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title: When a post fails
description: Find out why a post failed on a channel, retry it safely, and fix the most common causes — expired connections, media rules and daily limits.
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# When a post fails

Sometimes a platform refuses a post. Schedule & Chill keeps the post, shows you the reason, and lets you retry.

## How you find out

- A notification: **Your post failed to publish** or **Your post partially published**.
- An email with the same title, listing each failed channel and its error.
- A red banner on the **Posts** page: **… need attention — some channels failed to publish.** Click **Review failed**.
- The **Needs attention** tab on the **Posts** page.

## Read the reason

On the post card, a red box shows one line per failed channel, for example **LinkedIn: …**. The text after the platform name is the platform's own error. Open the post's details to see it next to each channel.

A post can fail on **some** channels and succeed on others. That is a **partial failure**. The channels that worked are not posted again when you retry.

## Retry a post

1. Fix the cause first (see the table below).
2. On the post card, click **Retry** in the red box.

You see **Retrying failed post now.** Only the failed channels are sent again.

For a post that failed on every channel, you can also use **Retry now** in the **…** menu or in the post details.

## Before you retry: check the platform

If you see **Publishing was interrupted before the platform confirmed it. The post may already be live on this channel — check it before retrying.**, open your profile on that platform first. If the post is already there, do not retry — you would post it twice.

## Common reasons and fixes

| Error | Fix |
|---|---|
| A **Reconnect …** button on the card, or words like *token*, *expired*, *unauthorized* | The channel lost access. Reconnect it from **Connected Accounts**, then retry. See [Reconnect or disconnect a channel](/help/channels/fix-or-disconnect). |
| **Daily … publishing limit reached (… posts).** | You published the most posts allowed for that platform today: 25 per platform, 10 for YouTube. Retry the next day. |
| **YouTube requires a video file to publish.** | YouTube needs one video. Add it and post again. |
| **Mastodon took too long to process the attachment.** | Your Mastodon server was slow. Retry. |
| **LinkedIn video did not finish processing within the allowed time** | LinkedIn was slow with the video. Retry, or use a smaller video. |
| **LinkedIn document error: file exceeds LinkedIn's 100MB limit for document posts.** | Make the PDF smaller than 100 MB. |
| **This LinkedIn account is missing its member id. Reconnect it.** | Reconnect the LinkedIn channel. |

## If the first comment fails

The post itself stays **published**. The post details show **Posted, but the first comment failed: …**. There is no retry for the comment — add it by hand on the platform if you need it.

## You cannot edit a failed post

Failed posts cannot be opened in the editor. To change the text or media:

1. Open the **…** menu and click **Duplicate**. The copy is a draft.
2. Edit the draft and schedule it.
3. Delete the failed post if you no longer need it.

Or select the post and use **Mark Draft** in the bottom bar, then edit it.