Impossible to Post every time, works like every 4th time

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Ron,

Do you have a Windows Live account? If so, I would like to try and do a remote viewing session with you. Basically, you would be able to share your screen with me and I would be able to see what is going on. I have not been able to duplicate this, so am looking to see what is happening.

RJI

[Riverkilt]

Sorry, no clue what a windows live account is, let alonehave one.
Pretty well described what is happening – others have too.
Basic is that the quick post – and the other post – and thereply to PMs lock up when you push the button to post them.
Read what Bugbear posted
Only way to beat it is to type it up on word, copy it, pasteit VERY quickly, and hit the post button. Then, sometimes, it doesn’t lock up. It does randomly run words together after the post button is hit. They paste as typed, but after pushing thepost button they clog up here and there.

[Riverkilt]

Sorry, no clue what a windows live account is, let alonehave one.
Pretty well described what is happening – others have too.
Basic is that the quick post – and the other post – and thereply to PMs lock up when you push the button to post them.
Read what Bugbear posted
Only way to beat it is to type it up on word, copy it, pasteit VERY quickly, and hit the post button. Then, sometimes, it doesn’t lock up. It does randomly run words together after the post button is hit. They paste as typed, but after pushing thepost button they clog up here and there.

[Riverkilt]

Here’s what’s been happening.
I type a post and hit the post quick reply button
Nothing happens, it just sits there.
After about 15 -20 seconds a pop up appears in the lowerleft screen with the X Marks address for the post. But nothing else happens.
I get a long thin pop up in the center bottom of the screenwith a yellow line across the top of the pop up that says X Marks is notresponding and gives me the option to click a button that says Recover Webpageor X out.
When I hit Recover Web Page I get a pop up in the center ofthe screen that says X Marks isn’t responding and Windows is checking for asolution and a green thingie goes from left to right on a bar in the center ofthe pop up.
Then when it stops it takes me back to the webpage withoutmy post anymore.

[Piipriker]

Riverkilt, can you try this: first press the button "Reply to thread", then type your text, then press "Post quick reply"
What happens now?

If I type in the edit box without pressing "Reply to post", then nothing happens as well (Safari on Mac)
When I do it as described above, all is well.

Edit: Let's see what happens, when editing using XP and IE8 from work

[Riverkilt]

Testing Piipriker's theory.

[Riverkilt]

Okay, doingit Piipriker’s way worked – but it was also a very short post so that may alsobe why it worked.
After thatworked the edit feature on the same post didn’t work. It froze when I clicked on save.
Then, nevergot pop ups…froze so the only way out was to close the entire website. Posting this as a copy and paste from Word sohopefully it’ll post if I do it fast, but after it posts a lot of words will berun together for some reason and only way to fix that is to go back in the editfeature - which freezes up – so no wayto correct.

[Piipriker]

Hej Ron,

I wanted to reproduce your error when editíng. I even used Win XP and IE. No problem at all.
I have one question. If you pause typing or change something, does in the lower right corner of the edit box appear a yellow pop-up "Auto-Saved"?

Edit: to make it more confusing. The unedited post was made without pressing "Reply to Post" first (using XP and IE again)

[Riverkilt]

Have had the last thing happen and occasionally get auto save pop up

[tundramanq]

Riverkilt when I have a long post I build it using Notepad editor - it's a dumb Fortran editor that dosent know the editting symbols that may be messing up your copy/pastes from a smart editor. It's on all PCs ( I think ).

BTW - I use it also on other sites when writing "novella" length posts. Never gets lost - where the paste buffer is dicy.

UPDATE - I was refering to Notepad using basic ASCII symbols to prevent the goofy spacing and tabs etc. in the posts.