GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

James81 · Nov 9, 2009

How many times does this need to happen to me before I realize that I need to always, ALWAYS copy/paste what I write to my clipboard before I choose to take any kind of action with a post?

I just wrote a 2000 word post on my blog, thinking that it autosaves every couple of minutes anyway. And at the end, I hit "Save Draft" and it took me to the damn login screen. When I hit the back button the page automatically refreshed and nothing was there.

Blech, now I don't even want to write anymore. Is there anything worse than going back and rewriting a big chunk of what you've already written?

GAAAAAAAH! <---this is me, frustrated as all hell right now.

tjwriter · Nov 9, 2009

What happens if you log in at the screen?

I only ask that because here at good ole AW, if I take too long to write a post and I'm not set to stay logged in, it prompts me to log in. Once I do that, voila! it posts whatever I was intending to do before I became too distracted to finish.

So, I'm wondering if you might have the same issue and hitting the back button just screwed you over instead of helping things.

ad_lucem · Nov 9, 2009

James81 said:
How many times does this need to happen to me before I realize that I need to always, ALWAYS copy/paste what I write to my clipboard before I choose to take any kind of action with a post?

I just wrote a 2000 word post on my blog, thinking that it autosaves every couple of minutes anyway. And at the end, I hit "Save Draft" and it took me to the damn login screen. When I hit the back button the page automatically refreshed and nothing was there.

Blech, now I don't even want to write anymore. Is there anything worse than going back and rewriting a big chunk of what you've already written?

GAAAAAAAH! <---this is me, frustrated as all hell right now.

Ouch! That's painful! I did that on a post for class a while back and wanted to bang my head against a brick wall until passing out.

We all try to remember to type things up in word then copy/paste...I know...but there will always be those times when it happens. Grrrr, awful.

((HUGS))

regdog · Nov 9, 2009

Sorry about that. I've lost things that I've written. Saved stories only to reopen them and see half of what I saved is gone.

Yeah computers, making our lives better

James81 · Nov 9, 2009

the anger sharks are still swimming around in my head

regdog · Nov 9, 2009

James81 said:
the anger sharks are still swimming around in my head

Throw someone you don't like to them :evil

KTC · Nov 9, 2009

There is only one H in GAH.

truelyana · Nov 9, 2009

Don't worry, it's not the end of the world.
Just look at it this way, you can write better and differently on the next turn.

bettielee · Nov 9, 2009

I hope you've learned your lesson, James.

(bettielee
who hasn't learned her lesson, yet)

regdog · Nov 9, 2009

KTC said:
There is only one H in GAH.

Just had to rub that in.

James81 · Nov 9, 2009

KTC said:
There is only one H in GAH.

FUUUUUUUUU

KTC · Nov 9, 2009

Sorry. I had to. It's who I am. (-;

I am sorry that you lost your words. It's happened to me. I feel your pain.

Honalo · Nov 9, 2009

I had anger sharks last week
I kept on delaying the automatic updates for my computer until I was done writing a story and then left for lunch with the story on the screen and came back and .... story gone, computer rebooted. I figured, no prob, auto save will retrieve it. Nooooo.
I searched and found auto save only saved every 10 minutes and I guess the updates kicked in before the save took place ... so I updated the save to occur every 2 minutes now.
But that was it for me for the rest of the day - I couldn't touch that story until the following day.

Matera the Mad · Nov 9, 2009

I used the Live Journal spell checker once, just for the heck of it. It ate my post, just for the heck of it.

Cassiopeia · Nov 9, 2009

*sigh* Oh well, sucks to be you. *beans you on the head* STOP DOING THAT!

Okay, problem solved? yes?

My job is done here.

regdog · Nov 9, 2009

KTC said:
Sorry. I had to. It's who I am. (-;

We all know that :roll:

scarletpeaches · Nov 9, 2009

Doesn't your blog host have a list of posts somewhere and possibly one of them is saved under 'drafts'? I know blogger does this.

James81 · Nov 9, 2009

scarletpeaches said:
Doesn't your blog host have a list of posts somewhere and possibly one of them is saved under 'drafts'? I know blogger does this.

Yeah, and any other time at least part of the post would've been saved. But for some ungodly reason, it didn't do that today.

scarletpeaches · Nov 9, 2009

Then I feed your sharks with some of my own.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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