Or maybe there’s just a time-lag, but I have noticed that although some of my answers appear instantly, some never appear at all, which makes me think I have to re-write them.
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PS: I DO hit Submit
The first thing to check, Quasi, is whether you’re hitting the Submit button.
Quasi? You might want to check whether or not you are clicking on the “Submit” button.
Now, now, let’s play nice …
I lose one every month or so. The board’s database has been crashing fairly often these days and if your [submit] happens to coincide with a crash, your message may be lost.
If you think it’s happening more often than that, the problem may be a flaky internet connection at your end.
Having lost a few magnum opuses to one cause or another (and being blessed with a flaky internet connection), I’ve taken to grabbing my post onto the clipboard just before hitting submit. Just Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and I’ve got it saved. Then [Submit] & wait for the page to come back.
If something goes stupid & my post is lost, I just hit quick reply & Ctrl-V to re-create my entire post. Saves a lot of cursing.
Not if your computer locks up or crashes (which mine does once or twice a month. I paste mine into Notepad and save it with the name “0”. Easy to save. Easy to recall if necessary.
I think the notepad idea is a good one. You know something else that happens (and I know that I - well my fingers - are the culprit) is I’ll be writing merrily along and suddenly my finger will strike a key that makes the whole post disappear and I have to start all over.
When it happens 80% of the way to the end, you would not want to be around me.
My wife calls it “Hulking Out” (which I think she got from our son).
I have tried searching for the post in history, but cannot find it there.
Anyone know which button I hit and how to recover?
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Not sure, Quasi. But if you’re using IE8 and you hit “Ctrl+W” — say, when you meant to hit “Shift+W” — then your whole tab closes.
It does it in IE7 as well.
Hmmm. We’re still on 7. (Don’t trust 8 yet). Since I look at the screen when I type, I am not sure which fingers hit which keys, but don’t think it’s “Shift+W”. It happens at the bottom row…
I’ll test it out today… just hit random keys.
How about “Alt-Windows” keys?
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This won’t help any of you using IE, but if you’re running Firefox there is a “Save Text Area” extension that is handy for stuff like this. It’s even got an autosave feature. Check it out:
I’ve posted this in your other thread, too. I think it is the space bar.
We prefer to refer to the Æther to prevent confusing it with Ethernet and to maintain the decorous Victorian ambience of our [del]hamster cage[/del] server room.
And sometimes posts emerge out of the vortex (try to find this one on the SDMB, which arrived in my inbox a couple of days ago):
I had no trouble finding it. Of course, it was a spammer who posted it, and Marley flushed him and his reply. It’s currently hidden.
That makes you a voice from the ether.
Better a voice from the ether than a voice from the toilet.
8 is FAR superior. Trust me. 
More secure. More everything.
Okay. Based on Lib’s recoomendation, we’ll be going to 8.
Just one thing:
IE 8 is 64 bit, yes?
For some reason, I cannot play WoW on anything but 32 (heretofore, I mean).
If IE8 will work with WoW, then I’ll go for it, but if not, can my wife have 8 and I still have 7, since we’re now wirelessly connected?
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I personally prefer Lazarus Form Recovery, as it automatically saves, and can retrieve your post even after a full computer crash.