Well, this forum is at it again. There were several messages posted here before Alexander's for today, but now they seem to be gone. Unlike other disappearing acts, however, these haven't even absord a number... that is, usually, when the notes disappear, there's a hole in the numbers reflecting their absence. Not today. These notes disappeared and there's no indication they were ever here. Weird. Or maybe I imagined them.

Steve Z.

Steve, you haven't imagined the messages, they were there. In fact, Opera has retained in its cache one of your messages, which I opened in a separate window, so I'll re-post it.

Until this is solved (no idea how) I will refrain from posting anything at this time of day. To explain: it is now 00:35, of the 18th here in Greece.

I have a suspicion that my own local time ahead of the system may cause some kind of conflict, perhaps occasionally re-setting the database.

In any case, even if this is an explanation, there are other factors at work too; I've posted messages at this time on previous occasions with no similar effect. And, as you said, this is the first time that there are no missing post numbers.

alx

Steve Z. -

These notes disappeared and there's no indication they were ever here. Weird. Or maybe I imagined them.

No, you didn't :-). There were two more. One from Steve C. to me, and my response to him. I don't have Steve's original message, but it was about my failure to replicate his problem with NoteMap, his upcoming move to XP, and his offer to send me his modified GV help file. My response was:

"Steve -

Re: Notemap: Maybe the behavior I described and you haven't been able to duplicate arises because I am still running Win 98SE.

Maybe I misunderstood you. However, no-one else has spoken up, so we can postpone further investigations until you move to XP :-).

(I'm about to bite the bullet & buy a new laptop with Win XP, but haven't decided yet on a processor.)

If you run GV under XP you will find the new DOSBox less easy to use for cutting and pasting than the WIN98 one, IMHO. Apart from that, most of my remaining DOS programs - apart from Papyrus - seem to run pretty smoothly. I currently use a Thinkpad A31 with 2.0Gh processor and about 780 RAM. It was from an IBM end-of-line sale. It seems enough for everything I use - so far.

Re: GrandView: AS you seem to be running GV fairly often,perhaps you would like to see my GV Help file, which includes some work-arounds, etc.?

Yes, please. I'd very much like to see your help file.

Derek"