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Writing Disappeared
1/20/26 | RetiredTexasVet

Posted on 01/20/2026 7:50:13 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet

As I was typing in a contribution to Free Republic and ready to hit the Enter Key, it all disappeared. Yep all that I had typed had simply disappeared. No warning message, nothing. Has it happened to anyone else? Then it hit me,


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1 posted on 01/20/2026 7:50:13 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet
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To: RetiredTexasVet

It hit you?


2 posted on 01/20/2026 7:53:17 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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April Fools is 2 months off. 😀

3 posted on 01/20/2026 8:00:08 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Something like that happened to me the other day. I accidentally hit some key, or a key combination, that wiped the “post” page out, or deleted everything I’d typed, I don’t remember exactly. I just re-typed it and posted normally.

Could be a recent release of Windows added some “hotkey” combination that wasn’t there before, or maybe it was just a fluke.


4 posted on 01/20/2026 8:04:49 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: RetiredTexasVet

I kept wondering why that ball got bigger and bigger as it came near me.

Then it hit me.


5 posted on 01/20/2026 8:05:07 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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Are you typing with a Windows keyboard? Windows has all sorts of weird multi-key “shortcuts”.

You might have accidentally hit a combination that erased the message field.

Just a guess, based on how Windows has tormented me for 30 years.


6 posted on 01/20/2026 8:07:41 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Turn off your laptop’s touchpad.

Quite common. Blink of an eye.


7 posted on 01/20/2026 8:08:44 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: RetiredTexasVet

happens if you accidentally hit escape.


8 posted on 01/20/2026 8:09:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

What hit you?


9 posted on 01/20/2026 8:10:20 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Anytime you have your writing disappear click this magic button.

It might not restore your writing, but it will do some good.

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10 posted on 01/20/2026 8:10:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Leaning Right

Just a guess, based on how Windows has tormented me for 30 years.
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So funny (and true) I had to repeat it.


11 posted on 01/20/2026 8:15:35 PM PST by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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12 posted on 01/20/2026 8:15:37 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: RetiredTexasVet

It was obviously a virul attack.


13 posted on 01/20/2026 8:19:00 PM PST by Jonty30 (Escasooners are faster than escalators,)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Used disappearing ink, didn’t you?


14 posted on 01/20/2026 8:23:07 PM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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Just do a control “Z” and it will all come back reversing whatever you did to make it go away.


15 posted on 01/20/2026 8:23:18 PM PST by JAKraig
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Love those kinds of shots as the deformations are amazing to watch.


16 posted on 01/20/2026 8:23:43 PM PST by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

It sometimes happens to me on my iPad.
If I open another window to check something before I’m finished writing, I have to hit preview to save what I’m doing or it might be gone when I go back to finish writing my post.


17 posted on 01/20/2026 8:23:45 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Drugs are Bad, mmKay..


18 posted on 01/20/2026 8:29:26 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Are you logged in?


19 posted on 01/20/2026 8:33:50 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: AAABEST

Finally. Someone wrote this.

This place is going downhill. Nineteen posts before the correct answer “Are you logged in?”


20 posted on 01/20/2026 8:36:08 PM PST by moviefan8
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