Saving Listings

I have had this happen to me one too many times. One listing, I spent over 3 hours on and in one click of the button, a one minute hang, boom, the listing was lost and I had to start from the beginning.

I have learned since that once I recognize the hangup within a few seconds of hitting the save button, I immediatly go to copy the description so that at least I have that if the listing is not saved. That simple task has saved me dozens of times!

Best, Paul

I'm a first time user and it took me two days to get my profiles up for precisely this reason - every time I went to save up would come the dreaded "Can't find Server" window. When the server was eventually found my work, unfortunately, was not and I had to start again.

I overcame this by writing everything out in a Word document and when the Auctiva site was accessible, copied and pasted the words. Since the Auctiva servers are so unreliable I am now doing this for everything. Frustrating, time consuming ... most definately but it works.

I use web based applications at work and here at home and many have a cache on th elocal hard drive to write temp files to so they can be recovered if the internet connection fails for any reason. I'm not a techy so I don't know how it works but the technology is available and it would be useful to have it.

Yes, I do often managed to save the text of the main listing in Word. However, I often have a lot of 'variables' to change , which is extremely time-consuming. As TenCher says, I know it's possible to save automatically in many pieces of software. I live in hope!