In reply to a long list of people on a Blogger forum bitterly complaining of their work disappearing before being posted to blogspot.com sites:
I suffered the same fate yesterday!
In my case, invoking the Blockquote tool froze Safari (Mac) twice in a row, and inexplicably half my post was lost and/or overwritten by a partial version of the post.
This was not the fault of any other application or the Mac or me. It was due to a problem in Blogger itself!
I now have stuck a sign above my monitor saying NEVER NEVER COMPOSE IN BLOGGER! I compose in Pages and paste the text in afterwards. (I already was used to occasionally importing pasted text from other sources into Pages to fix spurious line-spacing issues.)
But it’s a shame to have to do this.
I also just spent $80 for Keylogger. Details here:
I’ve set this app saves screenshots every 3 minutes and all keystrokes. (FYI, the keystrokes log can be a bit tedious to sort through; if I had another Blogger disaster, I’d likely rekey the post by viewing a series of the screenshots. The Keylogger JPGs can be blown up on the screen so you can read every bit of type, no matter how small, in any captured window.)
I am irritated that I should have to purchase such software, but after this disastrous incident losing a blog that I’d carefully worked on for hours, I won’t risk another catastrophe.
(FWIW, Spector Pro, another keystroke logger tool, seems to have a superior interface, but they no longer support PPC, only Intel Macs. Bastards!)
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