Many will craft content in notepad or for me a simple control A and control C will save what I have in the clipboard.
I too have been hit when I accidently was not in the text box and tapped the return or the backspace key and poof.
Bob
A couple of times I seem to have run afoul of your time clock! I carefully typed out a kinda long (for me at least) reply to a post, and as I was typing the last few sentences, sceeen did a little quiver, then I was on some other page! By the time I found my way back to where I was, everything typed was MIA. Since then I've been keeping my answers/posts short & concise...but wondering if there is way around the timer. I'm a deadly slow typist (ADD & Dyslexia) so don't tell me to just type faster!Plus I'd like to spell check prior to posting since I can't edit posts here....

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