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There is another thread on this Board called “Cut off text” but the subject title isn't sufficient for my purposes. ~C4 does give some of the same advice there, but this is the most complete and For Dummies version I have seen around the site about lost text.
When it appears that your text has gotten eaten (Gaia is dreaming or (p)oopsing) after you hit “post,” or “send,” hitting “back” button in browser IE7 has never worked for me here. You do get the textbox you were working in, but it's blank. It worked for Whitewave (dunno her browser) as per her post in the other thread, but it's never worked for me. At least give it a try, in an emergency.
Anyone who composes live online is asking for trouble, because outages/eatages haha happen at various points in the connection: your browser, your internet connect, the site itself, etc. Too many vulnerabilties.
1. At least “select”/highlight all you have written so far and then do control+c often during your writing, so you have it unless your own computer goes out. This has saved my derriere more often than I can tell you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Best is to compose offline in your word processor, save every few sentences, save when done, and then copy-paste into the Gaia textbox (even if, as in my case, that means re-inserting all the paragraph breaks, grrrr.)
3. Another thing I do is keep a word processing program document window open ALSO when I am composing online, and instead of copying to my clipboard (item 1. above) I copy to that document, and hit save. Then EVEN if my own computer goes out, I am totally covered, unless the computer self-destructs.
But I don't always do it that way. It's a lot of clicks, but once you get it down, not too bad. I narrow the document window and keep it on the right just visible past my Gaia window which then I narrow a bit so it doesn't go all the way to the right of the screen, so I can click into the document window easily. Don't have to see the whole thing, just be able to get the cursor in there, do control+v, and hit the save icon. I call that document Save The Posts, hahaha !!!!!!
P.S. I also save the final version of ANYTHING I write, no matter how short, emails, discussion group posts, blogs, whatever, before I hit the upload or send button. But I am saving every few sentences the longer stuff too where I never know til the end whether it's the final version or not. A long post I might save half a dozen or more versions of before done. It's easy enough to delete my Save The Posts text after the posting is successful. That way that document doesn't get to be 100 pages long !!!!!!!!
Hope this saves some folks a lot of suffering and anguish.
Anyone have any other suggestions? This is SUCH a common problem, and some people have lost 3000 words, imagine the agony of that !!!!!!!!
Blessings, OM Bastet
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