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thwill Guru  Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4311 |
Hi folks, I don't know if it is just me but I seem to regularly lose a post I'm writing when TBS logs/times me out between starting to compose and hitting [Save Post]. All is not lost if you are using the Chrome browser on Windoze. 1. [Shift+Escape] to bring up Chrome's Task Manager 2. Locate Process ID of the tab you are working in 3. [Ctrl+Shift+Escape] to bring up Windows' Task Manager 4. Navigate to "Details" tab 5. Find matching PID 6. Right-click, "Create dump file" 7. Open file in a reasonable text editor, ignore protests about not being text and having dodgy line endings 8. Search for your post, it's in there somewhere, if somewhat mangled. Hope this helps. Does anyone have a better way ? Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10310 |
Hit preview post every so often or for really big things edit in notepad++ and then paste into TBS |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4311 |
That's what I already do when I remember, it's those cases when I don't that screw me up  .Best wishes, Tom Edited 2021-09-20 23:08 by thwill MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
I don't think I've ever had a posting problem here apart from aging brain and finger trouble... and it not recognizing important, civilized things like UKP... and realizing that I've just written absolute garbage... :) {mutter} We didn't 'ave this trouble when I were a lad! All this messing about with the electrickery stuff... We 'ad proper slates and lead pencils when I were at school! {/mutter} Edited 2021-09-21 01:44 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1003 |
This relies on TBS not updating the time stamp when you edit a post. I have a very obscure and old post that no one ever replied to and is never likely to find. (Please don't look for it.) Its my scratch pad. I open it for edit and copy what is there to a text file so it can be put back later. I then build my new post as an edit to that thread, add files links whatever. You can do this over days if you want. Just save as often as you like. Just always edit the post to carry on. When ready, just get it in the clipboard and created you new thread with the contents. Go back and put the original content back in the original post. So you just need a thread where you are the last poster and need no one to add a comment to it while you are working on it. Gerry Latest F4 Latest H7 FotS |
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| ajkw Senior Member  Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
Perhaps this? Ctrl a Ctrl c or on a Mac. command a command c Regards, Anthony |
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Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Mostly I cannot post at all getting this message: "Only ASCII characters allowed in Message, no special characters ( emojis, etc )!" though I am doing nothing wrong, I also cannot copy and paste anything.  Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
likely culprits: UK pound symbol, German special characters, angled double or single quotes, em-dash (best to replace with "--"), en-dash (replace with "-"). PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Even using none of those it happens. Just today it seemed to be better, but now it shows up again. I tried anything I could and cannot find the problem, so it still is a matter of luck for me to post through or not. Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
I can just stick to short content as longer ones probably will be rejected and cannot be sucessfully corrected (what ever there is supposed to be corrected, so simply condensed) If a longer posting is rejected I will have to write it all originally new hoping to let out whatever caused it all. Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Trying out:  Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
The forum only supports the basic standard ASCII character set. The UKP symbol has never been in the ASCII character set so it's not supported. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Yes, but what is happening when I am just typing normal letters and no special symbols and my postings get rejected anyway. I cannot investigate why it is sometimes successful and why not. All I can say is that I cannot post anything within the same form after it got rejected once, so I cannot just copy and paste the text for another try. Hope this one goes through for being quite large ... Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
If it thinks a particular sequence is a smiley that it doesn't recognise then that will be rejected. There'll be *something* non-standard in your text, but it can be a pig to find as Preview allows just about anything! Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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