Enigma Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 HMVF crashes/locks up sometimes when I've written a longer reply. The computer say HMVF doesn't respond when I try to submit the reply. I'll have to refresh or something like that losing the text. So I have to retype it all, which don't do because its ANNOYING and the 1st draft is mostly my best. EDIT; OK, just found he auto restore function, still annoying when it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 HMVF crashes/locks up sometimes when I've written a longer reply.The computer say HMVF doesn't respond when I try to submit the reply. I'll have to refresh or something like that losing the text. So I have to retype it all, which don't do because its ANNOYING and the 1st draft is mostly my best. EDIT; OK, just found he auto restore function, still annoying when it happens. Hi Enigma, That has been happening to me for several weeks, only on the website, not cookies either. I thought it might have been my pc, but obviously not. It does happen on short replies as well, but not every time. Frustrating if you have done a long and detailed reply, so much so that I started to reply on wordpad then pasted in, to reduce the time of compiling the message. Some replies I have abandoned through frustration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian L Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 And me to :mad: best thing to do is copy/paste every time (paypal claims aswell as they time out) then you dont loose the message and have to start again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Yep.me too , just given up posting a comment again because of this . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 (edited) I would suggest that it is a user problem & not an HMVF problem, check that you haven't got an Ad blocker that is slowing down page loading, see the last few posts here http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?29321-Hmvf-website-taking-ages-to-load-up As HMVF has a lot more ads now any type of Ad blocker (or maybe your virus protection/firewall) will slow down the page loading times & could cause the page to timeout. It's best to set your browser to accept pop-ups from HMVF. Also if you are using IE the Forum can be very slow. Don't forget the auto-save function.. if the pagecrashes or times out just refresh the page or go back & hit auto restore button that will appear in the botton left of the editor window.. uto-Save. Sick of losing posts when your browser crashes? Now you won’t have to worry, your content is safe. Edited February 18, 2012 by Marmite!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 3rd time I try to reply I saved befor hitting the submit button. Here goes; Dam it. copy paste didnt work.:computerrage: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 same for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 I seen it auto save, site locked up, had to refresh. NO auto restore function visible. Had to retype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvinthemartian Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Done the same to me over the past week or so. Seems to be since the last windows update had updated IE, and changed the layout of toolbars etc. Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Done the same to me over the past week or so. Seems to be since the last windows update had updated IE, and changed the layout of toolbars etc.Simon Switch to Firefox or Chrome!! nearly all the problems reported with the forum only occur with IE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Last MS update including to IE caused a few :computerrage: moments to a few IE users I know of! I never have never used IE (use Firefox) but am sure the update caused some recent probs for me too! :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz76 Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Done it to me several times tonight. Auto save hadn't autosaved the text. will look into Safariswing's suggestions about IE being the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redherring Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Has happened several times. I suspect an IE problem. I tried changing settings. Am back to my original settings. I'll just have to be more concise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Same issue here. In fact it's just happenned now trying to post this. Auto save did not function. It looks server-side to me. It's just this website that's affected, and I've got a reasonably clean OS install frow only a few weeks ago. All IE accelerators disabled. The only plugins/helpers loaded are shockwave, mcafee scriptproxy (averaging 0.1s) and and windows media player. It's driving me nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 All IE accelerators disabled. There's your problem (possibly).. using IE, 99.9% of the problems on the forum are IE related. Switch to Firefox or similar.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Sorry couldn't resist it..picture saves a thousand words.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 I know there are a lot of Firefox supporters, but switching browser isn't really a bug fix. Some of us use IE for good reasons. Heck if I was going that far I could switch back to gopher or telnet in on port 80! (don't ask me to do 443, my brain doesn't work that fast ) Before you doubt, I have hand issued protocol commands in the past, using one of the oldest computers connected to the net at the time (I had a text-only PC RT at home and played on IRC without the aid of a client :nut: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 The only good thing about IE is that you can brew a cuppa while a page is loading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 This may or may not help, but I've switched back to the basic editor and I've not had the same problem since, so it looks to be an issue between the WYSIWYG editor and IE. If you are having the same issue you can probably work around it by doing the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Why not download Google Chrome? I got totally fed up with IE and all the associated problems as described above, and it wasn't just on this forum. I use Chrome all the time now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Why not download Google Chrome? I got totally fed up with IE and all the associated problems as described above, and it wasn't just on this forum. I use Chrome all the time now. As said before most of the problems are related to IE, that's why we reccommend other browsers.. but for some reason some members actually like IE ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 As said before most of the problems are related to IE, that's why we reccommend other browsers.. but for some reason some members actually like IE ? Easy (for me). My computer has IE and I am as computer expert as I am a brain surgeon. I can ask my brother to install for google or whatever,I don't know how and don't even know if there is a difference in using a forum with Google, IE or such. This forum is the only one in which it happens, none of the other ones have problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Easy (for me).My computer has IE and I am as computer expert as I am a brain surgeon. I can ask my brother to install for google or whatever,I don't know how and don't even know if there is a difference in using a forum with Google, IE or such. This forum is the only one in which it happens, none of the other ones have problems. Installation is simple & you can download Firefox here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ or Google Chrome here https://www.google.com/chrome/?installdataindex=nosearch&hl=en-GB&brand=CHMA&utm_campaign=en-GB&utm_source=en-GB-ha-emea-uk-bk&utm_medium=ha After installation choose "Make Firefox (or Chrome) my default browser" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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