I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable with Wordpress, but I've just found myself with an issue I cannot answer.

A few weeks ago I sold a Wordpress blog I no longer need/use on Flippa. As an incentive, I sold it preloaded with almost 100 articles/posts. They were in draft format and I suggested the purchaser make them go live two or three a week. These were in addition to 500+ long-standing articles

I received an email from him this morning asking what had happened to them and it seems that somehow he's managed to delete all the draft posts.

So, my question is -- once deleted, is it possible to retrieve draft posts in Wordpress? I'm guessing that the answer will be no, and my only solution will be be paste them all back in again ...