Re: TEST yes problems again
- From: "OldGoat" <oldgoatmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:34:37 GMT
Dear Wayne and Dave,
This will work too especially when those pesky emails drop out as well. Do
it all up in WordPad, as plain text (not the "rich text" or HTML). Then do
your proof read, cut and paste, run spellcheck and hit send. Or just cut and
paste and send.Then don't save the WordPad document, and move to the next
one. But I'd call your ISP or get a Usenet server list and ping away, pick
your fastest response time and make that your news server. Ping your ISP too
just to see if they need to look at their server. It seems like the news
servers are the last priority for a lot of these ISP's.
Just a thought--og
"Hawaiian Wayne" <birdie998@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1185317070.503149.169090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jul 24, 10:41 am, PainXtreme <dave...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:35:25 -0500, PAINxtreme wrote
(in article <1185309325.722021.61...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
I typed a lengthy report on Mayo Clinic for the previous poster....a
half hour's worth....it said the post was successful....guess what?
no showee. lets see if this works, and from now on, im going to copy
and paste all my rants before hitting post
-dave
ok its just google again
Aloha Dave!
You must absolutely DREAD posting to this board after all the time and
TIMES you've spent creating posts that "seem" to be posting
successfully, however, simply DON'T. Hey...I understand the feeling
and I'm sure the two of us aren't the ONLY ones.
Has anyone ever told you what you should do when you are typing long
posts that you could never recreate again by trying to retype them?
This is what I do while I'm typing them now, PLUS, I do this with ALL
of my posts just before I hit the "send" button. Forgive me if you've
already been told this, if you already know about it, perhaps someone
else can benefit from it...
It's so simple, really. You'll wonder why you didn't do this before!
You know how to copy and paste, right? You highlight what you want to
copy (by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor
over the sentences you want copied) or if done (and it's and original
post), just go under "edit" and click on the 'select all' on the drop
down menu. Now you have what you want to save, copied however, it
isn't REALLY "saved" until you "paste" it on a document, so be sure
NOT TO COPY anything else until you've pasted it! I've accidentally
over-written a post I hadn't copied on a document as yet, (thought I
did!), then went to 'retrieve it' only to suddenly feel that "all-to-
familiar" sickening feeling! LOL! Since what I'm saving isn't a
formal document or anything I want to "keep forever", I use a
"Notepad" (which is under "accessories", of which I have under my
'programs' lists that comes up after you click "start") document
rather than go into MS Word (or whatever you use for your word
processing) to temporarily save these on. Just click on notepad, a
blank doc should come up and place the cursor in the upper left corner
and go to the "edit" drop-down menu and click 'paste'. What you copied
should magically appear on the blank document. Now, believe it or
not, you still haven't "saved" a dang thing! Everything you've done so
far only exists in cyber-space heaven along with all your other lost
documents! So...IMPORTANT(!), be sure and go up to the "file" list and
click on "Save AS" on the drop down menu and type whatever you want to
'name' the document, click on OK...NOW your partial or entire post is
saved!!!
Remember you can use the same document over and over again to "Save"
to if you are saving as you type. Instead of clicking on "Save AS" on
the same document, use the "Save" function and it will overwrite the
old "stuff'.
Dave, as you can imagine, when you lose your FIRST 'post' again after
you start doing this, I think you'll feel that it's well worth the 30
seconds to pause from typing to partially save and then save the
entire post before sending...Not much else bothers me more using
computers than losing a document or post that I've spent over an hour
on and structured everything "just so", only to have it vanish in
"cyber-heaven" with NO HOPE of retrieving it!
Now, the trick is to remember to eventually go back and delete those
that posted fine or are no longer needed that will eventually create a
'log jam', of sorts, in your "My Documents" folder (not to mention the
wasted memory just to save a hundred or so (now) worthless posts)!!
This, I hope, makes your time on the computer a lot less frustrating.
It should! Ha!
Aloha Just For Now,
Hawaiian Wayne
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