| MegL |
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What is this?
#295736 - 2002/01/31 12:16 AM |
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I just tried to post a reply in general and got this error message:
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We cannot process your posting, because you have exceeded the maximum number of images allowed per post. The current maximum is 8.
I really don't think I had 8 smiles in the reply but I can't tell because it deleted my reply when I tried to to back to it to fix it 
Over an hours worth of work down the drain and I don't think I can reconstruct the post. I do wish if you are going to set up the posting system to do this you warn everyone ther is a limit on smiles before they go to post rather than after 
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Meg
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Re: What is this?
2002/01/31 12:41 AM |
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I've got that warning before, but when I went back, my post was still there to edit... Did you click the link, or did you use the Back button on your browser?
Rhys
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| MegL |
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Re: What is this?
2002/01/31 12:59 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Rhys:
I've got that warning before, but when I went back, my post was still there to edit... Did you click the link, or did you use the Back button on your browser?Rhys
Back button on browser. However, there was no link. All the page had was the Go box at the bottom to take me back to General Discussions, so I had to use the Back button
Meg
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Re: What is this?
2002/01/30 02:54 PM |
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I just did the same thing on Monday. I lost a post that took me about 45 minutes to write.
I don't think I ever got it rewritten quite the same way.
If you want to avoid problems like this just type up any long posts in Notepad and then copy and past it into the posting window. Then if something goes wrong and you loose the post all you have to do is copy and paste it again. 
The odd thing is that if your post fails flood controll still comes on and you have to wait before you can try to post again. 
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Re: What is this?
2002/01/30 04:23 PM |
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As an aside - whenever you have a really long post, you should do all the typing in a text editor or word processing (e.g., MS Word) and then, once you have it ready, just copy and paste it into the message window. This not only helps alleviate glitches such as the above, but also minimizes the amount of time during which you have to count on a good connection - if your phone connection is iffy, for example - and saves you a record of what you wrote on your own hard disk. Also, as you're writing the text, save your work often, in the text/word form. If your entire computer decides to crash (notorious Windows errors etc.) you still have your work to date saved on the hard disk!
Just my 2¢ worth.
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Re: What is this?
2002/01/31 02:31 AM |
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quote:
MegL wrote:
I really don't think I had 8 smiles in the reply
{{{{{MegL}}}}} One thing to watch out for is smilies remaining in parts of other posts quoted in yours; those count too.