User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Drax Cave/@comment-188432-20130525171247

One of the disadvantages of the forum code is that if you move away from a page where you are composing a new reply — maybe you accidentally click a link on the page, for example —  it will appear as though you've lost the message you're composing.

But there is a way to save it!


 * 1) Click your back button. You should see one line of your text in the entry box at the bottom of the page. Do not click on the entry box, or your text will be lost.
 * 2) Immediately hit - on your Mac or - on other, inferior operating systems. This will select the text of the entire page.
 * 3) Then hit - on your Mac or - if you're lumbered with another OS.
 * 4) Open up TextEdit on Macs or Notepad in Widoze.
 * 5) Hit - on your Mac or - on your cut-price, cut-corners competitor. This will then dump the entire contents of the Thread into your text editor.
 * 6) Find the text for your "lost" post, then copy and paste it back into the thread.

It's a bit cumbersome, sure. And it would be better if the Forum mini-editor worked more like the regular page editor, allowing you to navigate away from and back to your edits with ease. But at least there's some way to recover a post, when you accidentally navigate away from it.