# Error message when editing posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-message-when-editing-posts/193692>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 13, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-message-when-editing-posts/193692 "2021-06-13T17:31:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slowhand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/slowhand/32/57436_2.png) [@Slowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slowhand)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-message-when-editing-posts/193692/2 "2021-06-13T17:46:20Z")

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I was just starting a thread about this myself. Our users are having the same issue while editing their own posts. They get a message about an “Edit Conflict”

I experienced this myself on a Wiki post. I started an initial post, then later edited it, and when I went in to edit it again, the second edit was gone. I also had the “Edit Conflict” at the bottom. (So far, I was the only one editing this particular post, so there was no user conflict)

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/9/59698be33d390822b28a9bdead656fd03a6ec7e3.png)

This next screenshot is when I tried to enter a third article into a wiki post, but the second article had disappeared.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/1/312606dc6084928488b7fa30198efbe01270a9f1.png)

**EDIT** : users now telling me that they sometimes get an “overwrite” prompt, but if they click OK to that, all previous edits disappear

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