Hi, I keyed in a long relpy on my messages and clicked to send but I had a ‘failed to send’ message show up and my message gone! It took ages to write. I sent another smaller one to check but that one went without any problem. Can my failed message be found & why did it ask me to contact an administrator? Is there a word limit? Also, I thought I’d already posted this but it’s not showing up. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks Sharon x
Hi Sharon.
Isn’t it flaming annoying when that happens!? I’ve lost many a message to the mysterious IT lagoon! It’s like the Bermuda Triangle for typed messages.
Sometimes when I want to send a lengthy message, I send it in 2 or 3 parts, so if any disappears, you’ve not lost the lot!
On Facebook, one don’t disappear, but remain until you send or delete them.
So Oliver, can you fix it for us chuck?
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Ditto! Please?
A couple of times, that’s happened to me, I’ve hit the ‘back’ button and the message has been retrieved. At other times it’s utterly vanished of course. Dam nuisance when you’ve spend ages composing a really sensible post for the Brain Fog thread!
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Composing a WHAT?
‘sensible post for brain fog thread’ = oxymoron??
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Who’re you calling an oxymoron?
I don’t think its recoverable, most times that happens on forums, it is lost since there is no record of the post being on the forum. copying a long post before hitting post is always a good idea. I know when I was a mod on a forum it wasn’t possible to recover a post that was not actually posted. it hasn’t been processed on the system.
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with some forum software if you hit back sometimes will have the post, but it doesn’t always work
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Thanks for raising this and I can confirm that unfortunately the original message would not be retrievable.
I understand that this can be quite the pain (trust me it’s happened to me also) and I will pick up with our web team to see whether a draft function is possible - so any crashes or mis-clicks on the page will save the original message to drafts.
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