New Member introduction with questions
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I'll add a quick thanks for making the UCP the User Control Panel. Now its easier to find, even when I knew where it was..
Chris
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I would just like to say Hi
And reasure you that there are no stupid questions on this forum.
I am the king of dumb questions here.
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Hello, friends,
I just wrote a long post thanking each of you specifically, with examples of how I've put your help into action, etc., and when I went to post it, I was asked to sign in again -- and when the "Review" page opened, the form was blank. I lost everything I wrote.
I've been meaning to ask about this signing in businees, anyway. Often I'm asked to sign in three and four times in a row -- even when at the outset, my username is at the top, giving me reason to believe I'm already signed in. Is there a bug in this program? Even after I sign in two times, I find I'm not really signed in. Am I doing something that kicked me off?
I'm sorry that I'm not repeating all the nice things I said, but my time is limited. I also have another question already, but that should go into a new post.
Thanks for all your help,
Gigi -
Catwoman,
I've been having that problem with this site. I know how depressing it is to lose your post, and you wonder if you want to do it over. I began to copy a post before submitting if I had written a long one. Then I finally set Firefox to save cookies from SU forums. Are you being logged on automatically? I think that helped me stop getting bounced off.
Peter
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Hi Gigi, hi Peter,
I'm sorry to her that you also hav this issue. I have never had it but there are some people also experiencing it, see in this topic:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=9696&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a#p61223Unfortunately we have never been able to precisely identify the cause.
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Hi Gigi -- that re-sign-in & blanked out form thing happens to me often but not everytime. I've composed hundreds of thoughtful posts only to have them vanish. As a slow typist I just give up, or grab a beer and try again. Eventually (slow learner) I've learned to copy to the clipboard before hitting the submit button. That way if I have to re-log-in I can just paste the posting back in and submit again. It almost always works the second time.
Regards, Ross
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Yes, Peter, it's very depressing to lose all one has written. I often just don't have the heart to try to reconstruct everything I said, even though it short-changes the people I'm writing to. Thanks for understanding, and your advice.
That's a very interesting discussion string you linked, Gaieus. It's definitely not just a South African problem, since I've been having it so much. However, I took the advice of a few people to clear my temp. internet files and cookies and such, and at least this far (it's only been a couple of minutes), I haven't been kicked out again. And I will also copy this, so that in case I'm in front of another empty form when I try to post, I will be able to paste it back in. Hope I remember to do that, always.
Gigi
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Hello, Ross -- looks like you posted while I was writing the previous item. And as you can see, I had arrived at that same logical conclusion for a fix that you suggest -- to 'copy' before sending. My fear is that I won't remember to do it, since I'm programmed to hit any kind of "SEND" button immediately after signing my name. Will take some reprogramming.
And, incidentally, I was going to do the same with this post, so I highlighted all, and then accidentally hit Ctrl + V, rather than C, and so I pasted my previous post here, and the first one I'd written vanished for good. So I guess unless one is perfect and never makes mistakes, this isn't a fool-proof method, either.
Thanks for your sympathy, and for chiming in!
Gigi
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@unknownuser said:
and then accidentally hit Ctrl + V, rather than C, and so I pasted my previous post here, and the first one I'd written vanished for good.
In this case I just hit Ctrl+Z (Undo) - it works in Firefox at least.
Actuall, there are a couple of place where I have (had) this problem, too, and I'm already used to hit a bunch of hot keys - like in this case Ctrl+A (select all) then Ctrl+C (copy) kind of automatically.
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Yeah, Gai, I had done a Ctrl-A and then thought I was hitting Ctrl-V instead of the Ctrl-C I meant to hit. Just a dumb accident. I haven't tried doing Ctrl-Z to see if I can back out of it, but if it happens again, I'll sure give it a try! Thanks!
Gigi
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