Posted by Paul
(here)
Posted by Satori
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Help
I spent over an hour writing a response to Karma Ninja's post #25 and accidently hit "Go Advanced" rather than "Post Quick Reply" Now I cannot find my post anywhere. Is it gone? Can it be retrieved?
Geez.
Your draft response should have still been available to continue editing it, when you clicked "Go Advanced"
Indeed, I just test this myself, on this post. I wrote the previous paragraph "Your draft response ..." in the reply box right below your post, and then clicked "Go Advanced" to continue editing this post, adding this present paragraph.
In any event, I looked in the forum logfiles, and nothing more than what we can see you successfully posted ever made it to the forum server. So ... sorry ... it's gone.
Some more "modern" forum platforms, not the vBulletin that we use, upload drafts in progress, but our software doesn't. That's unfortunate, but there is no easy remedy that I know of.
So the usual recommendation is to prepare long replies in a text or note editor, and then copy and paste them into the forum reply box. I prefer to use Lazarus Firefox add-on, but that add-on is currently not maintained, and no longer working for some users. Perhaps some other software developers will step forward to maintain Lazarus.