really ticked me off!

[mdmc]

I cant type, I peck.
After spending an hour pecking out a post, i lost the whole thing.
my previous post to this is an extremely abbrevieate version of the original.
Colorfull sailor language,
Mark.

[Lara]

I'm sorry Mark. What happened? Was the post real long? Maybe it went over the limit of space per post?

If you are going to write up a long post, I suggest you use notepad or wordpad to save your text and avoid losing everything you typed out in the future.

[mdmc]

I'm sorry Mark. What happened? Was the post real long? Maybe it went over the limit of space per post?

If you are going to write up a long post, I suggest you use notepad or wordpad to save your text and avoid losing everything you typed out in the future.

Thanks for the reply,
I dont know what happened. Most likely it was my fault. I was just venting, not blaming the site.
I did not know there was a limit on the size of the posts. I may have, but I doubt that I exceded the limits.
Mark.

[Lara]

Maximum characters per post is something like 50,000, so unless you wrote a short novel ;) I would say it wasn't that.

It's okay to vent! I get "vented" on a lot, lol.

[another view]

It's happened to me too. If I've got a long reply, I usually highlight the whole thing and copy (right click on PC). If it doesn't submit for some reason, I can go back and paste it back in. Sometimes hitting refresh helps too.

[Sebastian]

It also helps to make the post in something like Wordpad or Text Edit. That way when the interweb inevitably f-s up you have something to go back to.

[Lara]

Sebastian read my post above. I said that. heheh

[Photo-John]

It's happened to me too. If I've got a long reply, I usually highlight the whole thing and copy (right click on PC). If it doesn't submit for some reason, I can go back and paste it back in. Sometimes hitting refresh helps too.

My wireless connnection at home is always dropping me. Whenever I get paranoid before submitting, I copy the whole thingm just in case. Inevitably, the stupid wireless connection sneaks up and gets me anyway. All electronics are out to get me.

[Sebastian]

Sebastian read my post above. I said that. heheh

Bah! Reading's for geeks.

[Lara]

LOL Sebastian, then call me a "geek."

[opus]

I would say *most* of the time, when that happens to me (as long as my browser didn't quit or the window close on me) I can hit my 'back' button one or two times and reclaim the text -- it's still sitting in the window.

At that point I will NOT simply re-post, I will highlight the whole thing and save it to a text document, then go into the original thread and click on "post reply" again and start over, only this time I just paste the text in.

[SmartWombat]

Maybe an offline reader/responder would be an interesting software project

[almo]

I cant type, I peck.
After spending an hour pecking out a post, i lost the whole thing.
my previous post to this is an extremely abbrevieate version of the original.
Colorfull sailor language,
Mark.

Oh man, I know the pain of losing an entire post, but then again I type 40 wpm so I can crank out a new one quickly enough....

[mdmc]

Thanks for all of your replies, misery loves company!
i'll learn to save it, OK?
Mark.