Alt Left Enter Repeat

Alt+Left, Enter, Repeat.

The dance some people do when they see the CantOpenWikiDbForUpdate error.

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A humble plea: if you find yourself doing this, use some sort of random, increasing backoff. For example, I get CantOpenWikiDbForUpdate, I hit AltLeftEnterRepeat, I get the error again; I count to 5 before trying again; I count to 10 before trying yet another time; 20; 40; etc. (The randomness comes from counting, rather than looking at a watch.) -- GeorgePaci

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Other keystrokes that might work better than Alt+Left, Enter:

• Ctrl+R, Enter -- though this might not work if you have your browser's cache options set to "Check for newer versions of the page: Every time I view the page.". (If you're wondering, the Enter is to Ok the "Send form data again?" box.)
• Backspace, Enter -- though this doesn't work on Netscape.
• F5 -- Why didn't anyone else think of this? DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork

Using Netscape, after Alt+Left, I have to click on SAVE (Enter is ignored). Ctrl+R, Enter also works.

Using M$IE, pressing F5 doesn't always work. And if it fails you lose your changes.

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I suggest that people list here their favourite key/click sequence for each browser. In that way it might be useful and avoid the blanket statements that turn out not to be true in all cases.

• !Browse for the Acorn RiscPC StrongARM - right-click the "Save" button. This opens a new window and leaves the edit window open for retries.