This is a bad one and I've noticed it over the past week or so. I compose a very detailed draft, go outside of the draft to look something up (I am NOT using the back arrow), and when I come back to the draft, it is gone. Poof. Into thin air. And I need to compose it all over again. The only way to save a draft now seems to be to always remember to keep two windows open. Something very, very wrong here....
Thanks.
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To clarify: the draft exists but is always completely blank when you go back to it.
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Mark,

I was going to tell you (and had composed a draft telling you) that I didn't know whether it happened in any groups besides my own, but it just happened in THIS group (beta). I had composed the draft and gone into my group to check on the terminology used for "View all [n] messages in this topic," because I was going to report to you that that's one of the things I've been doing that's been resulting in the draft being lost. When I came back to this group to continue my draft containing that info, it was blank. Here is what I had written up to that point:

I waited a week to report this to make sure it was happening consistently, because I guessed you were going to say that you couldn't reproduce it and I wanted to make sure that I wasn't imagining it. It's consistent. I'm using Firefox, and I'm composing in the message-composition box. Typically what I do is start a draft, and then go into something like the Files section to look something up, or click on "View all [n] messages in this topic" to see what transpired in the past on the subject. I meticulously avoid using the "back" arrows since that's what was causing my losing of drafts a year or so ago, and which was discussed at great length then.

Thanks.

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Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

I just tried it, and it does NOT happen to me.  I'm using Chrome.  When I go back to my draft (here in this group), it's there and its contents are there.

I have not tried Firefox, and won't.

One thing to be aware of - probably unrelated - is that the menu bar on the left does not always refresh, so I may need to do a complete screen reset occasionally.  But I think that only affects the presence (and number) of Drafts that it tells you you have.  e.g., I may write a message, so now there's a new Draft, but it doesn't show up in the menu bar on the left until I refresh the browser's screen.

Andy

I also want to mention that I always wait 15 seconds or so, before clicking anywhere to leave the Draft edit page.  I figure that if I leave the page too soon, it will not have saved.  I'm sure 15 seconds is more than enough time.

I thought Mark added something (a few months ago) that would show when a draft was being saved, similar to what Gmail does.  But I don't see that anymore.  If it was there, it might tell you if your drafts are not being saved promptly.

Andy

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 08:25 AM, Andy wrote:

I always wait 15 seconds or so, before clicking anywhere to leave the Draft edit page

Do you mean that you wait 15 seconds after typing your last character? In the cases I'm talking about, I've already spent about 10-15 minutes composing the draft. It should have saved already, even if it misses the last sentence or something. But it's always completely, totally blank except for my signature.
 
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Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:28 AM, Janet_Catlady wrote:

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 08:25 AM, Andy wrote:

I always wait 15 seconds or so, before clicking anywhere to leave the Draft edit page

Do you mean that you wait 15 seconds after typing your last character?

Exactly.

In the cases I'm talking about, I've already spent about 10-15 minutes composing the draft.

Clearly it's not doing something right.  Either it wasn't being saved in all that time, or the very last save got interrupted and it saved an empty draft.  That doesn't seem likely, especially as it happens consistently.

Andy

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:49 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

I can't reproduce this. Is anyone else seeing this?

I can't reproduce this either (on Firefox v100.0)

Regards
Andy

I just reproduced it again, in this group. I composed a test draft in response to this message from Andy W, waited 15 secs or more, went into my own group, came back, and the draft was blank.
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On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 05:01 PM, Janet_Catlady wrote:

I just reproduced it again, in this group. I composed a test draft in response to this message

Mark asked what browser etc. you were using but I don't see a response to that. Also, what device are you using? (Mac / Windows / Tablet etc.)

Regards
Andy

Firefox on a year-ish-old MacBook Pro. 

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THANK YOU MARK! This has been making me want to tear my hair out. 

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Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Mark,

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Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu