Wikispaces doesn't have an undo button!

I just spent one hour translating onto a Wiki page before selecting all and inadvertently wiping the entire text. NO UNDO button! My work has gone for ever as far as I can see.

If that it true, I will not be recommending to anyone ever a writing app which does not have the most important option in the universe - undo.

Woe o woe is me!

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on April 26, 2009 at 2:39am

Go to the History tab and you can select a previously saved version. If you hadn't saved it you can try Edit/Undo on your browser.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 26, 2009 at 6:25am

It was the first version, so nothing was saved. Can't see that option on my browser.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 26, 2009 at 6:58am

The thing is, kids could make this mistake so many times.
You select text to do something with it and you hit the wrong button.
But that is no problem on Word, for example. You just put it back.
That option just HAS to be there on any app that might be used for word processing. One of the most wretched things that can happen to you is losing all your work (remember this problem from the 80s before autosave/undo?)

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Permalink Reply by Steve O'Connor on April 26, 2009 at 9:56am

There is no substitute for saving early and often. I teach this to my students and remind them regularly. When my kids experience this, I asked them if they had saved recently. Either they had, or they learn an important lesson.

Software is no substitute for vigilance and prudence.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 26, 2009 at 10:21am

You said it! But it's about 15 years since I had to save anything except when I was closing it down. Much better if kids use Wikis and THEN Word.

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Permalink Reply by Tim on April 26, 2009 at 12:47pm

PBwiki has an undo button as part of their WYSIWYG editing tools.

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Permalink Reply by Steve O'Connor on April 26, 2009 at 1:15pm

I would try to unlearn that behavior. Stuff happens, especially when you are working in the cloud. Power can go out. Internet connections can drop. Computers crash.

Most server based software that I have worked with does not have an autosave with WordPress being a prominent exception. Undo buttons are more common, but by no means universal.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 26, 2009 at 3:09pm

Solution: ctrl-Z :-)
Thanks to Wikispaces for info!
I take back my criticisms. But how could I have found out about that undo option more easily? Is it mentioned in the Help section? Maybe it should be.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Smart on April 26, 2009 at 1:04pm

Wikispaces should have automatically saved a draft for you while you were writing. Hopefully it will pop up and ask you if you want your draft back when you click edit again!