http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Disappearing posts . . . en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:23:34 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disappearing-posts-#post-38226 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:05:33 +0000 pipo 38226@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i also do what the geek does when i have a long post and i feel that my internet connection is a little funky. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disappearing-posts-#post-38210 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:15:26 +0000 The Geek 38210@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>When I write a long post on any website, I typically do Select All and then copy it to the clipboard before I hit the submit button.</p> <p>The meta cache tag is a problem that I need to look into. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disappearing-posts-#post-38206 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:13:33 +0000 jd2066 38206@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Unfortunitly, I don't think there is a way to get lost posts. From how I understand it the text is just kept in RAM and when text is lost it's just gone.<br /> I'm not sure but I think part of the problem on HTG would be the meta cache tag set to 0 in the header telling the browser to always get a new version of the page and in the process the browser loses text contents. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disappearing-posts-#post-38102 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:02:55 +0000 ScottW 38102@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Bob, you need to install a keylogger! I mean a friendly one, not a mean one. There must be something out there that will log your keystrokes for you, not for some nefarious purpose. I just have no idea what you would use. For me, I use #4 when a post starts getting long because I have lost them, too.</p> <p>Too bad the NSA doesn't just store their keylog files as a plain text file on your system. Or they could give us a login to ECHELON where we can access our stolen personal info! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disappearing-posts-#post-38095 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:30:47 +0000 Lighthouse 38095@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>BobJam. It happens to me a lot. But I do refresh every open tab on my browser every 2 minutes. Not supprising things get lost.<br /> And I do use your No2 :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disappearing-posts-#post-38088 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:15:35 +0000 BobJam 38088@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Every now and then I lose a post that I am composing to the "ether".</p> <p>It doesn't happen very often, but when it does it's very bothersome, particularly when I'm composing a complex thought that's going to be hard to duplicate in a redo.</p> <p>I'm wondering if there's a way to retrieve these things (and before you jump the gun with the obvious answers, see mine enumerated below) when all else fails. I mean if the NSA can retrieve this stuff, and if I typed it on my keyboard, you would think that it would be maybe in a temp file somewhere, but so far I've been unable to locate these things that seem to just evaporate (and a disconnect, for example, can cause that to happen).</p> <p>Now there are several solutions to this, but none really answers my question of how to retrieve them.</p> <p>1. Don't compose anything beyond a paragraph or a few sentences, like in IM's. (I've done this now and then, but it's not really a solution as much as it is a pre-emptive measure, plus this eliminates any effort to explain a complex situation).</p> <p>2. Compose in Notepad, save, and then copy and paste into the posting window. (Sometimes I remember to do this, particularly when I have a complex or lengthy thought, but I'm looking for the solution for those times that I just type away in the posting window and don't do this and the post "disappears" before I hit the "Send Post" button.)</p> <p>3. Save the post periodically to a Notepad file (a variation on the solution above, but still not an answer to my question).</p> <p>4. Use the back button of the browser. (Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.)</p> <p>5. View the history in the browser. (Again, sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.)</p> <p>6. Search on a keyword you remember from the post, and look for a file with a time stamp around the time the post was made. (I've tried this, but it's never worked).</p> <p>So, my question is: When the solutions above don't work, how can I retrieve what I typed. It seems like it's GOT to be somewhere. Is there any software, short of an expensive recovery utility (if that's all there is, then I'll just suffer through a redo . . . and I'm not talking about deleted files . . . that's a whole different topic), that will do this??</p> <p>(BTW, I DID compose this in Notepad before posting it). </p>