I just spent 2 hours downloading pics to flickr, transferring the links to a post and writing up my DF, B11, and BWM chop off review, only to be informed that "THE FORM YOU HAVE SUBMITTED IS NO LONGER VALID"

It's very disheartening to have totally wasted 2 hours of my day off. Anybody know what I did wrong.

Usually if you hit the back button on your browser you can return to the page with your info still on it, then copy and paste it to a new page, I don't know why it happens but it has to me a few times

Yep Copy and Paste works for me. I've had that happen to me before, I'm a slow typist.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I finally learned to do my typing in a Textedit first if there's going to be a lot, and then copy and paste when I've got everything ready.

I just keep hitting continue with the preview box checked after every pic,or a couple of lines of text.

Fix it man! We need to see that!

I had to go visit My Dad at the nursing home to cool off.

Yes I'm a slow typist also and not real tech savvy. What it sounds like is maybe I took too long. I was also wondering if the post size exceeded a limit. It wasn't a huge amount of text and the pics were linked to flickr so I wasn't thinking it was too large.

Anyway I will see if I can get it back, as I left everything on when I left.

Thanks for the tips.

Yep I found it and was able to copy to text/edit then paste back. Lucky for me I copied it before I hit the refresh, because when I did that it all went Bye Bye. Every day I learn new things about using these computers. Then every other day if I don't use what Iv'e learned I forget it.

Thanks

I too am a slow typist. I use the copy and paste technique and the "Continue" button frequently.
Glad that you figured it out. It's a great chop-off.

I don't know if this behavior is true for both IE and Firefox, but I use FF and when that happens to me on this board, I use the browser back button (my text is still there, so I usually click in the textarea, Ctl-a to select all, and Ctl-c to copy, just in case), then I click the reload page button to renew my session (the text is still almost always still there, which was a surprise the first time, but a pleasant one), and the post goes through when I resubmit the page.

Like several of the others here, I often compose long messages in a text editor, because my exchange and yahoo email editors will lose messages when they timeout.