[Bubbi]

I was writing a post in the CP forum and when I clicked on submit, it said I did not have permission and to refresh and sign in.
I was already signed in???


In any case the whole post was lost. Is there a reason for this or is there a glitch?
Thanks

[Curious]

i'm not sure bubbi. did your browser log you out? that can happen. you can get times out.

if i am going to post a long post, i will open up a new email or word document. that way if i have to stop for something i can go back to it later and not worry about it going *poof* into cyberspce.

i will ask if there has been any glitches.

i'm sorry about your lost post.

[OneMoreTime]

Originally Posted by Bubbi

I was writing a post in the CP forum and when I clicked on submit, it said I did not have permission and to refresh and sign in.
I was already signed in???
In any case the whole post was lost. Is there a reason for this or is there a glitch?
Thanks

Hi Bubbi ... Oh, I KNOW what that feels like, I really do.

While I could come up with a number of possible reasons, I can't prove anything.

Here are some things which might work in the future to keep you from losing a post.

1) Place your mouse cursor over the page, RIGHT CLICK and select & click on "REFRESH PAGE" - a message will display saying that information will have to be sent again - click to allow this.

2) Place your mouse cursor over the page, RIGHT CLICK and select & click on "BACK". This will bring you back to the previous page and OFTEN what you have typed will still be there in the text editor box.

OR --- Get a Gmail Account and compose your posts in Gmail -- a nifty program that saves your drafts at regular intervals - you can save something you are writing at any particular point in time by saving to draft "to send later"

I hope this never happens to you again, but try these first two things as I have used both of them successfully many times over the years.

Teri

[mrsD]

seems to be time sensitive for posting.

If you take more than the alotted minutes (don't know what they are), it will ask you again for your ID.

This has happened to me many many times. I do long posts, and sometimes search for links to support the content, and often go over that alloted time.
I just sign in again...I have never lost a post however.
(I have done stupid things other than that, and lost posts...but we don't have to get into those, do we? )

[OneMoreTime]

Originally Posted by mrsd

seems to be time sensitive for posting.
If you take more than the alotted minutes (don't know what they are), it will ask you again for your ID.
This has happened to me many many times. I do long posts, and sometimes search for links to support the content, and often go over that alloted time.
I just sign in again...

How curious. I've read your mentioning having to sign in again. I have never, in all these years on OBT, here on NT or on the many other vBulletin forums I belong to have EVER had to sign in to a single forum after I have joined -- Some places allow to select a continual signed in status. Maybe your son could help you figure out why this happens to you.

Good hopes in your direction.
Teri

[mrsD]

does this happen to me.

I log out with every finished session, now. I do not stay logged in, and let the cookies guide me. Ever since the "big down" at OBT...I have decided to log out after every use. If you choose not to log out...things might be different.

In the older versions of vBulletin I did NOT have this issue. I think it is in the software here. That is my observation!

OBT has some real glitches, worse than here BTW. I have gotten lost in a sign in LOOP there. The only way to fix it was to leave, and sign in with the little box at the top and ignore the big window sign in.

But I do not have that issue here.

[Curious]

mrsd...another way to "backdoor" into a vb forum....send yourself a link to a post. i keep one in my favorites. you can get right back in.

[OneMoreTime]

Oh MsD.... My apologies - I beg brain failure (of whatever kind!! )
I somehow ended up lumping you along with other complaints I have read, here and there, over time... which DOES mean I find you more memorable than any of them...

Hope you are snug and warm this evening. This is the first time in 2 years it has been cold enough here to run the heater.. Thank goodness the wind finally stopped, or it would be really bad by morning.

Teri