My Near-Disaster with Canva (and the Feature That Saved Me!)

byrobert2704

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9 months ago

Canva has an autosave feature! (Pro version only). It saved my butt, big time.

I have a template saved with the size of image to use in the body of posts. 1200 px x 675 px. Instead of setting one up for every image, I open the template, add a photo, some text overlays, cropping and the like, then download it, do ctrl + A then delete, and start the next image.

Thing is, I’d accidentally done something to that template creating a second page. The images I was doing was being done on the second image and I wasn’t downloading that. I was downloading page 1, which was the blank template.

When I reached the stage of converting from png to WebP (https://www.freeconvert.com/) so it doesn’t slow the site speed too much, I was horrified to see blank images.

That’s when I went looking for a recovery feature in a Canva account. They don’t have it. Aaargh!

I did find a “version history”

… And oh my, the relief when I saw it had been saving in the background!

So, not only did I get my 15th post published, and entered into Kyle’s competition (give it a 'like' if you like) for this week, I discovered a handy feature in Canva, and learned to just create a new custom size for every new image instead of deleting pictures - especially ones that have been heavily edited. That was hours wasted. I won’t do that again.

What's been your worst tech disaster?