Stream: social
Topic: Did NOT lose Confluence edits in Chrome crash
Dave deBronkart (Apr 09 2020 at 21:55):
Wow. I'm posting this here after taking my nitroglycerine pill, so the next victim might find it in a search.
After a richly productive Patient Empowermnt WG meeting today, with live minutes-taking throughout, Chrome crashed when I was almost ready to publish. To my surprise, the "recently worked on" link only gives me my raw/naked unedited document, which is not what's happened to me in the past, I think. I first drafted this to say: "Am I screwed or is there any chance of getting it back?"
Then realized - this thing may be Cloud-y, but it does NOT think like a Google Doc. I clicked the Edit link at top of screen, and voila, my unfinished / unpublished draft was there, ready for me to continue.
I submit to the Confluence gods that it would be awfully awfully nice to have SOME indication somewhere of "You have unpublished edits." (Or, if that does exist, I'm blind.)
Lloyd McKenzie (Apr 09 2020 at 22:09):
Look for this at the top of the page:
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Dave deBronkart (Apr 09 2020 at 22:21):
Yessir, I saw that:
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HOWEVER when I clicked one open, my unpublished changes were not evident - all I saw was the previous (published) edition!
Only when I clicked Edit were my unpublished changes visible so I could resume. (To me it appeared that it had gotten saved with only some token initial keystroke recorded)
The Confluence paradigm that's slowly sinking in is that it's a repository of published documents, and I need to take action to resume editing - if I merely click where it says "unpublished changes" I don't get to see them. I don't think I've ever seen a system like it - but I'm learning. (Ultimately I figured this one out all by myself!)
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