# Closing the "There is an unsaved Draft" banner wipes the Pickaxe in Progress **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs / Site Issues\ **Created:** [February 11, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062 "2026-02-11T15:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kenlyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kenlyle](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/kenlyle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/1 "2026-02-11T15:05:53Z")
Very much like this post [Lost an Auto Builder Pickaxe in Progress](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/lost-an-auto-builder-pickaxe-in-progress/1155) Simply clicked the X on that message to get back some screen space (the UI, when answering questions from the LLM in chat is terrible, as the answer window grows, and obscures the questions), and the screen refreshed to a new Pickaxe. I lost a LOT of work, but fortunately, I have most of the content saved as files. There was another request for some kind of Auto-Save. This should be implemented, because these events are very demoralizing. ---
**Author:** ![lindsay\_support](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/lindsay_support/32/4508_2.png) [@lindsay\_support](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/lindsay_support)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/2 "2026-02-11T20:01:52Z")
Hi @kenlyle, thanks for letting us know about this! To clarify, when you checked version history you were not able to find what you had been working on? If so, I can check with our engineers to see if the work might be recoverable! ---
**Author:** ![kenlyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kenlyle](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/kenlyle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/3 "2026-02-11T20:17:34Z")
> [@kenlyle](#): > > Simply clicked the X on that message to get back some screen space ^Simply clicked the X on that message to get back some screen space ---
**Author:** ![lindsay\_support](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/lindsay_support/32/4508_2.png) [@lindsay\_support](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/lindsay_support)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 2:49am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/4 "2026-02-12T02:49:01Z")
@kenlyle would you mind either replying here or sending an email to [info@pickaxeproject.com](mailto:info@pickaxeproject.com) with the name of the Pickaxe and, if possible, the session ID (which you can find in Message Insights)? ---
**Author:** ![kenlyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kenlyle](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/kenlyle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/5 "2026-02-12T10:07:19Z")
Unfortunately, I really can’t. I was working on a pair of PAs in a studio, and don’t recall which. It’s not like there will be a message “Pickaxe destroyed your project in progress”. This one should be pretty easy to replicate in concept, but, fortunately, seems very intermittent. ---
**Author:** ![lindsay\_support](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/lindsay_support/32/4508_2.png) [@lindsay\_support](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/lindsay_support)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/6 "2026-02-12T17:34:30Z")
@kenlyle very fair! I appreciate you reporting it - if you can give me the name of the Studio I will do a bit of digging. Otherwise if you could let us know the next time it happens, I would be very grateful - we definitely don’t want users losing their work! ---
**Author:** ![hurmuli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hurmuli](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/hurmuli)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/closing-the-there-is-an-unsaved-draft-banner-wipes-the-pickaxe-in-progress/8062/7 "2026-02-12T17:37:50Z")
You can replicate this when creating a new Pickaxes. 1. Create a Pickaxe (DO NOT SAVE YET) 2. Start adding prompts or do changes 3. Wait a minute and do some more changes 4. You should see a message that says something about “Draft” with an X 5. Click the X to close the message (note that you are not publishing or saving the newly created Pickaxe only trying to close the extra message) 6. Pickaxe editor closes and you lose all the changes you made Note - No new Pickaxe was created or saved as a draft.