The MyLot Disappearing Act

That happens to me often too. Good thing you can copy and paste. As for me, I have to type them over again and it's so annoying I can't remember exactly what I had typed so the sense of my message was changed. Sometimes, when I use the back button, then go forward again, my message is still there, that's lucky me sometimes. But most of the time, I don't if it's a coincidence of bad luck, that when I type super long comments, they're gone!

I usually copy everything I typed before submitting. That way, if my computer or internet goes off on me, I can paste it and not have to type it all over. But then what you have mentioned is supposedly an accident, so I don't know what you can do with that.

it happened to me a lot as well in the past but not anymore... mylot had been pretty good to me recently... i can understand how you feel and it is really annoying when it happened, isn't it??? take care and have a nice day...

It could be that mylot is overloaded. I did think it was because I use a trackpad andI do not press it down hard enough or I press it down hard. I do not want to get a mouse now but I am considering writing off line and then uploading it. What bothers me is when I press either the post response or and it takes a while to get through and then I backspace, but it did get through but the only way is when I close mylot and reopen it. It could also be because of not emptying the cache. I find that helps, but not that much.

Believe me when I say this has happened to me all too often too - write a nice long response, hit the "post response" button and then get a "Internet Explorer could not open the page" message (which means your post is gone if you didn't copy it). I normally remind myself to copy my post every time I write a response to a discussion, but after a while I go back to my habit of not doing it and then the same thing happens again and I am left frustrated. Honestly speaking, if only myLot could do an auto-save function after a certain number of words of characters typed (just like what Microsoft Word does every now and then when you're working on a document), then the panic and fear would be less pronounced...... I think the amount of cash I could have lost due to all the unretrievable posts could amount to more than $1......

hi! I have many a time lost what I typed, and I could not retrieve it. Thankfully someone helped me here in myLot. First of all, I use Mozilla Firefox because it prompts whether or not we want to resend all the things you did if an error occurs. I also found it's faster in processing my myLot activities.If you accidentally press the back button, I don't know what to do with that. I'm careful to always press the Refresh Button nowadays. If you accidentally closed the tab just press Ctrl+Shift+T and it will return the last Tab you closed. I can't copy+paste my words because I have not reached rank 500 yet, so these have been really helpful to me! :D

Hello my friend! Well I learn the hard way and too many times I have responded with what I class as a tip top, from the heart discussion and then Mylot freezes, or the response isn't accepted, or another equally annoying message comes up only to inform you that the wonderful response has vanished, completed! Then comes the obscenities and fist movements. So now every, and I mean EVERY discussion and response no matter how small or long it is I copy and paste! That way if Mylot does go down or something goes wrong, no problemo, I can recopy it, panic over!

I do not have that problem, at least not on my laptop. However, I stay logged in all the time, and I do not know if that is why it is better or if it is the fact that this is Window's 7. What used to happen to me would be that I would hit post and it would take forever to load. When it did load, I might have two, or as many as four copies of the same post. When that would happen I learned to copy the post, then if it did not post I would just paste it in again. Like I said, I got a new laptop last fall and many of my problems are gone now.

I hate it when that happens. If I write something that is really long, I usually copy it before pressing post, that way, if I should lose it, I can paste it again.

Dear friend, Sometimes I this kind of getting erased situation is also faced by me. It occurs mostly when I accendentily pressing my own figures. But at times I just use that copy and paste after typing here and just copy it in case it is erased.

As the first mylotter states, I too copy everything I post so I will not have to case of disapperaring acts as well. I remember first starting mylot and I wasn't aware of the bad connection, and I will write healthy discussion topics only to find out that I can not submit because of a bad request. This frustrates me the most with mylot. Even as I copy and past everything their connections still frustrates me to this day. Call me crazy, but I'm more the 99.9% sure mylot make me loose my internet connection. Everytime I'm on mylot I lose my connection. If I exit mylot my connection is strong again. I can't win with this site, but I love this site so its a win, loose situation.

Yeah sometimes happened to me when in my last word to typing suddenly meltdown the monitor and shutdown but sometimes I copy it to note pad and save. Another thing is when you complete your comments or responsed I must copy it because sometimes never accepted right away to I have a back up to paste it again - little clever moved but worthy. see you around

That's what i am trying to avoid. Typing a discussion and then suddenly internet slowed down. So, to avoid that, i would type my discussions on Word and copy, paste it to Mylot's new discussion. But as to responses, i have some responses that went unposted because of that. Sad, but what can i do. . .

I've had my internet explorer unexpectedly close for absolutely no reason while using MyLot, however my IE8 "restore last session" option is really useful, all my previous tabs open back up but I do lose my progress, oh well, you win some you lose some.

Well it sounds like you might consider having your hard drive reset to like New or reformatted, etc. and cleaned and see if that helps with your problems. I know even with my high speed internet things like this can happen here from time to time but it is just something you get used too and move on. There have been a couple of times where I wish I could have saved what I wrote when it did not appear but most of the time if I am in the mood I just retype it all and hope for the Best from there.

It happened to me one time too, and as far as I can remember, the long text I typed were gone. I did not bother retyping it anymore, I just look for another topic that interests me and there I already have posted my response leaving the first post to be, forgotten. :-)

This happens all the time here as we get tons of power cut and each time power goes the wifi modem restarts and the net connection gets interrupted. This is a bigger problem for beginner like us as we can't even paste...!!! 500 posts is still a long way away.