Says "Already submitted"

[Chicago Bob]

But I didn't....it is not posted. How do I refresh, or am I going to loose my draft?  Thanks for the help!

This occured after being sent back due to oversized attach.

[Steve]

But I didn't....it is not posted. How do I refresh, or am I going to loose my draft?  Thanks for the help!

This occured after being sent back due to oversized attach.

Not sure what happened in your situation, but what I *always* do (on any forum) when I type a lengthy reply, is I select all of my text and copy it. That way if something screwy happens, I can just paste it back in.

[Chicago Bob]

Thanks Steve...I now remember Norma saying she does that too. I'll git 'er worked out...

[Bill/SFNM]

It may be a feature of the browser, but since I switched a few years back to Chrome, whenever I encounter such an error, when I BACK to the previous page, the text is almost always still there.

[Chicago Bob]

Bill, I'm using Chrome also and when I backpedaled it was still there but kept saying already posted...weird.

I saved it per O Great One's tutoring and all is lovely. Just had a 'lil panic attack there for a minute cause I know how badly my peeps wanted to know about my frozen Tombstone! Wheeeew....thanks fellas!!   

[Don K]

It may be a feature of the browser, but since I switched a few years back to Chrome, whenever I encounter such an error, when I BACK to the previous page, the text is almost always still there.

This works for Firefox too.

As mentioned, I also periodically copy to the clipboard when I'm typing a long post. If it's really long, I sometimes even paste it to Notepad and save it to a file just in case the computer crashes or something.

[RobynB]

I wonder if that is new to FireFox - when I was posting our build thread last year, that happened to me a few times as photos were too big/too many/whatever, and "back" did not return me to the text so I would have to start over.  It was VERY frustrating.  I learned to save the text in my browser until I was sure it posted...

[Chicago Bob]

I wonder if that is new to FireFox - when I was posting our build thread last year, that happened to me a few times as photos were too big/too many/whatever, and "back" did not return me to the text so I would have to start over.  It was VERY frustrating.  I learned to save the text in my browser until I was sure it posted...

Actually, that's how my hiccup occured come to think about it.
File size too large, corrected that and then got the "already posted" error. Didn't loose any thing...put it in notepad, signed off/on and then posted.

[Don K]

I wonder if that is new to FireFox - when I was posting our build thread last year, that happened to me a few times as photos were too big/too many/whatever, and "back" did not return me to the text so I would have to start over.  It was VERY frustrating.  I learned to save the text in my browser until I was sure it posted...

That's weird, I thought for sure that I've done that before but I just tested it and "back" doesn't work.

Anyway, there is an excellent add-on for Firefox called Textarea Cache that automatically saves the contents of any teaxtarea box. You can just right-click and bring back anything that you typed in the past. You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/

[Chicago Bob]

Don, I hear many good things about Fire Fox....can you tell me anything you don't like about it?  Thanks!

[Don K]

Don, I hear many good things about Fire Fox....can you tell me anything you don't like about it?  Thanks!

I can't think of anything that I don't like about Firefox. Chrome is good too. Anything that is NOT Internet Explorer is fine with me. I despise IE and I despise websites that use proprietary Microsoft crap that forces me to use IE.

One of the biggest things that I like about Firefox is that are tons of excellent add-ons and plugins available.