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Recovering unpublished posts CZECHOUT One of the disadvantages of the forum code is that if you move away from a page where you are composing a new reply — maybe you accidentally click a link on the page, for example — it will appear as though you've lost the message you're composing.

But there is a way to save it!

Click your back button. You should see one line of your text in the entry box at the bottom of the page.[1] Do not click on the entry box, or your text will be lost. Immediately hit ⌘-A on your Mac or ctrl-A on other, inferior operating systems. This will select the text of the entire page. Then hit ⌘-C on your Mac or ctrl-C if you're lumbered with another OS. Open up TextEdit on Macs or Notepad in Widoze. Hit ⌘-V on your Mac or ctrl-V on your cut-price, cut-corners competitor. This will then dump the entire contents of the Thread into your text editor. Find the text for your "lost" post, then copy and paste it back into the thread. It's a bit cumbersome, sure. And it would be better if the Forum mini-editor worked more like the regular page editor, allowing you to navigate away from and back to your edits with ease. But at least there's some way to recover a post, when you accidentally navigate away from it.

↑ When you return to the Thread page, you must be able to see a line of your text in the text-entry area. If you don't see that, this method won't work. This method only recovers posts that have been lost due to navigating away from the Thread page. 12 minutes ago

SMALLERONTHEOUTSIDE reply to #1 I've tried that before, and it's never worked... 9 minutes ago

CZECHOUT It does work. You have to be able to see text in the text-entry window. It won't work if the text has already disappeared because you've touched the window. And it only works when you've navigated away from the Thread page and you come back to it. 2 minutes ago

SMALLERONTHEOUTSIDE Yes, that has been the case many times, and each time I'd try highlighting everything. I even tried just highlighting around it. It just never turned up in the text that I copied. a minute ago quote more

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