Lost draft email

I have exactly the same issue as everyone above. Only using Outlook web app via browser (Edge and Safari; same results) as our corporate security policy doesn’t allow using the off-web app.

Composing an email in the browser page seems to have maybe a 5-minute time limit; if I exceed this the window closes and my content disappears. Primal scream!

The only thing saved to Drafts folder is the subject line. If I could at least extend the composition time it would help. Workaround for now is to write in notepad or notes.

Same here. Worked on a draft for a while but decided to wait until the morning to send it. When I looked in the morning the email body was blank.

Not the first time this has happened, but the first time in a while.

Has there been ANY update to this situation AT ALL??? I just lost a draft that had all the files paths to over 200 projects I had worked on over the past 2.5 years. This was a crucial document to me and today it's completely BLANK. The Subject line is filled out still, but the contents are completely empty. I did not do this. This is an error with Outlook and considering how devastating of a glitch this is (and apparently common), you'd think they would have resolved this by now. I've never experienced anything like this with any other mailing service.

This happened again to me!
How is even possible that the basic function as a draft might not work well?!

I am using the MSoffice on iMac (CAtalina 10.15.7) via desktop and on MacBook pro (Mojave 10.14.6) via webmail.
If there is anything I could do to restore it, please let me know.
This must be a serious bag since I am also very often losing the updated information for MS Office packages. When I open on a macbook a doc or excel file created on iMac and work on it, save it and open it another dayon iMAC, very often the files are not updated and since the files were saved on the external disk, the updated information on macbook is lost!! The only solution I found right now is to saved it with a different name. When I forget about it I can loose lots of time - very annoying!
Please, MSOffice teams, these are serious bugs/issues that should be fixed.

Kind regards,

Darek

Still not solved, not answered. Is there anything we could do to restore it, please let us know.
How is even possible that the basic function as a draft might not work well?!

I am using the MSOffice on iMac (Catalina 10.15.7) via desktop and on MacBook pro (Mojave 10.14.6) via webmail.

Problems with updated files on thwo different systems I do have also with MS Office packages. When I open on a MacBook a doc or excel file created on iMac and work on it, save it and open it another day on iMAC, very often the files are not updated and since the files were saved on the external disk, the updated information on macbook is lost because somehow the iMAC old file seems to be more relevant, newer, or whatever the reason! The only solution I found right now is to save it with a different name, but sometimes I am forgeting doing it and even a week of work can be lost - this is unacceptable.
Please, MS Office teams, these are serious bugs/issues that should be fixed.

I've also experienced the same problem: created draft in latest desktop Outlook, did 'Save' numerous times during the hour of so I've been composing the draft email. Closed the draft email. Now when I look for it, it is completely missing!! I've searched the Draft folder and all folders to no avail. It is also not in the archive and not in webmail either. This is not the first time this has happened in the past year and is extremely aggravating. Please investigate this serious bug. How can anyone have any confidence in the software if the 'save' doesn't even work?

Note: The problem I described above is a random issue. I did a test shortly after the lost draft episode by creating a short test email which I 'saved' and it appeared in the draft folder. Very frustrating.

Can someone sort this out? today I lost very important information email which had data saved from many years? is there any way to recover the content?

I had an attachment on my draft and was able to recover it by searching for attachments on e-mails...otherwise I was F'ed. Good Luck!

I believe that this is an Outlook bug, as no useful answer has been provided. I am using Outlook 2021 fully updated, I do not have any archive settings in effect, etc., and yet after editing a draft, way too often ALL my edits are lost, and I have to start over. What a pain. There does not seem to be a way to save my work to prevent this and such edits are not automatically saved, rather they get lost if one moves his/her focus to another e-mail, or "goes" away, even if briefly, expecting to come back with one's last edits still there. Nope, gone. Where? This is NOT an answer, and this thread is NOT solved.

I am so upset and annoyed. I literally updated a draft on a mobile outlook app, closed it, got back into it to check a note, closed it again and it disappeared the next time I went to open it. Vanished. I absolutely didn't delete it. Then I realized half my drafts say no content. What is wrong with people making this product?

I just had the same thing happen too. I had saved a draft email on my PC, and later opened it in Outlook for android. It was blank and when I later went back to my PC it was blank there too.

My suspicion is that Outlook failed to load the content on android, and auto-save kicked in on the blank email wiping everything.

Needless to say that shouldn't happen, hours of work was lost despite frequent saving.

Having read through all these complaints and the purported answers or suggestions, it is clear that it doesn't matter which platform one is using Outlook from, in my case a software package (Office 2021, supposedly the last stand alone software version of Office, after which they were to go to subscription only, not sure if that ever happened) from Microsoft on a computer, fully updated, and fairly recent (2021). I open an e-mail, and begin editing it, as if to respond, or whatever, then if I go elsewhere, even briefly, often my edits are lost, and there doesn't seem to be a way to save them--perhaps an answer to that, would be a useful way to start--go elsewhere? Like look at a browser page, or do something else in Outlook, or whatever, if not staying in the e-mail opened and being edited, once I attempt to reopen it, it is either completely gone, or the edits are not there, as if I wasn't editing it at all. Ugh. Such a pain. Note that one does have to click on Reply or Forward or something even to be able to edit, so once that is done, there should also be a way to save the edits, or make it into a Draft--anyone? Back to which one can go to resume editing or whatever one intends to do with it. This should happen automatically and any such edited e-mails should automatically be saved in the appropriate Drafts folder, where one can find them reliably; that is, if Outlook worked properly. It does not. After performing even a minor edit, let alone anything major--God forbid, quite often if one does something else, opens another window or whatever, expecting to simply resume editing where one left off, one cannot find any draft, or possibly even a copy of the original e-mail, or if once can get back to the original e-mail, all one's edits are gone, as if one was never there editing it. Ugh. This is an Outlook bug, not proper behavior, and as far as I know--I could be wrong--not acknowledged as such by MS. Anyone on that--known acknowledged bug? Citation? I did customize my ribbon putting in a Save As command--note not Save Draft, as that was not available, but it will save the item in some folder outside of Outlook (of one's choice), however not in the appropriate drafts folder in Outlook--unless I can figure out where that is, and its name's possibly, assuming that I would have access to it sufficient to place another item into it, presumably to be opened by me again, hopefully by Outlook, if I double click the saved file name. Is this a work around, or idiocy? Does anyone have a better idea, how one can force a Draft to be saved after doing some editing on an e-mail? Should be trivial, right? If not something automatically done by Outlook, in any case.

Same problem. My fix was to search in the main search field for a keyword from the lost draft. Magically, it appeared in the search results.

I just had a draft email disappear after spending an hour attaching documents and fully detailing a situation for a design to an application engineer. There's no fix, there's no record of it existing, and the "recover deleted files" trick does nothing. The only fix I can figure out is to constantly make a redundant copy somewhere outside of outlook using the "save as" function from the file menu and email the message to yourself if you are unable to figure a way to work outside of Outlook.

This gives me just another reason to dislike Microsoft products. Between my Teams glitches and constant issues with Onedrive syncing, I'm constantly annoyed. This is why I will always be an Apple supporter and only use Microsoft products when absolutely required by my employer.

VERY FRUSTRATING worked on an email for 30 min. Looking up references and copied in text from other sources.
All gone, Not even in draft or saved some of it in draft.. Very disappointing and som much time wasted. After so many years of windows development I would have expected some more robustness.