One thing that irritates me more than it probably should is when I've written a whole long response to a comment or post, then I accidentally press some button on the keypad, and the whole thing is gone and irretrievable.
Why is it possible to do this??
And then of course, you just stare at the screen, thinking, "Do I really want to type all that up again?" The thought of it is nauseating. Yet you had something important to say and you don't want it to go unsaid, damn it!
Generally, I end up writing a much abridged version of the original.
I remember I was once in a big online argument with some woman about homebirth, and I made a bunch of arguments I thought were really strong. She replied to me, "I wrote this big reply with all these links refuting your arguments, but it got deleted before I could post it, and I just don't have the time to write it again." Well, you can't argue with that, can you?
Ctrl-Z (command Z if you are on Mac) and your lost text would come back unharmed! Works most of the time unless you have closed the browser or turned off the computer of course.
ReplyDeleteI just tried it, and it didn't work :(
DeleteThat's strange. Usually works for me. You have to apply this shortcut right after you lose the text though.
DeleteIt's essentially telling the software to undo whatever your last action was.
DeleteOne thing that makes the text disappear for me is when I'm typing a comment and I click on something outside the comment box, then forget I'm not in the comment box, and press Backspace. That goes back to a different screen, and everything is lost. I tried the Ctrl-Z and it didn't fix it just now.
DeleteThat used to happen to me all the time before I started using Firefox, which saves all the text as long as I click the forward button to get back to where I was!
DeleteFizzy: Ctrl-Z only works if you are still in the same page, if you navigated away to another page it wouldn't fix it.
DeleteChivas: From my experience many pages would not retain the original text even if you click forward to get back to where you were. I am thinking it's possibly something to do with the formatting of the particular webpage.
Common gripe for me. Grumpy has missed out on a lot of howlers!
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest that, any comment longer than a line (or two) gets moved to your most freindly editor e.g. the one in your emailer, from which you can 'save as a draft'.
ReplyDeleteIMO this "Blogging and Forum" basics 101.
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Roger
There is an addon for firefox called Lazarus, it allows you to restore anything you typed within a configurable time period (default 4 hours) with loss of a few seconds at worst, Since I started using it I never had that problem :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I realize that my comment is more than a few lines, I cut and paste it into my email editor and finish up the comment in my email editor. I then cut and paste it back into the comment section when I've finished. This adds only a few extra seconds and I've never lost a single comment ever since I started doing that.
ReplyDeleteLike someone else said, check out Lazarus: Form Recovery. You can get it for Chrome or Firefox.
ReplyDeleteI used to do this on my netbook. I would be typing away and go to type shift-A to write a capital A and instead hit the ctrl key instead of shift which would highlight the text and the next letter I typed would erase it all ... pain in the a..
ReplyDeleteActually Ctrl-F works in precisely this scenario. Try and do it right away - reply to my comment, pretend that you accidentally did the Ctrl-A mistake and erased all your text, and try to retrieve it with Ctrl-Z. It would work.
DeleteI mean Ctrl-Z works in precisely this scenario.
DeleteControl Z works IF (and this is a HUGE if) you don't type anything after you have done the delete. I'm going to check out Lazarus. The whole rising from the dead thing kind of appeals to me but maybe that's because I have been watching so much Walking Dead.
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