Preview and Submit fail
- robcat2075
- Posts: 1867
- Joined: Sep 03, 2018
I often find that if I press "Preview" or "Submit" on a post, everything is lost and only a blank entry form is returned.
It seems to happen more if one of those "verification" screens comes up in between.
It seems to happen more if one of those "verification" screens comes up in between.
- robcat2075
- Posts: 1867
- Joined: Sep 03, 2018
I've learned to always do a CTRL-A and CTRL-C on my text before I do a "Preview" but I notice today that any attachments that had been uploaded disappear also.
- mgladdish
- Posts: 155
- Joined: Oct 10, 2021
I've been getting this too. Thankfully on desktop if I use the back button my post data is still there and I can submit for the second time.
- BGuttman
- Posts: 7368
- Joined: Mar 22, 2018
[quote="mgladdish"]I've been getting this too. Thankfully on desktop if I use the back button my post data is still there and I can submit for the second time.[/quote]
And if you accidentally post twice I will delete the extra one. :good:
And if you accidentally post twice I will delete the extra one. :good:
- CalgaryTbone
- Posts: 1460
- Joined: May 10, 2018
I've had this problem too - it's especially frustrating when you take the time to write a thoughtful response and all of your work is lost. Any fix that's possible?
Jim Scott
Jim Scott
- CalgaryTbone
- Posts: 1460
- Joined: May 10, 2018
It just happened to me again! A post that I put a lot of thought and time into disappeared as soon as I hit send!
Is there a way to save it so you can resubmit it? This has happened way too many times to me in recent months!
Jim Scott
Is there a way to save it so you can resubmit it? This has happened way too many times to me in recent months!
Jim Scott
- AtomicClock
- Posts: 1094
- Joined: Oct 19, 2023
I find that on some forums (not sure about this one), too long of a delay between opening the composition window and hitting submit is a recipe for lost posts. That's consistent with your "a lot of thought and time". I've gotten into the habit of copying into a Notepad document before hitting submit.
Sometimes hitting the browser's BACK function is enough to recover the post. Again, I don't recall if that works here on TC.
Sometimes hitting the browser's BACK function is enough to recover the post. Again, I don't recall if that works here on TC.
- AtomicClock
- Posts: 1094
- Joined: Oct 19, 2023
[quote="CalgaryTbone"]Is there a way to save it so you can resubmit it?[/quote]
It just happened to me. I was able to hit my browser's (firefox) back button, and there was my text. I just had to hit submit again.
It just happened to me. I was able to hit my browser's (firefox) back button, and there was my text. I just had to hit submit again.
- CalgaryTbone
- Posts: 1460
- Joined: May 10, 2018
I tried that with Safari and it didn't work. It's happening more to me these days, because I have a broken arm, and the cast makes it awkward to type with my right hand. I'm already a slow "hunt and peck" typist.
It's teaching me "patience" (or some version of that, anyway).
JS
It's teaching me "patience" (or some version of that, anyway).
JS
- Posaunus
- Posts: 5018
- Joined: Mar 23, 2018
This just happened to me too. I had composed a reply to a post (fortunately only a single paragraph) and thought I should "Preview" it before submitting. When I hit "Preview" I got sent to Cloudflare - and when I returned to my post it was gone. I had to re-compose the entire reply. This is extremely annoying! Now I have learned to copy my complete draft post to my clipboard before previewing - or composing in Word and then pasting into TromboneChat.