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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
To help get around this, I recommend that you use the Preview function reasonably often when writing a long message. When you press the Preview button your message as it stands at that moment, is saved to the database. If you find that you have lost your message because of this timeout, I can recover your work for you, up to the point that you last pressed the Preview button.
I'll put my thinking cap on and see if I can work out an easy way to recover your message in these situations where your session has timed out and you have lost all the work that you have keyed in.
Regards ... Tim.
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Thanks for the head's up on the time-out. Almost like replacement refs....
One thing that I do before trying to send one of my rare lengthy posts is to block and copy it to my clipboard. That way it is saved in case something goes wrong like a time out or a problem uploading that much data. It rarely happens, but when it does all it takes is for me to paste and resend the message to get it through the second time.
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03:17:36am
One of the problems I have is that I often start out with what ought to be a short, possibly witty, preferably informative, post.
But I tend to think "stream of consciousness" and add things here and there that I hope are not just diversions but amplify some thought. During that process I am lost both in thought and in correcting errors as well, both of spelling and grammar. (My extra large key keyboard has a sticky "e" key and so that process has to be carefully worked though.)
If I realize that a posting is going to be longer I also use the "Wordpad" feature built into my computer and then, once I have worked things out, often dealing with one or two minor crises brought on by my grandchildren, I will copy and paste the article to the thread and post it.
However the post I mentioned to Tim was one that started short and Topsey-like, just grew and grew.
Updating the preview page routinely seems like a simple workable solution.
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Charlie(cdj1122) wrote to me today about a situation that he had where he had written a thoughtful comment on a thread, taking his time about it and when he went to submit the posting his session had timed out, he was told that he had to login again, and he lost his posting. There is a system timeout that causes this. If you haven't responded to the server in a certain amount of time your session will time out.
To help get around this, I recommend that you use the Preview function reasonably often when writing a long message. When you press the Preview button your message as it stands at that moment, is saved to the database. If you find that you have lost your message because of this timeout, I can recover your work for you, up to the point that you last pressed the Preview button.
I'll put my thinking cap on and see if I can work out an easy way to recover your message in these situations where your session has timed out and you have lost all the work that you have keyed in.
Regards ... Tim.
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re: Helpful hint for writing lengthy discussion board posts
Thanks for the head's up on the time-out. Almost like replacement refs....
One thing that I do before trying to send one of my rare lengthy posts is to block and copy it to my clipboard. That way it is saved in case something goes wrong like a time out or a problem uploading that much data. It rarely happens, but when it does all it takes is for me to paste and resend the message to get it through the second time.
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29 Sep 2012
03:17:36am
re: Helpful hint for writing lengthy discussion board posts
One of the problems I have is that I often start out with what ought to be a short, possibly witty, preferably informative, post.
But I tend to think "stream of consciousness" and add things here and there that I hope are not just diversions but amplify some thought. During that process I am lost both in thought and in correcting errors as well, both of spelling and grammar. (My extra large key keyboard has a sticky "e" key and so that process has to be carefully worked though.)
If I realize that a posting is going to be longer I also use the "Wordpad" feature built into my computer and then, once I have worked things out, often dealing with one or two minor crises brought on by my grandchildren, I will copy and paste the article to the thread and post it.
However the post I mentioned to Tim was one that started short and Topsey-like, just grew and grew.
Updating the preview page routinely seems like a simple workable solution.
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re: Helpful hint for writing lengthy discussion board posts
Using "Wordpad" or similar program is another good idea.
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