Recovering unsaved "drafts" about htmly

[CharliePoole]

Just happened again, this time when I clicked Save as Draft and it discovered my session had expired. Can I control that timeout, or is it hard-coded?

BTW, I had not run into this before because I've been writing offline till now. Today I started to write a new post directly in HTMLy, but it doesn't seem workable unless I can keep my session alive.

[danpros]

For now try increasing the value of session.gc_maxlifetime in your php.ini. The default value is 1440 seconds (24 minutes).

[AutomationMan808]

How did you recover it from the cache?

[CharliePoole]

I used CPanel's file explorer to examine the files in the cache and did a copy and paste.

[CharliePoole]

I tried that and it didn't seem to work but maybe I didn't start a new session. Trying again.

[KuJoe]

I was looking into a solution for this for shared hosting where users don't have a lot of control over the PHP settings and I ended up adding a feature that automatically saves the post as a draft every 60 seconds. I am still working out the specifics and making it look pretty, but so far testing has been pretty successful. Would something like this be a solution to this issue?

[KuJoe]

This can probably be closed due to PR #757

[danpros]

Thanks!