Reply To: 7-1/2 Merc75 Idle Problem

[David Stanton]

billw wrote:

Did the post vanish and then you were asked to sign in again? If so, welcome to the club literally and figuratively, too. It happens to me sometimes. It’s probably nothing you did wrong. I have started copying what I write, before I hit “submit.” That way, if it goes up in cyber blue smoke, I don’t have to type it again.

No it didn’t ask me to sign in again. It just came up as if I had not done the post at all.

I have had posts vanish that I had photos in, and I think it sensed I didn’t post the photos with the right procedure. Once I tried again, paying more attention to getting that right and it posted. Then the next day, my original post with photos showed up as a duplicate. This has happened twice, so sometimes, maybe someone looks at sensed mistakes and corrects them?

I’ve learned now that if I have a somewhat long post I don’t want to do over, I paste a copy into microsoft word and save it so I can paste it back when I redo the post. I’ve also learned that if I try a 2nd time, it sometimes tells me I can’t post the same thing twice, even if it disappeared the first time, so the 2nd time I change one or two words and it sometimes takes it.
Dave