Since today, I am unable to do a Quick Edit. To be precise, the post goes to "edit state" as expected when I click Edit > Quick Edit, and I can edit at will, but when I click the Complete Edit button the box saying "Loading. Please Wait..." won't go away and the post I was editing won't return to its normal view state.

I tried it again twice just now (three and a half hours later) and it's still happening, even if I don't edit anything.

Using Edit > Full Edit works as expected.

I'm using Opera 9.01 build 8552 and its Error Console doesn't report any problems from MSFN that could be related to this.

Edited August 13, 200620 yr by Tomcat76

I did some more testing. I have several browsers (and several versions of each) installed and I tried it in two others:

Opera 9.01 weekly build 8542

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.5a 20060708

It happens there too.

I'm using Opera as my main browser and I obviously used every version/weekly of it released in the past couple of months when visiting MSFN, so it might be a cache issue. But that theory breaks because quick editing a post fails using SeaMonkey 1.5a too.

What about IE and Firefox?

And yes, I'm aware of what the SeaMonkey is (I added this line using QuickEdit by the way)

I sometimes have the problem too.

I think it was always because of a connection drop.

Maybe "quick edit" should first check if it still connected to the internet ?

I had the problem the other day, and I just thought it was my computer (not the fastest, hopefully will still run Vista). I was using Firefox at the time.

the_guy

I've been testing some more and I think I narrowed it down to two possibilities.

I can quick edit my posts in the current thread.

I can quick edit the main post of this thread.

But I can't quick edit the main posts of these two: 1 / 2

What distinguishes the last two from the first two is that they are quite long and that they are sticky posts.

Edited August 13, 200620 yr by Tomcat76

Found it.

Quick edit can no longer work with bullet signs: •

This post can't be quick-edited.

This is similar to the Euro bug.

Yeah, I realize that now.

The reason I only noticed this the other day is because I haven't edited those two specific posts which contain bullets for nearly a month.

What's strange is that Martin L writes:

IPSBeyond has something with custom BB code which can make this work ok i think.... i will try this when i am back home

That suggests that the problem has always been there but that isn't the case -- at least not with the bullets. I've been using them since December last year and have almost always used the Quick Edit feature.

This forum (IPB), including Quick Edit, gets upgraded frequently. It is quite possible that a recent upgrade caused this particular problem.

I don't use the bullet sign and I can't use quick edit. It happens in my hotfix threads in the HFSLIP subforum.

the_guy

@the_guy

In your case it's because you're using an endash instead of a hyphen once in a while. Are you using Word or similar program that automatically converts hyphens to endashes?

Yes, I use word. Thanks Tomcat!

the_guy

Is this a problem with just a few characters, or is it all of these

€

and possibly these

Edited August 14, 200620 yr by Yzöwl