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Hi, I am a fairly slow typer (not typist) and sometimes it takes a while to formulate type and check a post before submitting it. Autosave is my friend here.

But occasionally when using the default quick editor, when I finally do get to submit my post, I get a dialogue box asking me if I want to leave the page with Leave or Cancel options and a square I can tick to prevent the procedure from creating more dialogue boxes.

If I select Leave, the material I have ready to contribute is permanently lost and the screen rolls back to the thread I was viewing when I decided to contribute.

If I select Cancel, the quick reply box remains exactly the same except that the Leave dialogue box disappears and then returns, unless I have ticked the don't create more dialogue boxes square, in which case the dialogue box goes away and I have the reply box left on screen, i.e. in either case the contribution is not accepted and added to the thread, and the little "I'm working on it" 'spinner' at the browser tab spins indefinitely.

I can however select Go Advanced and after about 30 seconds or so the advanced editor will come up with a formatted preview and the contribution I am trying to make ready for editing, and I can save from this window and find my contribution attached to the thread within a second or so.

This whole issue is not regular, and happens to maybe 1% of my attempts to post, but I wonder why it happens and whether there is anything I can do to avoid it? Thanks for any input.

I have had that happen to me and I have no idea what is going on except that the contents of my post evaporate.

To prevent a total loss I copy my post to the clipboard before doing anything and then if it evaporates I can paste it to a new reply.

I think is a windows thing because I encountered it on another site as well.

I don't think it's a windows thing, i think it might be a browser thing though. Certainly this forum is the only vBulletin site I frequent so it's the only one I actually see it on.... I see it very infrequently, and since the most recent upgrade I typically see doubled up messages within a single post (like it's posted twice and thinks that the second has been an edit, and shows an "old text / new text" layout)

I've encountered this on both my older and new Mac

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Originally Posted by poundy

I don't think it's a windows thing, i think it might be a browser thing though. Certainly this forum is the only vBulletin site I frequent so it's the only one I actually see it on.... I see it very infrequently, and since the most recent upgrade I typically see doubled up messages within a single post (like it's posted twice and thinks that the second has been an edit, and shows an "old text / new text" layout)

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I use Opera.

I use Firefox.

Generally Opera, rare occasions Firefox but I keep that set permanantly for private windows for online banking and use Opera for general stuff.

I get it on Chrome as well. I click 'leave' and my stuff gets posted as normal.

I have been getting this as well, and often it creates a double-post when I click leave. Seems to occur predominantly when using my phone.

When writing a post on ANY forum now, I have and empty notepad file on the desktop, I open it before I post or preview and always right click, select all, copy and past into the empty text file. A few clicks to save a lot of annoyance and time if the site locks / spits the dummy / looses everything I just typed or responds with "Computer said NO" :D

I must admit - have posted things to the wrong place on Facebook recently by accident - have clicked and then gone to the next and posted as to the previous -caused some confusion - both from them and later me -till I worked it out.Look at screen when typing and know where its going.

Usually happens when you inadvertently cancel or use back button or have spent too long on a post and the program thinks you've abandoned it.

I have had it happen once on here and clicked on the leave button. The post I made appeared in the thread.

I love auto save because I often have to attend to other matters before I finish a post or thread and often come back to a shut down computer. The auto save will bring up the info I was working on when I go back to the same post or thread.

If I know I'm going to leave for a time before finishing I hit CTRL A (select all) then CTRL C (copy) if the auto save hasn't shown before I leave. Then as MandJ said in his post above, I paste it to Notepad for either saving or to retrieve later if the forum shuts down on me and the auto save isn't up to date.

are in mind that if you take too long sometimes a post won't show as the program thinks it's been abandoned. In this case Auto Save should fix the problem for you if you are shut out or lose the post.

If you do copy and paste to somewhere else as a backup, please do it to note pad... Not to Word or or any other desktop publishing program as these can incorporate html code into what you have typed and that's not a good thing to have on here. Note pad will keep it as plain text.

Was asked with the above to Leave or Cancel probably because I had been at it for a long time.

Message said something like: If you leave this site, changes you've made may not be included.

All went through as expected.

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