Gmail was buggy with composing mail, so sprang for paying Outlook, now *IT* did the bug today

[UTUSN]

I suppose I've got some kind of corruption/malware/whatever.

But a couple or more years ago, when all I used was gmail, it was a real pain when composing an email it would suddenly disappear and not be found again either by the Back arrow or anything.

Actually, sometimes this would happen on DU when tapping out an extra long post, typing "fast" and hitting two keys with one finger - and poof, all gone.

So after much frustration with losing text, I sprang for paying for Outlook and maybe had the two-keys finger problem occasionally, but today with a gmail after doing all the time and work, the whole thing went extremely BUGGY - didn't all disappear, but parts did and there was some gibberish distorted text. Back arrow didn't work.

And usually this happens when there's no time to re-do the whole thing. Today I made the time to re-do it first on gmail, then on Outlook and it just wouldn't work.

My solution was to keyboard it into a blank DU post, Copy the finished thing into a new Outlook email. Before this, also used to type the whole thing into a Word document, then Copy it into email.

But is something going on with the 'net?

[cilla4progress]

1. I had a funny typing issue here this morning, too!

The cursor was in front of the letters I was typing. Never seen that before!

Closed the site and when I went back in, it worked.

Actually - twitter acting up too rn!

[UTUSN]

2. A day or two ago there was news about a solar blast this way?

[sdfernando]

7. You probably inadvertently hit the "insert" key, or did a ctrl+I without realizing it. /nt

[cilla4progress]

8. Yes, that was also my assumption so I tested it

multiple times and didn't fix things?! Anyway, closing the site and going back in fixed.

Other gremlins with the 'net today - anyone else experiencing this?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. I hate to say it but 'clear your cache' and test and if no good, try a different browser.

[UTUSN]

4. I'll be glad to hear/try anything, thanks.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. You say you have the paid outlook ... have you installed the app on your machine

or are you using a web-based outlook client?

Is this Windows, or phone, or?

[UTUSN]

6. I paid Microsoft, it's on my laptop, Windows, not web based

I think it's on my phone but I never use it there.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Okay, I have the exact same scenario on mine. If you can describe steps to reproduce it

I'm happy to try and see if I can repro on my machine if you'd like

Apart from that ... not too sure what to say other than leveraging another app to compose in, if it's going to be an elaborate/time-consuming email ... is a good if inconvenient work-around.

I don't think it's a corruption/malware, btw. I suspect even the installed Outlook actually runs on a browser instance (customized to not look like a browser) so having similar problems with web-based gmail and installed outlook both ... is not that shocking to me.

[UTUSN]

10. Today's problem was different: besides lost text there were distorted lines of

text with distorted graphics/lines.

Before it was just all text DISAPPEARED. There are no *steps* to give you. As I said it was basically hitting two random keys simultaneously accidentally. Today was different.

My workarounds were to re-do everything in either Word or in a DU dummy post. But the two keys prob disappears text in DU, too.

Today was DIFFERENT.

Answering tons of technical questions is as usual way above my pay grade and time consuming, especially here pecking on phone with one finger. And subject to being frustratingly disappeared.

Another of my workarounds, this for disappearing text in DU, is to Post halfway through which seals it in, then Edit to finish it.

[joetheo]

14. Did you get it to work?

Did you get it to work?

[UTUSN]

15. Hah! - not from anything *I* did - just went away FOR NOW. Like the plug-unplug thang!1

Yeah, all my emailing since the original post have been "normal" - so who knows?!

I really think there was a solar storm thing going on. Seriesly.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. i usually print these out and put them in a note book in case it happens again.

i do that for any situation and or problem w computers and the net. thanks for the work around . there is always a work around .

[UTUSN]

12. You can *print*?!1 - my HP conks out just when i need it!

[AllaN01Bear]

13. lol

yes. too bad on your printer.