and submit it...

"load draft" on the manage drafts page

TenderFoot wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 6:00 pm "The" Draft has just turned up. I suppose a consequence of trying to work on two machines semi-simultaneously with parallel issues of updating via SPM in MX23.5 on the Tosh which provoked me to installing MX23.6 on the Lenovo. Fundamentally the process results in a "Not all packages could be retrieved - continue Y/N" . Hopefully I'll complete the original post under the title "An error occurred..." (that may become a link!)

EDIT But now can't yet see how to complete and submit it...at the top of that page it says ...

"Here you can view, edit and delete your saved drafts." [NB only a Save option ] Simplest solution may be to Copy and Paste into a new topic...

Or, you can simply go into the thread you had been making a draft reply in, or (for new thread) the forum/subforum you were preparing a new thread in, and just click on "reply" or "new topic".

Then when you click on the preview button below the drafting window, you will get a list of the draft posts saved in the thread/subforum in question. They are listed chronologically in descending order, so the top draft is the newest.

If you keep amending your draft and then resaving it, the forum software creates a new draft. So you could get a whole list of different versions of the your draft.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 5:03 pm Learn something new every day.. been here since forever, never knew :D

Same goes for me (Relative Newbie).

Looks like I'm in Good Company

Since this thread left questions open I did a bit of research and like to share my entire findings in one clear entry for you:

+ Drafts are thread-specific. Saved drafts appear only when you open the “New Topic” or “Post Reply” editor for the same thread in which they were composed

+ Accessing drafts via Control Panel → Manage Drafts allows you to view or edit your saved content—but this does not insert it automatically into a new post

+ Clicking “Save” in the Manage Drafts screen does not publish the post. It simply saves the subject and message, omitting attachments, formatting, or other elements

+ Saving a draft doesn’t lock in your position in a thread—your content won’t appear anywhere until you manually load it and click Submit from the correct thread post screen.

+ Once a draft is loaded into a post editor for that thread, it’s automatically removed from saved drafts

+ You can only load drafts when you're in the right thread editor.

Tedious and outdated is: If you enter via Manage Drafts, you must manually:

• Copy the content,

• Navigate to the thread,

• Open the editor,

• Paste the draft,

• Submit it manually.