Hell..p.. me..... I lose my posts

[Trifna]

It is aweful. I wrote a post for Apolyton. It took around three hours. I pressed "Post". It brang me to the login page. I clicked on my browser to get to the page before. My post is not there. My heart contracted, my eyes almost getting wet. My energy barometer just went down.


Do you know a program or something to circumvent this, to remember what I just wrote in a email/forum window or something? You quickly understand why a punishment for war prisoners was to dig a hole and fill it back.

[alva]

Select text ---> Control C

Edit:

[Snowflake]

Poor Trifna. Sometimes I just click on refresh and my post will be submited. If you click on back half of the time your post will be lost.

[Provost Harrison]

It's a piece of steaming crap...I've had it happen, fortunately only with short posts (which seem to comprise most of mine )

[Japher]

yup, keep 'em short... Or, for those long ones (if you are so inclined to right those) I generally copy them to word or notepad for safe keeping before hitting submit.

[alva]

Why copy them at all?? Isn't that why you have a clipboard in the first place?

[DrSpike]

You don't even need to actually copy them anywhere. Always Ctrl-C a large post just in case.......especially in times of server trouble.

[Dis]

3 hours for a post

now that is dedication.

[Ming]

The minute I notice that it's taking some time, I just control "C" it ASAP... With super long posts, I ALWAYS control "C" it before hitting submit.

[Apocalypse]

Yeah, ctrl c is good. If it's a long post filled with actual content, I've done it in Word in the past for spelling/grammar checks. Since most posts here have no actual content...there isn't much point

[Dis]

I've also noticed I don't seem to lose posts with firefox. at least not as often as internet explorer. but I don't think I've had a forum timeout since I have firefox. Atlhough I have had server busy messages. That seems to kill everything. hitting the back button also gives a server busy message.

[Ming]

[ixnay]

Or use Opera since it caches anything you write in forms so that it'll be there when you hit back.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, Firefox saves text as well. You can go back and still have your stuff.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by ixnay
Or use Opera since it caches anything you write in forms so that it'll be there when you hit back.