# Unable to post reply.

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**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unable-to-post-reply/806002 "2018-01-06T22:20:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unable-to-post-reply/806002/1 "2018-01-06T22:20:08Z")

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Unable to post a reply, or for that matter, Preview fully.

I just wrote a reply in a thread. When I went to Preview, 80% of the post was simply removed, and I got only the last few sentences. So copied it to my Clipboard and wiped the Reply To screen. And pasted back. The past back was the fully reply.

Hit Preview- and the same thing happened. I’ve never seen this before. I figured eh, perhaps Preview is broken. So I hit Reply. The truncated text loaded into the thread. I deleted it all and wrote a brief post explaining why IN the thread.

Is this happening to anyone else??

[Here’s the thread, go to post# 108](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846166&page=3)

Many thanks.

( Hit Preview on THIS post, it previewed perfectly… )

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unable-to-post-reply/806002/2 "2018-01-06T23:35:28Z")

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I’ve seen some browser hangups cause weird things like this.

Try the “Microsoft fix” first (restart your browser, if that doesn’t work then restart your computer). Also try clearing your browser cache.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unable-to-post-reply/806002/3 "2018-01-07T00:22:15Z")

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Thanks- I never think to clear the Cache.