Private Messages

I've just had to restrain myself form throwing my IPad out of the window. Having spent over half an hour composing a reply to a private message and pressing the send button nothing happened. I pressed it again and still nothing. I've checked the sent box and only the blank message, that I sent in error at the start of the process, is there. Having navigated away the message is now lost. Grrrrrr.

What doesn't help is that as soon as I start typing the window drops down to the original message and I can't see what I'm typing. What am I doing wrong? Is there a maximum length of message? After a bit of a struggle I did manage to attach a picture.

Going to the pub soon, John.

PS sorry I forgot, Happy New Year everybody.

PPS if you read this , not done it yet, I'll have another go tomorrow.

Edited By Jss on 31/12/2017 19:16:25

Edited By Jss on 31/12/2017 19:23:23

A workaround technique to avoid the frustration you just experienced is to make a copy/paste of the written text of the message just after writing and save it to Notepad or Word. Then if the ME site loses it (it has happened MANY times to me, especially in the early days of the site) you can copy paste from your saved file to the PM message centre if need be.

We should not have to do this, or go through the rigmarole needed to put jpegs in albums then messages either, but the powers that be who run the web content here will not change it. It's by far the oddest commercial (run by publishing firm) hobby forum site I've come across. Most other commercial sites have done major improvements over the years and the user experience is much better. Not this site. There are worse - Yahoo for example has de-improved their group site functions steadily to the point that few people bother with it anymore.

I had trouble with this the other day. The curser seems to have a mind of its own. I ended up typing the message with out being able to see it until I moved the message up. As soon as I started to type again the lower message box came up and I was typing blind again. I finished the message by having to scroll back up to my typing window and send it. I am still not sure whether it went or not but it was shown in my “sent” box.

Thanks for that Jeff, I'll try that next time.

Regards, John.

Yup, I have deleted my membership from two of their groups as a result.....and no great loss...

Hi Steve,

Never come across this problem here. I just tried to send you a PM, seemed to work.

Thor

Please don't send Steve anymore test messages, the thread dates from 2011!!

Mystery solved! I thought my account had been hacked when all these PM's started turning up...

Happy New Year!

Steve

Oops, must have been tired, I normally spot that.

Bill