Scrivener Forum Error

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  1. Drafted a post.
  2. Started to upload a screen shot.
  3. Forum threw this error:
  4. Draft is being edited in another window. Please reload this page. Occurred while uploading a screen shot.
  5. No other browser window was open.
  6. On re-connecting with L & L, post was lost.
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Why upload a screenshot? Just paste it from memory.

Even if it’s saved as a .jpg, .png or a .webp file, drag it into the forum message, and it opens immediately as a picture.

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Bugs with the forum would need to be filed to the developers that make the forum. I can tentatively warn you though that they are going to need a lot more than that (try it again, does it reproduce the bug? Probably not!), and you should definitely search for this warning message over there, before posting about it, to see if there are already clues (or even developer explanations) that match what you saw.

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Thank you. I am plagued by low memory conditions which seem to produce odd behavior.

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That’s probably a good clue then for them. I would recommend drafting posts in a plain text editor and copying and pasting once you are done. That’s what I do for all but stuff like this.

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Does the new program have a lighter footprint/overhead than Scrivener?

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I wouldn’t say so, as Scrivener is already, in the grand scheme of things, very lightweight on both platforms. The bulk of its data usage is going to be the data you work with, within it, and the types of operations you perform. That part isn’t going to change, no matter which program you use.

You should use Task Manager, or Activity Monitor, to audit what uses the most RAM. For me it is rarely Scrivener (or the new program). The browser is usually the worst hog on the system, but Electronware (like VS Code or Obsidian) can also be culprits because they are not only software, but the single-use browser needed to run them, too.

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