Anyone seen somthing like this?

[Prairie_Seagull]

Wrote, for me, a fairly long post yesterday and hit post and only the first sentence posted. I proofed and all looked good except possibly the spelling. I deleted and moved on. Wish I had saved first.

Just an FYI.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

1. I used a special character set in a long, heavily formated post...

it was a less than sign followed by 3 dashes to create an arrow pointing to the left to highlight one of the lines of text. When I hit post everything from right at the symbols and after disappeared. I couldn't even remember what all I had typed because I had it all formatted and tabbed. I don't even remember what it was about now, I was so discouraged after that.

[usonian]

2. I've had all kinds of weird things happen.

Worst one is when the network hangs up while I am previewing, it asks me to go back and repost the form and the text vanishes. Sometimes, it is still there.

I do recall typing in some "special to HTML" characters and not seeing stuff in the preview. I do hope that when this happens, the text is still in that big text box, despite vanishing in the preview or post. ( in Preview mode, look for it at the bottom. After a post, "go back" )

Worst goof ( on phone ) is when I punch the wrong button, (with my fat fingers) go somewhere completely different, and lose my typing.

My solution, which only works on desktops is called the GhostText browser extension. As I type (I just invoked it) the text I am typing appears in my text editor of choice (in my case SublimeText) and vice versa.

It's for experienced computer users to install and get working, so I am not going into any detail, but the neat thing is that the text is saved "forever" in the text editor.

[Prairie_Seagull]

3. I have a utility for my clipboard that I could have easily copied the text to

but am not really in the habit of using (except when In MIRT) If I see this is becoming more of an issue I will start using again. I do too much financial shit to have my text automatically logged. I am not a pro like you.

Thanks,