I had a couple of days of head-scratching, then rising panic. I’ve been using a registered copy of ecto for Windows and had found this thread on their support forum that seemed to address the problem.
So I duly followed the instructions, which were a little bit scary – basically, I had to edit a config file. Great, fine, but it didn’t fix the problem.
I mentioned it to the Geek in Residence, my husband David. And he mentioned that a couple of other programs exhibit the same annoying behavior, and then with a click or two, there was ecto.
Here were the steps:
Start ecto. It “runs” in the task bar, and appears to be minimized, However, no amount of right or left clicking will bring it up or open it. However, it actually IS open and is somewhere off the edge of the screen.
Right-click. Then select “Move.” Then press either the right or left arrow key until hey presto, the ecto window marches across the top or bottom of your screen. In this case, David held down the right arrow key, because the ecto window was far off to the upper left. Hurray! a week and a half’s worth of suspended drafts is still there!
I hadn’t really lost any posts, but I might have lost them if I’d followed the advice in the support forum. One of the suggestions was to completely delete the ecto folder and do a clean re-install. Uh, no.
I registered for the forum, but haven’t received the email yet with my confirmation key, so I can’t log in yet to mention this simple and non-invasive fix.
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Heh. The post is out there now — with my comment on it (not realizing which “Ginny” it was making it). It’s a small world …