| Author | Message | ||
| bob
Senior Member Username: bob Post Number: 743 Registered: 11-2002 |
Not that it's a huge problem, but at one time or another many of us have had to clean up, or apologize for, duplicate posts. I'm sure there are different reasons, but wanted to pass along some observations, and a suggestion that has mostly eliminated the problem for me. When a post "fails", I usually see one of two error messages: either the specific one from the site saying that some files may be locked, try again in a few seconds, etc; or a more generic "server timed out" response from my browser. Yet in nearly all of these cases (except when the Alembic site is really down or otherwise struggling), my post has actually been accepted. What I usually do at such times is this: - hit Back in my browser, to return to the screen where I was previewing the post. - copy my post to the clipboard. - hit Back another time or two, to see the thread I was posting to. - hit Refresh, to see whether my post has actually appeared (almost always, it has, and I usually don't even need to Refresh). - if not, then I paste into the posting area and try again. If it's something really long that I don't want to have to rewrite, I may take the extra conservative step of temporarily saving my post in a text file. In fact, for longer ones I usually do my editing there first (sometimes even do some spellchecking...), and then just copy the whole thing over, which also makes it easier to keep up with what others might be saying while I'm sitting here scratching my head. Again, the main point is that most of the time, it really hasn't failed, so it's worth taking a look. I've had two of these in the last day, one "locked" message and one "timed out", and though I went through the precautionary steps to avoid losing my work, both posts had actually made it there. -Bob (Message edited by bob on November 27, 2006) | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 613 Registered: 2-2005 |
Bob, I've noticed the same thing. For some reason the script doesn't always complete and refresh my browser. I have gotten in the habit of opening a second browser to check that my update is complete. If it is I just close the original browser window I used to add the new entry. If it is not there I just push the Post button again. Keith | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 614 Registered: 2-2005 |
Son of a gun it just did it on my last update. Keith | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 913 Registered: 2-2006 |
Me too. | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1083 Registered: 9-2002 |
WHAT duplicate posts? J o e y | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 914 Registered: 2-2006 |
Me too. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 4563 Registered: 5-2002 |
Bob and Keith, thanks for the suggestions. | ||
| inthelows
Member Username: inthelows Post Number: 68 Registered: 11-2006 |
I get "Message posted" so I back out of the window and enter a different area and then check again to see if it's posted. The dbl post happened earler today. Maybe high volume of users during the afternoon has something to do with it. We are a talkative group! NLP | ||
| bob
Senior Member Username: bob Post Number: 744 Registered: 11-2002 |
WHAT duplicate posts? J o e y | ||
| adriaan
Senior Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 1149 Registered: 6-2002 |
I noticed you don't really have to wait for the site to return you to the thread. If you close the browser after posting, and re-open, most of the time the posting is already accepted. |
