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I was writing a very long response over 500 words to a discussion and it just vanished. Is there anyway to retrieve it?
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Unless your course was using the New Rich Content Editor, there is not auto-save and the content is not retrievable. When it comes to typing long replies, once recommendation is to type the reply in a text editor (Word, GoogleDoc, etc.) and then copy and paste into the reply.
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