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07/01/2003 12:40:28 AM · #1 |
OK. Twice now I have writen up a long post and when I pressed Preview Internet Explorer crashes. Poof! 20-30 minutes of typing gone. (So I'm a slow typer) I even copied the last one to the clip board, in anticipation of it crashing, but that seemed to disapear too.
Has this happened to anyone else?
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07/01/2003 01:11:12 AM · #2 |
LOL, no never happened to me. What version of IE and Windows are you using? Maybe there's some character in there that you are using that causes IE to crash. You should keep up on your Windows updates.
The "clipboard" can be flaky sometimes, meaning although you copy to it (ctrl-c) sometimes it doesn't work. Copy to Notepad instead. |
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07/01/2003 03:48:32 AM · #3 |
Gotta love microsoft products. Windows suckers! (c:
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07/01/2003 03:53:29 AM · #4 |
Before you press preview, click in the box where you typed and press ctr-a to select everything in it, then ctr-c to copy it all. Then if it vanished on preview you have it on the clipboard and can go back and do ctr-v to paste it back into the box and try again. Worth doing on ANY internet forms where you have written a lot.
Alternatively, instead of going back to the original page, on the page with the error click reload. The browser has sent all the info to the other end and it will be in memory so this may work because when you hit reload you're saying "send that info again".
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07/01/2003 03:59:05 AM · #5 |
Hey Fiver, this happens to me when I use internet based email at work - sometimes the connection times out and I'd lose a long email. You could do what I do and if you have spent ages typing it out don't just stop at putting it on the clip board... If i get the feeeling that IE is going to mess things up I completely paste the text into something like notepad so that if IE does go wrong then the whole text is still available in another program so you can just re-paste it if needs be.
Hope this helps (though it won't solve the actual problem!)
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07/01/2003 04:14:48 AM · #6 |
You only encountered it TWICE. I encountered it all the time in my office network (I think it's due to time-outs).
It happens when I comment on submissions
It happens when I post in the forums
It happens even when I vote sometimes!
I just developed the habit of COPY all I've typed before I press the SEND or PREVIEW button now.
That also explains my double-posts sometimes.
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07/01/2003 01:20:35 PM · #7 |
Fiver
I reported on same problem some weeks ago but no one else seemed to experience it.
I've just stopped using Preview completely and go directly to POST.
That is mostly OK.
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07/01/2003 01:33:23 PM · #8 |
The Preview feature has definitely changed. The old Preview function would display the entire posting and then provide a vertical scroll bar to permit you to review it. Now, it truncates the previewed page and only shows the first portion of your posting. Unless of course the posting is less than the limitation that the Preview feature permits, then it shows all of it.
Often, I write in Word and then cut and paste the posting into the simplistic post text box for submission. That way, if it fails to function as expected, I still have the commentary in Word so I can recover.
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07/02/2003 12:28:54 AM · #9 |
Well to try and answer all your questions...
I am using Windows XP, and Internet Explorer Version: 6.0.2800.xpsp2.030422-1633
All Internet Exporer windows disapear instantly. There is no time out. (I have ADSL too)
Originally posted by ChrisW123:
The "clipboard" can be flaky sometimes, meaning although you copy to it (ctrl-c) sometimes it doesn't work. Copy to Notepad instead. |
I still use the 'Old School' CTRL+Insert and SHIFT+Insert commands, but your right I should have dumped it into something more permanent.
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07/02/2003 01:27:44 AM · #10 |
Hmm, I've been using Windows since 3.x and never heard of Ctrl-Insert, although, now that I think about it, some old DOS apps did use this I think but can't remember which ones. But it does work still, I just tried it... amazing.
Can you reproduce this? ie. Do you have a piece of text that consistently causes IE to crash when you submit the text? If so please post it (hahahaha, probably won't be able to however).
What other "odd" software do you have running, if any? Example, Do you have virus software that monitors your TCP/IP flow? If so, have you tried to remove all of these software progs from memory and tried posting again?
It's not your version of IE because I have the exact same version.
Do you have any other odd/different hardware or software installed that you know of?
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