if you are typing something on here and accidentally hit the esc key and loss all your writing, is there any?

Question

way to retrieve it, this is the 2nd time this has happened today causing me to lose all my good words and 2 hours of time.

If there is a way top retrieve it, can you give very easy to understand directions as I am a relative newbie. Thanks!

OMG--I did the whole frickin' thing again..retyped the long thing and right as I was gonna post it, hit the da-n esc key and lsot it...I am really ticked!!!

Answer 1

can you retrieve it, no. Is there a way to reduce it happening, yes.

I normally keep the notepad program running and when I want to type something longer then four or five lines, type it in wordpad and then cut and paste to Answers. The esc key does not close notepad

Plus as I repeat a lot of the same answers in the Comp&Int area, I have a bunch of them in files I can just cut & paste everytime somebody ask the same question (again and again and...) LOL

Answer 2

move your cursor over the text area and click your left mouse button to make the cursor appear. then press CTRL+Z to undo the delete

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Answer 3

well, that's definately an annoying thing, but there are many ways you can avoid that, one is by installing a spyware program (yes,it works), and by spyware program i mean install a keylogger program that stores everything you type so that when u accidentaly hit the esc key you can always check the log of your program an recover everything you typed by just copying and pasting, i would recommend you download adramax keylogger from hope it works for u,it works for me!!

Answer 4

unfortunately there is no way to do retrieve that as far as I know. however, for the next time use a word processor such as word perfect or Microsoft word. they should help you.

Answer 5

No there isn't that I know of and I have done the same thing several times myself.

Answer 6

me ohh my god i got soooo mad