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WTF? OK I feel the Need to Vent.... UGH... More times then I care to mention I have poured my heart and soul into a Post only to have it SOMEHOW mysteriously say.. not logged in.. making me Log in AGAIN only to lose the last 10 min of careful thought and wording.... Really.. Usually I dont go for the BIG posts..but when I do more times then not it Screws up.. It freakin Logs out... WHY!!???
 
I'll move this thread to the Service & Support forum first, and then I'll see if I can help....
 
Now we're not in the Whine & Cheese forum any more I can't say "Your ****ing problem is your ****ing cookies you ****ing ****head!" Just a moment to shift gears here....

Okay -- your problem is in your cookies. See, if you have "remember password" checked then Bladeforums recognizes you by cookies, which are two text files stored on your computer. They get changed if you change your options, between times they just sit there and your browser sends them when Bladeforums asks for them, and that's how Bladeforums knows who you are and how you want the time and date to be shown and things like that. If anything happens to those cookies Bladeforums doesn't recognize you, so it says you're not logged in.

If you have your browser set not to allow cookies it won't work. If your browser crashes at the moment it's accessing the cookies the files will be corrupted and it won't work. If you click on the "delete all cookies" button or if you delete the entire directory your browser keeps its temporary files in (cookies are considered temporary files) it won't work. Sometimes for no discernable reason it won't work because computers are inscrutable.

If it only happens once in a while it's probably either because your browser crashed or because computers are inscrutable. Neither of those can be avoided at present; browsers won't become crashproof any time soon and computers won't become scrutable in the near future either.

The way the current Bladeforums software works, if anything goes wrong when you try to post -- you aren't logged in, the server is overloaded, you try to post an attachment that's too big, the Net Demons take a bite out of your packets -- if anything at all goes wrong, your post is lost. If you try to go back to it you get "that page has expired." That sux, and I expect the vBulletin people will fix it sometime -- don't know when, but long before browsers stop crashing and computers become scrutable.

In the meantime I can only suggest you write anything longer than a couple of lines in your favorite word processor and paste it in. If you don't have a favorite already Wordpad is good enough for most people and that comes with Windows. Create a file called posts.doc and write all your posts in that and save it and back it up frequently, and paste in your posts from that, and you'll never lose another post.

That has several other advantages -- if you use a real word processor (not Wordpad) you can do spellcheck and you can customize it to suit your taste, use macros, remap the keyboard, etc. Besides you'll have a permanent copy on your own computer of everything you post, and who knows, you might want it again someday.

For instance, somebody else is bound to ask the same question, and when they do I can paste in this same reply and won't have to write it all over again. :)
 
Other thought (a little simpler than writing it somewhere else): if you're writing a big post, highlight everything you wrote, then right click and copy it. I do that a lot when I want to go back a few pages in my history window and check something someone wrote, or if I'm trying something like posting a picture and I'm afraid I might screw up.
 
ummmm Ok.. I am not a Fhead or any of the other nasty thingys you just called me... I am an Information Technology Major.. My cookies are enabled.. I am not cleaning them until I am done being on the internet everday. I log in.. I type out a post... and maybe 6 times out of the 151 posts I have done came up as NOT LOGGED IN and I lose the whole post. Ummm thanks for your help...but I was really just venting...not in need of HELP per say... just a vent session in W&C.
 
I clear cookies at the End of the Day... after I am done with them.. not in the middle of making a post.... :)
 
It just could be old Murphy acting up again. There never has been, and never will be, any component of any computer anything, that is glitch-free. If it always and only happens with very long posts, that only goes further to prove that it's Murphy doing it. Burke's idea of copying text before hitting the "Submit" button is a very good one. I try to remember to do that as often as possible. Sometimes I forget, sometimes I even forget on long posts, and it's only then that something doesn't work as it should. I've tricked my computer into accepting, but not saving cookies, and I have to relogin every time I open a browser again, but I don't mind, and everything still works. And jamgusmc, don't take offense at anything Cougar said. He's only trying to help, and he does go way out of his way to help us fellow forumites. Most computer questions are asked by people who don't know what they're doing. I'm definitely one of them. Even if Cougar's post didn't help you, it could very well help a lot of other people who read this thread.
 
Thanks guys.. I know cougar wasnt really trying to be a prick.. its Valentines Day.. I have no one.. the woman who I used to have is a whore and we are divorcing.... I was REALLY JUST venting in W&C because I lost a couple of REALLY good posts.... *sigh* Again sorry if I was being OVERsensitive.. thanks all.
 
It happens to me too, usually for no discernable reason except that computers are inscrutable. What can we do? We can't kick our computers; that would only make them sulky -- there's nothing left to do but take our annoyance out on each other! I'm as entitled as anybody -- so listen you ****heads! It's all your fault -- if you had **** for brains this **** wouldn't be happening to you and you wouldn't have **** to whine about!

Now I feel better.

BTW, I'm currently running IE with all cookies disabled except for websites I manually enable them for, and I only do that for a few sites like Bladeforums that have legitimate uses for cookies. I decided to do that after I noticed nearly all the cookies on my drive weren't from websites I deliberately chose to go to; they were from banner and pop-up ads. (Even after I started running Popupkiller I think sometimes the popups were getting cookies onto my drive before Popupkiller could kill them; Popupkiller can be slow at times when the ****ing popups are popping up so fast they overload your system resources).
 
What a bunch of ****heads. Why don't you all shut the **** up? And maybe somebody can move this ****ing thread back to Whine and ****ing Cheese? **** you, ya ****ing ****s.

Just kidding. :) :p
 
I've been using the Opera browser for the last few weeks and I like it better than IE or netscape. And it's got a setting to refuse all popups! I don't even notice how much of a difference that makes until I use one of the others and get all these damn popups everywhere. Has anyone else used it?
 
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