All sorted @edgescape

No, it's not just you @edgescape - it happened to me last night also. Seems every time I save my posts into a Word document before saving here, the saving here works, but whenever I forget to do that or get overconfident, I get the blank screen or the home screen without the saving icon, or the saving icon keeps spinning and never stops. I thought it might be my browser because whenever I use CCleaner to clean my cache and free up memory it seems to fix the issue for a while, but it seems to happen fairly randomly.

I also just got a new cordless mouse and it has side buttons that I'm not used to and the one on the left side (not on the top left, but on the actual side of the mouse) takes you back to the previous screen, as if you clicked on the back arrow at the top left corner of the browser screen - and occasionally I squeeze that button in error when moving the mouse, which is certainly a "Grrrr!" moment - I'll get my son to disable that button over the weekend - I could Google how to do it but he already knows so that will be quicker.

At least I have Win 11 working now and I can use MS Paint - although it has less functions than the legacy "3D Paint" - for instance I used to be able to rotate arrows or text or anything I wanted to any angle, but not with the "new" MS Paint. Arrows are up, down, left or right, that's it. You can flip stuff 180 degrees or rotate it 90 degrees, but nothing inbetween. First World problems, eh!

I do find that the chances of this site not saving a post seems to correlate fairly closely to the length of time I spend writing the post, i.e. the longer I spend, the less likely it will save. There's probably a techie explanation for that, but I just try to remember that correlation to help prompt me to copy the post before I try to save it when I have spent a fair whack of time on it.

@RhinoInvestor @Bear77 @edgescape

It's happened to me too, and is super frustrating. We've had a look before, but can't see anything obvious.. but that just means we need to dig deeper.

My safety net is to ctrl-A ctrl-C (select all and copy) before I got post.

@Strawman

On a bit more thinking, assuming this is a cluster application consisting of a few server nodes with a load balancer on top, this looks like a sticky session issue where after a certain time, the browser session is redirected to another node instead of the browser session staying on the current node in the cluster.

Anyway this is an analogy I am borrowing from what I've seen in the past with other load balanced applications.

I *think* I get what you're saying @edgescape, but I'll pass it on to those that definitely do.

Appreciate the assist.

Hi Bear

twelve months ago I discovered an interesting fix for a problem similar to what is described above. I likened it to a constipated computer!

Instead of just shutting down the computer, at least once a week I do a "Restart" and this clears out the problematic cache.

Then just do a normal "Shut down".

Note:- I have Windows11 on board also now.

Worth a try! Cheers Mallers in Melbourne

That might help with the forum posts not saving issue @Mallers - is that the issue you were referring to? If so, that issue was lodged in this thread one year ago. I haven't had the issue in recent months.

My addition today to this thread was about company closing prices varying between the Commsec and the ASX websites, and that issue remains the same even when I log on using my laptop, my phone or my PC, so not a cache issue this time - it's simply different data stored on those respective websites for some reason.

But I will remember your cache-cleaning short-cut for other problems that seem to be more related to my own device. I also use CCleaner Pro daily to clear cache and delete files that are no longer needed before I put my PC to sleep each night, or whenever it is running slowly. That seems to work well also.

Tha ks @AUROPAL

All positions closed out at 24c

@Strawman - likwise my CSR holding in my account.

Thx

C

Done @Chagsy