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• Edit existing post function fail?

  Alvin Eriol > March 13th, 2018, 02:11 PM

  I attempted to use the "edit" function on a 3 yr old post of mine. The display showed a completely blank edit window instead of the marked-up text of the existing post and the display-formatted "proof" of the existing post. I cancelled without entering anything, lest I perhaps inadvertently destroy the existing post or do something else detrimental. After 2 or 3 attempts with no displayed "as found" post text, I gave up.
  
  I had edited very recent posts successfully.
  
  Is this a bug, or a new feature?

• Edit existing post function fail?

  august > March 13th, 2018, 06:36 PM

  It's a bug, that Michael first noticed here.
  
  It seems to turn up here and there with no rhyme or reason or pattern.
  
  You were probably right to hit "cancel" The temporary solution, of course, is to copy anything you may want to edit, and then if you get the blank screen - which
  happens to me most commonly when I go from regular "edit" to "advanced" - you can always paste the original back in, and then edit and update that.
  
  It's unrelated, but nevertheless analogous, to what we've all experienced with assorted technologies, going back to at least the 70's. My mother used to work for a newspaper,
  and the publisher forced the reporters to convert to computers rather than typewriters c. 1974. And she would tell me how an otherwise mild-mannered, sedate middle-aged man
  would randomly explode into a fury of profanity, when someone would walk by his desk, and the friction of the shoes of the passer-by on the newsroom carpet would somehow
  generate static electricity, wiping out the reporter's entire article right as the deadline was at hand.

• Edit existing post function fail?

  Michael > March 23rd, 2018, 12:59 AM

  We will try to upgrade the forum software later this year, I promise. I'm just so far behind on work projects from being sick for two months that it will probably be this summer.
  
  What I have found works for me, when this problem kicks in, is grabbing all the text and pasting it in to the empty edit box -- as August suggests above.

• Edit existing post function fail?

  Alvin Eriol > March 23rd, 2018, 02:06 PM

  I thought of that, but decided holding up and inquiring about this problem (having missed the earlier discussion previously mentioned, and its relevance to this issue) was the better part of valor.
  
  Many of my longer posts (such as installments of MD&MFV) are indeed composed with a word processor, then cut & pasted.
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