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Professor Askew
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:42 am    Post subject: Time-Out Period Too Short Reply with quote

I don't know if this is happening to anyone else but on more than one occasion I've lost rather lengthy posts due to what appears to be a time-out factor. I just wrote a nice long post and when I tried to preview it, it asked for my log-in info. Gone. And unrecoverable.

Can we turn up the time limit somewhat? I can write in Word and copy and paste but I'd rather not. Or let me know if this is unique to me and writing fom work maybe. IDK. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It hasn't happened to me in a while. But when it did it was certainly infuriating.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, Prof Askew, this is sooo annoying, I know that, though that didn't happen
to me on this forums here, but somewhere else, especially on the german
forums and I don't remember where else... so, if I'm writing a lengthy post,
I generally copy the whole text to the clipboard before previewing or submitting
it ever since... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've sometimes been lucky and found I can retrieve lost poasts by hitting the back arrow. Other times, great sadness, despair, and bitter moaning. Crying or Very sad

[Regarding "Poasts": 4-year old in-joke. See http://thegreattree.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=4276#4276 ]
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Login cookies are already set not to expire, so... not sure why they are. I just now changed the session expiry from 1 hour to 30 days, so maybe that will fix it. Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, Brian! Of course, testing it will be difficult because I will probably write my longer posts in NotePad first. lol

@Marten...Good old poast. Mmmmmmmm
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Right now,

I am eagerly awaiting the rewrite of the long poast we were deprived of by the Professor's untimely timeout.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Marten wrote:
Right now,

I am eagerly awaiting the rewrite of the long poast we were deprived of by the Professor's untimely timeout.

Sorry, Marten, it's gone the way of the dinosaur. Forward motion only.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's so strange that that was happening to you guys. Sad I never get logged out anymore since the forum "no longer crashes." Maybe it's because I have the option checked to keep me logged in until I sign out?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That could possibly be it, Jean. It's only happened to me during the day from work when I don't check that box.
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