Absolutely FRUSTRATING!!!

winstonlim · Jun 5, 2012

I just spent the last 45 minutes composing a long, carefully thought-out post regarding publishing my work as an e-book - with marketing and publicity plans in case other people might be interested - and discovered to my horror that somehow, I'd been logged out of the site without my knowledge or any kind of warning.

Of course I only found out AFTER I'd pressed the PREVIEW button and was told to log-in. The original posting page where I'd typed everything was no longer recoverable so that every word I'd typed was irrevocably lost.

shadowwalker · Jun 5, 2012

My sympathies. I've learned the hard way to copy and save posts of anything more than a few sentences before pressing any buttons...

stormie · Jun 5, 2012

Oh, been there, and felt like smashing the computer to bits. Yep, I feel your pain.

When I do remember, I highlight the post mid-way through, copy it and paste it into notepad. This way if I accidently delete it (or I get signed out like you were) I still have some of it.

alleycat · Jun 5, 2012

We've all done it at some time or the other. I generally do it when I accidentally hit the wrong key. Some times you can back up and retrieve something, but often you can't.

In the future, if you do make a long post, try to remember to do an Edit > Copy before you click anything else. You don't have to actually paste it anywhere.

poetinahat · Jun 5, 2012

Or compose in Notepad. Yep, done that... and I've hit -backarrow- instead of -return- many times, which ones to the same thing. Commiserations, Winston!

I chalk it up to a sacrifice to the Muses.

muse · Jun 5, 2012

The same thing almost happened to me today. Luckily, when I went to post the page came up saying I was logged out and I quickly hit the back arrow to go back to my post and was able to copy it before I logged back in.

Maryn · Jun 5, 2012

Yep--back arrow soon enough, an the post is usually still there for copying and saving, to repost after you've signed in.

I agree, though, it's frustrating to lose any writing on which you spent the time to get it just right. I usually temper that with, I hope that's the worst thing that happens to me today.

Maryn, fatalist

leahzero · Jun 5, 2012

Make this a muscle memory when composing on ANY message board:

Control-A. Control-C.

I do it before I hit any submit/preview button. It's saved me lots of heartache.

dclary · Jun 5, 2012

Writing is rewriting. The second effort will be better anyway.

winstonlim · Jun 5, 2012

I thought it was just a glitch in the service on my end. Anyway, I am going to compose the whole post again on WORD and then just cooy and paste.

Absolutely FRUSTRATING!!!

winstonlim

Just an old beach bum.

shadowwalker

empty-nester!

stormie

storm central

alleycat

Still around

poetinahat

Numbers are beautiful

muse

standing on head, typing one-handed...

Maryn

I Tried

leahzero

The colors! THE COLORS!

dclary

Unabashed Mercenary

winstonlim

Just an old beach bum.