Lost output before saving

Im working in the Playground and exploring the o3 deep-research model. Im refining my prompt and messages.

I was on my third iteration and lost my output on my second question. I had one more question to ask it, however the load failed on the second output. I have it in the logs however.

Is there a way a can ask the third question without spending the cost over again?
I guess the lesson is to save the prompt before running it on new iterations.

Have you checked the cached local history in the “…” in the playground menu?

In case that is unavailable but the logs still have your request, you can still resort to use previous_response_id to continue the conversation, but you will have to use the API using either python or your preferred language.

You can copy the response ID in the logs, and perform a follow up request.

How would I do the follow up request with the response id? After I load the previous history, I paste the response id in the assistant message using an API ?

I tried loading the history and re-asking it question 2 but it said the container expired. (I tried this first with out the response id)

That is only possible with the API, not the playground. Inform the request id in the previous_response_id parameter.

The playground is a cache of the conversation, if you have it in your history you can edit the pieces of the conversation. But it is not the same one, basically a copy (without the internal reasoning).
The container expired is usually related to code interpreter, have you enabled it in the tools? it expires after 20 minutes, losing its contents permanently.