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Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:04:41 GMT

I was wondering if a "drafts" folder could be introduced to the PM system? If one happens to be in the middle of writing a PM and is interrupted (and if one is not the type to just waste energy and leave the computer running), then it could be quite helpful to save the PM in a drafts folder and resume it at a later point. I suppose one could export the text to Word and then from Word back to the PM on continuing the message, but that would be a bit...laborious ;-)

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

mo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:15:18 GMT

Not a bad idea....Could the editor handle it??

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

blank — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:51:41 GMT

Brilliant idea, have you tried out google notebook, tahts a quite nice way to save drafts and i think it has the similar functionality ...

I've also found out that sometimes i just want to save what i was going to say and finish the message or send it later as well on many forums but i havent yet seen one implementing it.

Would be nice if this forum had the option :)

Message Edited by blank on 06-06-2009 06:50 AM

Message Edited by blank on 06-06-2009 06:51 AM

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:44:58 GMT

blank wrote:
Brilliant idea, have you tried out google notebook, tahts a quite nice way to save drafts and i think it has the similar functionality ...

I've also found out that sometimes i just want to save what i was going to say and finish the message or send it later as well on many forums but i havent yet seen one implementing it.

Would be nice if this forum had the option :)
Message Edited by blank on 06-06-2009 06:50 AM
Message Edited by blank on 06-06-2009 06:51 AM

Thanks ;-))

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:24:03 GMT

Blogger.com, for example, has that system - it even auto-saves your post (while you're working on it) to a drafts folder to prevent the user from (accidentally) losing the post s/he is working on. So...what do the mods/staff/employees think? :-)

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:25:04 GMT

Something else just occurred to my birdbrain: would it be possible to send the same PM to more than one recipient, i.e. type in the names of two or more recipients in the "send to" slot of a PM?

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

huwyngr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:47:30 GMT

Moby_Duck wrote:
Something else just occurred to my birdbrain: would it be possible to send the same PM to more than one recipient, i.e. type in the names of two or more recipients in the "send to" slot of a PM?

Good question -- I tried it once and it didn't like it but there are so many permuations of separators -- spaces, commas, semicolons. I think I just tried spaces and it didn't work so I'll happily leave it to a moderator to reveal.

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

MikeLee — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:58:21 GMT

huwyngr wrote:

Moby_Duck wrote:
Something else just occurred to my birdbrain: would it be possible to send the same PM to more than one recipient, i.e. type in the names of two or more recipients in the "send to" slot of a PM?
Good question -- I tried it once and it didn't like it but there are so many permuations of separators -- spaces, commas, semicolons. I think I just tried spaces and it didn't work so I'll happily leave it to a moderator to reveal.

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

huwyngr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:51:39 GMT

Yes got yours.

With or without a space as well? Like Hugh, Mike or Hugh,Mike ?

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

MikeLee — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:46:55 GMT

huwyngr wrote:

Yes got yours.

With or without a space as well? Like Hugh, Mike or Hugh,Mike ?

With. Like Hugh, Mike.

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:25:51 GMT

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.

Thank you very much, MikeLee, and thanks for the experimental multiple-recipient PM ;-D

So...there wouldn't happen to be some hidden feature to save unfinished PMs?

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:52:40 GMT

Moby_Duck wrote:

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.
Thank you very much, MikeLee, and thanks for the experimental multiple-recipient PM ;-D
So...there wouldn't happen to be some hidden feature to save unfinished PMs?

Any news on a "saving-unfinished-PM" feature? ;-))

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:01:13 GMT

I think it may be best to declare the unsolved nature of this thread as the solution.

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Allen_K — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:36:08 GMT

Yaso_Kuuhl wrote:

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.
Thank you very much, MikeLee, and thanks for the experimental multiple-recipient PM ;-D
So...there wouldn't happen to be some hidden feature to save unfinished PMs?

I wouldn't really call it a hidden feature... I would more likely call it a 'work around'.

But if I was writing a long PM that I wanted to save for period of time what I would do is send it to myself. Just change the "To:" to my own name. Then when ready to work on the message again, I would just open it, select all the text and copy it to my clipboard and paste it into a new message.

Hope that helps!

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:12:40 GMT

Allen_K wrote:

I wouldn't really call it a hidden feature... I would more likely call it a 'work around'.

But if I was writing a long PM that I wanted to save for period of time what I would do is send it to myself. Just change the "To:" to my own name. Then when ready to work on the message again, I would just open it, select all the text and copy it to my clipboard and paste it into a new message.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the tip, Allen! ;-)

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:50:08 GMT

Tried the copy-pasting process while writing a marathon PM - the format gets all garbled, paragraphs and line breaks appear where they shouldn't ;-( It would really be nice to have a separate drafts folder to temporarily save messages in process.

Message Edited by Yaso_Kuuhl on 08-06-2009 02:50 PM

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Phil_D — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:46:15 GMT

Hi Yaso_Kuuhl,

To prevent the garbled formatting when copying and pasting, this is what I do when composing a lengthy post:

1) After some text, images, links have been entered that you want to save, click the Edit As HTML button. When the reply box changes to HTML format, place your cursor at the very beginning (uppermost left corner of reply box). Hit Crtl A > Crtl C and then paste the HTML into notepad.

You can save this txt file for later. As you continue adding to the "marathon post" repeat the above procedure, replacing the content in the txt file that you have saved.

2) To recover from a "lost" response, just reopen a new Reply window, then start by clicking Edit As HTML. Copy the HTML contents from the txt file you previously saved and paste into the HTML editing window.

3) Now switch back to Graphical Editor and you will see that all formatting from your saved response has been preserved including text format, images, links, fonts, emotions, etc.

It may sound complicated but it is really quite easy once you have done it a few times.

[edit: added content]

Message Edited by Phil_D on 08-06-2009 09:46 AM

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:40:53 GMT

Thanks a lot, I'll try that out ;-)))

Message Edited by Yaso_Kuuhl on 08-06-2009 04:40 PM

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Yaso_Kuuhl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:03:04 GMT

Phil_D wrote:
Hi Yaso_Kuuhl,

To prevent the garbled formatting when copying and pasting, this is what I do when composing a lengthy post:

1) After some text, images, links have been entered that you want to save, click the Edit As HTML button. When the reply box changes to HTML format, place your cursor at the very beginning (uppermost left corner of reply box). Hit Crtl A > Crtl C and then paste the HTML into notepad.

You can save this txt file for later. As you continue adding to the "marathon post" repeat the above procedure, replacing the content in the txt file that you have saved.

2) To recover from a "lost" response, just reopen a new Reply window, then start by clicking Edit As HTML. Copy the HTML contents from the txt file you previously saved and paste into the HTML editing window.

3) Now switch back to Graphical Editor and you will see that all formatting from your saved response has been preserved including text format, images, links, fonts, emotions, etc.

It may sound complicated but it is really quite easy once you have done it a few times.

[edit: added content]
Message Edited by Phil_D on 08-06-2009 09:46 AM

Yays!!! Thanks, Phil_D! It worked ;-D

Re: Saving an unfinished PM

Phil_D — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:25:28 GMT

I'm glad you found it helpful.

Best Wishes!