Difficulty in changing draft letters to be posted

[S.NAGESWARAN]

Respected Admin,

In the old format, whenever we submit a typed letter on any topic and preview is done, if we want to do a change in the letter, when we select "Back ", we get the letter back for us to do any changes and resubmit it without any difficulty.

However, I have drafted a long letter [ Topic--enjoy these short Alapanas ] and submitted for review on 11.04.2010. When I wanted to correct a few lines and clicked the " back " button, my draft letter vanished.

I felt tedious to retype it and my thought flow would be differant to retype it and post it.

It would be better if you can provide a recycle bin, so that we can restore our original draft letter back in case we want to change a few words.

Kindly do something.

S.NAGESWARAN.
12.04.2010.

[Nick H]

From "preview" you should not press "back" to correct or add more to your work. This is the way I use preview in all the forums I use.

Simply scroll down, and there is the text entry window for you to continue your work

I is obvious on a very short post, but not so much on a longer post, and you probably don't bother to preview a short post.

[srkris]

See the "EDIT" text in the image below. You need to click this text in your message post to edit the posted message. The edit option will be available for 3 days after posting the message.

[rajeshnat]

Shri nAgeshwaran
It is always best to additionally save the typed text in your personal computer notepad file as a redundant backup before hitting the submit button or better yet initially type in your notepad and then copy and paste into the site. All my posts so far I atleast save it in notepad file , it has helped in restoring few truncated posts .

[S.NAGESWARAN]

Respected Admin,

Is it possible to retrive my vanished draft letter on the topic"Enjoy the short Alapanas".

S.NAGESWARAN.
12.04.2010.

[Nick H]

With any bulletin board, until you post something, the board has no record of it, even if you had previewed it.

We have all suffered from crashing machines or freezing browsers, dropped internet connections, or even (more often in my case) a mistaken keystroke, wiping out a well-thought-out post. The only answer for it is to compose it, as suggested, in notepad, saving your work every few lines, and then cutting and pasting into the forum

[srkris]

Nageswaran Sir,
Nick said it perfectly. I usually post a message and edit it repeatedly until it matches what I intended to say and how, thus preserving atleast a half-baked post for future edits if need be.