How often has this happened to you?
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Topic: How often has this happened to you?
Posted By: Logan
Subject: How often has this happened to you?
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 15:06
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I just spent more than an hour preparing a rather well-thought out (at least by my ridiculously low thinking standards -- not being self-deprecating; it's just the honest truth) and cross-referenced post. Sadly, with a misclick of a button just as I was finishing, I lost the whole thing. I have 7 buttons on my mouse and a bit of a tremor due to my horrendous nicotine and caffeine addiction. I know all about copying your posts periodically, or preparing in Notebook, Word, or Outlook etc, but I didn't want to lose the default format (font etc.). I was having to open up many pages from other parts of this site for cross-referencing purposes, copying little bits, and pasting them into my post so all that is left is this --> 3.67 Excellent addition to any prog music collection ../Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=12923#reviews">  - and I didn't even write that.How very stupid of me. Has happened twice with a misclick (only ever at this site), but this was by far the most time-consuming yet that I lost, and one of my longest posts period. Another time my daughter pulled out the plug of the computer, and another time she turned it off during an important work assignment with a very short deadline (my computer saved that however, and when using programs for work I have them set to save periodically anyway). I like to say that the joy is in the writing, but since I work as an editor, researcher, and writer of boring documents primarily, I should expect better of myself. Ah well, my post was excessive anyway, and I don't think the absurdism in it would've been appreciated much anyway. Any horror stories (deliberite hyperbole) of your own? |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 15:13
| The second choice. |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 15:14
| It happened to me some times. Not too horror, though. Also, rather long posts disappeared as a result of a misclicking. I have just rewritten them. I know it might be much worse. Not a pleasant feeling, though... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 15:35
| It happened to me once when I reviewed Trick Of The Tail. Apparently it disappeared because I had a URL in the text. I guess the only solution is to type it in Word or something similiar first, then copy it over. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 16:59
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I'm usually careful -- I always right-click to copy my post before hitting that submit button, which is usually good enough. I've often used Word our Outlook to compose posts -- but I find it easier at times using the post box for reviewing prior comments. This particular mistake has only happened to me a couple of times (hitting the wrong button when touching my mouse -- sounds a bit lewd) , but twice over the last couple of weeks, and I've been using forums for many years, and this mouse for years. Just the tremors causing slight loss of mouse control (one has to be very careful with it due to all the buttons that only need to be glanced -- time to replace it). For reviews (not that I've written any here), I used Word. The worst was when I was new to the Internet and not computer savvy (back in '99 or so). I was reviewing screenplays for a website, and one had to be very thorough and write very long reviews -- suggest changes in format, grammar, plot, characters... everything. I didn't know about copying and pasting... Would write my notes on foolscap and in the margins of a printed out screenplay and then expand on those notes greatly when typing my suggestions out. It would take MANY hours to prepare it, and I lost all my work on one particularly difficult and time-consuming assignment -- had required extensive rewriting -- when I hit submit and my internet session had timed out. So that forced me to get to know some basics. When I've carelessly lost posts in the past I've often re-written them, but this time it would be a post that I can't really replicate -- the basic ideas/ argument, but not the mode of expression, nuances or same sense for the absurd. I'm just not in the zone or mood -- it's a lost moment which is probably a good thing. Already forgotten most of what I wrote (and every poor pun too). |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 17:10
I never write lengthy posts; I tend to lose interest by the second sentence, and the will to live by the third...
...comes of having the concentration span of a small goldfish...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 17:30
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I don't write lengthy posts.
my posts are like "Haiku" 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 17:34
It has happened to me several times -- my sincere sympathy!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 18:08
 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 19:07
| Never; I'm careful. |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: October 07 2006 at 11:11
Once on a different forum, I spent an hour writing a guide for something before it told me I wasn't logged in. 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 09 2006 at 22:02
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Once or twice.
Usually i dont write enough so if i lose it its a big deal.   ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 03:29
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Every now and again for some obscure reason, the Forum logs me out, so I'll have spent time composing some of my usual garbage, hit 'post reply' only to have a pop up saying I'm not logged in & cannot respond to the thread.
A tad annoying. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 04:11
Ditto here!
Actually it never happens to me anymore while writting reviews since I type them on Word (the use of spell check and the fact that you can write paragraphs independently over a few days are also much help) and copy/paste them .
However, I had a few lengthy forum posts that I lost (no later than yesterday the last one). I find that some of those window borders where you write your posts are quite touchy.
I used to have the problem because ofan unstable connection but this is rather rare now. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Peter Rideout wrote:Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 07:51
I've always considered you to have a somewhat unstable connection, Hughes....  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 08:17
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my main computer's motherboard broke down a few weeks ago, and until i get a replacement i have been using my pentium 3 laptop. i can run internet programs ok on this but the powerful virus etc. programs (4running together) programs that you MUST have are causing it to crash occasionally, therefore i am saving suff, reviews etc. on a floppy disc (in word) as i write. therefore my work can be retrieved and pasted back into PA ok. in the early days of computing saving your work became second nature and is something i still do any way on anything i'm doing. You need quite a powerful computer to browse the internet these days because as i mentioned before the virus programs (i use macaffee) sap a lot of cpu and memory. i'm looking for a new pc at least 3 gig cpu 1 gig ram with 160 gig hard drive, which seems to be "average" nowadays! unheard of several years ago. -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 10:41
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I rarely write lenghty posts. I have, however, lost a couple of reviews over the past two years when I tried to write'em. My computer was pretty screwed at that time, so that's was the reason. The internet didn't worked as it should. It's fixed now though ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 08:40
| Happened a couple of times! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 11:28
yeah, I bet you've written all of your profound, thought provoking epithets, and you lose your connection just as you are colouring the verbs in blue and red....
....how annoying is that???
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Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 11:41
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Choice #2
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 11:44
That's a nice bridge...
That's a nice bridge...
That's a nice bridge...
That's a nice bridge... |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 11:48
I think you've just described me driving round a roundabout, looking for the right exit...
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