Those of you who use Blogger will be only too familiar with the annoyance of losing a post. We all know the situation, it's one of Bloggers little reminders that we are not actually in charge of our destiny. You spend precious time typing a post only to hit 'publish' and find the Blogger gremlins kill it before your very eyes!! Well just maybe all is not lost, I discovered a possible rescue plan on Saturday night.
Having suffered this aggravation a few times in the past I normally type up my post in notepad and paste it into Blogger. On Saturday evening, feeling tired and with lack of concentration I typed directly into Blogger, hit publish and..... horror, the publish status gave up and 'stuck' at 18%. Grrrrrr, thought I, as I uttered some rather unpleasant expletives. I sat for a moment and considered, there must be a way to rescue my post. I sure as hell wasn't gonna re-type it!
There was it transpired a way and you might like to try it next time the gremlins get your hard work.
We all know that at this point if one hits the 'back' button there will only be a blank 'new post' page, the original post will have gone to the big blog in the sky. I left the 'stuck' page open and opened the 'edit posts' page in a new window. I had noticed before that providing the publish status gets past 1% and providing one doesn't hit 'back' the post is often still 'saved as draft' or on occasion even published.......and there it was, safe and sound in the new page!! I hurriedly pasted it into notepad,( I was NOT going to risk losing it again) closed the original window and published from the new window.
It worked! My post was rescued.
So, next time this annoying Blogger foible presents itself, you might like to attempt this trick. I can't promise it will always work, I have thus far only tried it this once but it's worth a bash. Anything is better than having to re-think and re-type a whole damn post!
Monday, 18 October 2004
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I'll have to remember that one, Debbie types directly into blogger but I usually type everything in Word first because I can't spell for toffee and the blogger spell check is a bit cumbersome.
Paul.
ZZzz!
R E T R O
Roflmao Retro....blog it! I dare ya....I'll give you 'guest' status for a day!
Hey, who's the rude snoring commenter. People who won't give their names.....well, you know........
Anyway, another trick is to "change your profile"! I do this if I change my template and publishing gets stuck (happens a lot). While I'm still in publishing hell status I go to my profile and hit save again without actually making any changes. Then it tells me I must republish to save changes. I basically republish everything and the changes all show up.
I never remember to type it somewhere else first. I did have one lost post show up DAYS later. Hmn.
Call me Scarlett: Rofl....hopefully all will be revealed about the snoring commenter soon, he is who I have asked to guest blog :o)
Thanks for the tip, will try that one when blogger dies on me again as no doubt will happen soon!
It's always the best of the best publications that get lost you know... I think Blogger realizes this immediately and sucks them into their own black hole for future good reads !!! As for the opening a new screen.... YOU ARE RIGHT ! I stumbled across this by accident... and a couple of times now I have seen a DRAFT sitting, waiting for me !!!
I type my posts and comments right into blogger, but before I hit the Publish button I do a select-all (ctrl-a) and copy the contents to the clipboard (ctrl-c). That way if necessary I can paste them in again.
Blogger keeps posts and comments in its own database. This is why at any time you can request that it republish your blog. This is why it can replublish when you change templates.
When you press Publish, two things happen: it saves your text in its database, and then it tries to publish blog pages to the web server (yours or theirs). Even if it can't publish to the web server, as long as the text got sent to blogger, it's still in their database. Even when the publish status was at 0% I've been able to go back to the Publish Status page a day later, tell blogger to Republish my index or my entire site, and the missing posts got published.
Dave: Thanks....at least I know how it happens now, I do normally copy to the clip board , I just had a lazy moment that time and paid for it! :o/
Jack: I will mail you when I get a minute, assuming I can find an addy for you! :o)
Astrantia: Lol........you coulda told me! hehehe
I'm back....isn't that funny... I use word all the time, and cut and paste billions of tidbits... except, my thoughts .... I didn't really consider that an option... it's all in the name I guess!
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