aahhhh!!!

[JohnR7]

Has anyone ever spent some time to write a post on here only to end up losing that post! I have this thing where I will try and fix a error with the backspace and all of a sudden my post is gone.

 

[lithium.]

I have lost a post a while back I pressed the backspace (but it was in Internet Explorer) and it took me back a page, and I lost everything. But now I use Mozilla, and if I press the backspace I can go forward and it will still be there. The only thing is if you press f5 (refresh) you will lose everything, and have to start all over.

 

[Havoc]

I generally compose my long posts in notepad and then paste them into the posting window. That way if the board gets a 401 or 404 or a hernia I don't lose a lot of work.

 

[budoka]

That's why I often do too, Havoc. Also it's better to press 'Preview Reply' rather than going backwards.

 

[ocean]

Yes, I have lost a post several times, and they are always the long important ones.

 

[Neo]

If you delete a post that you're typing by mistake, press ctrl+z to fix it.

 

[Bruno]

Whenever I write a new post and forget to type in the title, I lose it.

Havoc, the notepad idea is great.

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by Neo
If you delete a post that you're typing by mistake, press ctrl+z to fix it.

Hehe that doesn't help if you have pressed the backspace and went back and page, or presed refresh (like I have).

I have also been using notepad more it's a lot easier.

 

[Sauron]

Originally posted by JohnR7
Has anyone ever spent some time to write a post on here only to end up losing that post! I have this thing where I will try and fix a error with the backspace and all of a sudden my post is gone.

Oh, yeah.  Sometimes the BBS software starts to run a script on the page (changing text into smilies, or changing text from normal to bold) and it loses its place.  Or, you hang your connection to the ISP.  There are also some posters who use an excessive number of smilies in their posts - when the BBS system reaches a maximum number of them, it refuses to accept the post. And you can't backspace to retrieve the text. I've lost several posts like that.

The only suggestion I can give you is that if it's a long post, write it in Notepad first, and then save it.  Otherwise, you run the risk of losing it. 

Either that, or just before you hit the "Submit Reply" button, copy the text out of the response box and save it in a text editor.  That way if it happens again, you won't lose the entire thing. 

Good luck.

 

[TheBear]

This thread is more appropriate in the Computers, Software and Internet forum.

 

[seebs]

The one that always gets me is ^W. On Unix, "^W" is almost always used for "erase last word typed". In Mozilla, that works as long as the text cursor is active - otherwise it closes the window. On Windows, it just closes the window. Worse still, Mozilla has no feature for "don't close a window with 10k of typed text in it without prompting". I submitted a bug, and they've been arguing about it for months. They basically said "good idea", someone submitted a patch, someone else said "don't do that, I have a better idea", and it's been sitting around like that for months.

 

[GodBoy809]

yeah, i've had that happen before.

 

[MSBS]

Every time it has happened to me, I had just created a masterpiece of rhetoric, the likes of which hasn't been seen in the English language since Daniel Webster passed away.

Ahem....maybe a bit over the top, but more than once I've lost a nice big post and haven't had the heart to try and recreate it. Anymore when I do a big post, I just do it in Word (turn the WYSIWYG option off or it's a big mess when you cut and paste). That way you get to run the grammar/spell check and get rid of any embarrassing errors.

 

[webboffin]

sometimes it's best it happened lol

 

[* kittie *]

i lost one yesterday. i forgot to fill in the subject, and so when i pushed the back button...the PM was gone

 

[Hector Medina]

I chose:Yes, I think there is a glitch in the software.

Computer website systems and such always have thier bugs................

My college(San Antonio College) always has errors going on in their system.

In Christ,

Hector