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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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.. and though I've used computers since the days of green text, I have always operated a 'need to know' policy - basically, if I could think of any reason why I didn't need to know, I didn't WANT to know.
Now I usually compose my posts in Word, and paste the result into the reply panel, but I've been lazy over the sast few days, and have typed directly into the reply screen. (Incidentally, I've noticed that, deprived the auto spell-check, I've managed to make at least one typo in virtually every post - which deprives me of any right to criticise anyone else. It's just that I've got stubby fingers, or at least that's my excuse!)
Anyway, back to the point. I was working on a response in the 'Hugging' thread, in connection with which I'd done a load of google-type research and had almost completed a longish post - total time investment at least a couple of hours. I had lots of tabs open and, due to a technical problem known in the trade as rank stupidity, I inadvertently deleted the reply window.
There it was - gone! - and a couple of hours of time-investment with it.
Now can any practically-minded person tell an impracical idiot whether ther is any way in which the lost work can be retrieved and, if so, in words of no more than two syllables, how he can do that?
Please reply quickly, I'm developing mildly suicidal tendencies already!!
Btw, I'm running MS Vista, so you'll probably regard me as certifiably insane in any event.
Stupid (but hopeful) Cossie.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Bruv.....unless it did an auto back up of the file its like gone forever.
I am not aware of how Vista works, look and see if there is a recover function. Thats the best I know to do.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Actually, there is a way to get it back but it is three sylables....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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... but help! I'm drowning!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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It's a feature of browsers that they lose text when the window is closed, I'm afraid. Been there, done that, sworn a lot.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I used periodically to copy and paste the text in the window so that if I inadvertently closed it, I would still have a reasonably up-to-date version in the clipboard. Of course, that relied on remembering to do that.
These days, however, I use the Safari web browser. Timmy, you're not quite right in your implication that this behaviour is a feature of all browsers. Safari gives you a pop-up that says, 'Are you sure you want to close this window?' if you've entered anything in an on-screen form and not submitted it. It's saved my bacon quite a few times.
I've never used the Windows version of Safari, though one does exist -- see: http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Cossie, you might like to play around with it and see if it's worthwhile using it, at least to visit this board, if the feature is important enough to you.
David
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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,,, for not making this post last night. I meant to, but it was overlooked.
I guess I'll be going on Safari!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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