Can't paste

PennysIntoPounds

What I did:

TrTried To paste text

AnwSat i pasted shows

What happened:

(Other than the forum auto formatting issues in my text here)

OOnce Text pasted the box goes blank and disappears. You can't edit it or see it. You also can't see bookmarked threads etc links at bottom or top of page so you have to reload entire forum in address bar

Why it matters:

The site doesn't work

Device/Browser:

AAndroid Chrome

eskbanker

Surely rather than starting multiple threads simply saying that you can't paste text, it would make more sense to clarify exactly what you're trying to copy/paste, from where, and what differentiates it from normal text, e.g. formatting, etc?

I've written this in a simple text editor (Notepad on Windows) and copy/pasted it into the forum editor....

…and then edited it on arrival, so clearly some text can be pasted and edited!

PHK

Its was someone else reporting they couldn't paste

PennysIntoPounds

There was a different issue with pasting and I thought @MSE_Stephen had set this section up because they wanted us to report different problems individually @eskbanker

Your experience was not the same as mine, and I have been trying my best to explain what has occurred.

I imagine there are a lot of people unable to paste @PHK! But thank you

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81863768#Comment_81863768

Crossed wires I think - I was referring to this other one of OP's:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6652952/cant-paste

whereas I believe you may be talking about this one (which has plenty of diagnostic detail):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6653073/paste-no-longer-works-in-the-rte

There obviously is at least one issue with pasting but clearly the more information about exact circumstances, the more likelihood there is of reproducing, isolating, and resolving them!

PennysIntoPounds

Hi @MSE_Stephen just to update that this temporarily worked yesterday but is now back to showing a blank condensed box when I paste from my phone notes to my diary text box.

It also still has the issue of when this occurs, the bookmarks links disappearing from bottom (the big list) and top of page (as in, my profile button isn't there for me to navigate from)

If I refresh my diary page in the address bar it shows the same thing so I still have to put the forum address in the address bar to get back to my diary and my comment is not saved. It doesn't save or show if I press save draft or post draft either

Using android and chrome

Thank you for all your work on these issues

MSE_Stephen

Hi

Unless there's any more info pointing to a specific issue, this looks like it could be related to a caching issue that's causing other issues, like the Quote down-arrow sometimes not showing/not working.

I'll keep an eye out for any other members reporting similar issues.

PennysIntoPounds

Hi @MSE_Stephen thank you for your reply but I don't understand most of what you wrote, and it would be nice for people to be able to contribute to the forums without them needing to have the technological know-how of how they work! 🙂

This is what occurs when I try to paste my diary entry. I, and many other forum members, unfortunately can't remember everything we want to say throughout the day to write it directly in.

And it seems a real shame for an 'upgrade' to result in people being much less able to use the forum than they were able to previously