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Post lost after submission
Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 8:01 pm
by gameswat
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 6:26 am
by gameswat
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:11 pm
by pennymachines
I'm very sorry to hear that - I feel your pain.
Bryans Fan mentioned recently that he was being logged out between sessions. I'll have to investigate.
As for your above posts not going live, I think it's because I currently have the Announcements restricted to Admin with other posters needing approval to go live. Anyway, I've now 'released' your posts and moved them to the Feedback category.
Currently I use Firefox addon
Form History Control (II) to avoid such catastrophes.
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 8:00 pm
by bryans fan
pennymachines wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 4:11 pm
Bryans Fan mentioned recently that he was being logged out between sessions. I'll have to investigate.
All works fine on my android phone, but not on Windows 10 using Chrome .
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 8:40 pm
by badpenny
Sadly now that Lazarus has stopped being useful as a form recovery app this is a problem and not just on this forum.
Being a sad git I I also contribute to canalwod.net and PVCheaven.com, if I anticipate contributing more than a couple of lines I do a draft in Word (actually I use Open Office as I object strongly to paying hundreds for a Microsoft Office licence when Open Office is free and almost compatible)
Then I paste and copy onto the forum, then if it all goes breasts vertical then all I have to do is paste again and add the photos.
BP
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 11:13 pm
by gameswat
Sadly I'm more of a stream of consciousness type of poster BP. It started out as just a quick 5 min job about something of interest I found on a workbench while cleaning up......but after way too much thought as I wrote it just grew. And I have lots of exciting projects on the go right now so really didn't plan on wasting that much time.......Was a hell of a post though, surely a dead certainty for the all-time top 10 list.
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 9:20 am
by arrgee
Sympathize with you GM, I had a similar experience a while ago but before I took any action I selected the whole text and copied it to the clipboard, when I returned I pasted it into the empty box.
Having lost some important files many years ago, I go overboard with back-ups and cautious procedures through the world of electronic wizardry.
Re: Post lost after submission
Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 10:08 am
by ddstoys
Had similar happen - it's never on a short post though. You just lose all motivation to type it out again.