<p>I’m wondering whether anyone else is having the problems I’m having sending PMs. If I type a fairly long message directly into the text box, then when I hit “send” I get an error screen, saying that I will have to log in to send messages, and everything I’ve typed is lost. Of course, I had been logged in, but somehow was logged out during the time it took me to type the message. I’ve tried typing message into MS Word and pasting them into the text box, but then the messages are truncated at the first special character (', ", -, etc.). So now I paste in the messages, but go through and replace all the special characters by hand (delete apostrophe, type in another, etc.). This is very cumbersome. </p>
<p>Does anyone else have this problems? Is there a better solution?</p>
<p>nymomof2,
I’ve had the same problem. Once the sign on screen appears, I sign in again, then go “back” to the message which still appears. I then hit the “submit message” button once again and then the message is sent. This seems to be a work around for the problem.</p>
<p>Thanks, Condor and Weenie. I’m pretty sure that when I signed in again before, I was unable to get back to the screen with the message. But it was a while ago, so I may be mistaken. I’ll try using notepad next time.</p>
<p>I’ve also posted this in the forum issues board.</p>
<p>You are being timed out. I avoid this problem by highlighting and saving any long PMs or posts prior to hitting send. That way I can just paste the text back in after the relog-in.</p>
<p>I also copy and paste my post before sending like coureur. Not the most efficient way to type a post, but it keeps me from losing what I have typed. I don’t just have trouble with PM, I also have to do this for any long posts in the forums.</p>
<p>For those of you that don’t log out after each use, do you have the same problem? I don’t remember having this problem when I stayed logged on, but I changed to logging of when I began to post more personal information on my children. I didn’t want them to see that I was talking about them to “strangers.”</p>
<p>I have a slightly different problem. I type a message in Word, then cut and paste it to send as a PM. This used to be 100% successful. Now, though, it just doesn’t work. My recipient invariably gets a blank page! Anyone else having this problem, and any solutions?</p>
<p>I typed several profound PMs this weekend and lost them all being told I was not logged in, when of course I had to have logged in to get there :(</p>
<p>Perhaps the mods could have the time out feature extended for all of us junkies.</p>
<p>I am having problems too. I typed a fairly long message into Microsoft Word then copied and pasted it into the CC text box. I then sent it to another poster in the form of a P.M. She notified me that my message had been cut off. When I checked the copy of the message in the sent items box, I discovered that only a very short portion of the message had been sent. I tried to re-send the message multiple times this morning and have found that even less of the message is getting through! Only around 5 lines of text are being transmitted. I thought perhaps I was having the same problem as NYMomof2, that is having the message cut off at the first apostrophe, comma, quotation mark, etc., but that is not the case. I’m not being timed out. I know that I am still logged on. I have not been getting any messages saying I am not logged in like some of the above posters. I seem to be having the same difficulty as WJB and SouthJerseyChessMom. What is going on???</p>