Have you written a long post, only to loose it when you hit submit?

[admin]

Some users have spent a long time writing posts and then when they are done, and hit submit, they loose all their information.

We apologize for this inconvenience. The forum will log you out after a certain time period of inactivity, and even though you are writing a post, because you haven't accessed a new page, the session thinks that you are done, and for your security and the site's as well, logs you out.

The best advice we can give you when writing a long post is to do one of two things:

1) Write your post in another program, like notepad, wordpad, or an email, and when you are done, copy and paste it into the message box.

2) Write your message in the forum message box as usual. Before you hit "Submit" or "Submit New Thread" select all your text and copy it to the clipboard. Then, if you encounter a problem on submit, the contents of your post will still be saved, you can log back in, hit reply, and then paste the message you were working on.

On windows, some shortcuts would be:

ctrl+a - select all
ctrl+c - copy
ctrl+v - paste

or, right click and copy/paste.

Good luck!

[FoolishMind]

Those who have experienced this, it is also worth noting that as soon as you realised that you have timed out, by you being prompted to enter your username and password again, simply click the back button in your browser. You will then be presented with your text again allowing you to then copy and paste your text.

[admin]

Thanks FM.

It's also worth noting that when this has happened to me, it will present me with a "log in" page. Usually if I just enter my login details again, it will actually post the message without having to go back. I have never lost a post, I just have to log back in, and after that it remembers what I was doing and posts the message.