The problem now is that it seems that whenever I search a key word from an unsent draft that disappeared or I click the Draft option in that 3-dotted menu on the top right, it still shows a preview of those old unsent drafts and even their dates created/edited but now there’s no content inside of them when I click them. Or, I used to just click the 3-dotted menu at the top right of Messaging > click Drafts and I’d access it there even though it for some reason disappeared from the main screen where all the Drafts were clearly listed and displayed. For example (back then,) whenever I typed a key word into the search bar of my Message app (drafts section) related to that old unsent draft message, I’d still see a preview or “cache” if you will of that message and then I’d be able to recover it simply by clicking it and opening it to get the contents within. I did not have issues recovering draft messages in the past but now I am having issuues.
Can’t count how common this problem is on pretty most phones (e.g. Of course, by this time, my wife had already introduced another mitigation:Īs many of you know, unsent draft messages are a common problem as far as accidental deletion or just disappearing for whatever reason. Incidentally, you can get the process ID for a Chrome tab via the Chrome Task manager (right-click on the tab bar).Īfter about 9 attempts, I found the correct chrome.exe process and found the text of the discarded draft. There are lots of tools to read process memory I used HxD to search the process memory for keywords from the draft.Īctually, HxD is a little clunky since it doesn’t show you the process ID of the process you are viewing. Also, there need to be some reasonably obscure words in the text you are looking for (‘bazaar’ was the winner in my wife’s draft). This can only work if you have not yet closed the Gmail browser tab, and if the process memory has not yet been overwritten or reclaimed. Scan the browser process memory for the discarded draft.
None of these worked in our case and so I thought of a hail mary option:Ĥ. In some cases, the back button *may* work. If you have another device hooked up to the same account, you can quickly put it into airplane mode and perhaps recover the draft.ģ. It’s easy to panic and click on something else once you realize that you’ve just discarded your draft.Ģ. The “Undo” text appears on-screen, but only until you click on another folder / message. Given that the draft is not moved into the Trash folder when this happens, there are only a few options for recovery:ġ. Something went wrong when she tried to insert a picture and she hit the Discard Draft button in haste. My wife discovered this frustrating behaviour tonight after spending an hour writing a message to her sister via. However, if you discard a draft, it just vanishes in a puff of smoke. If you delete a regular email, it gets moved to the Trash folder.
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