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| Logging in and making posts.. is forum going.. [SOLVED] | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 Mar 28 19:20 | ||
| Did the forum do a global re-initiate of all the logon passwords ??
I tried to log on 4 or 5 times but screen (index screen) kept showing the logon/password boxes. Then, when I looked down at the bottom on the index page, my user ID was listed, even though the top of the screen included the usual logon/password boxes. So, what's going on ?? I had to re-activate my password of 8 years and now I got this new incrypted-looking password that i'm never gonna remember. Yeah, what trick are you up to now, Baldrick ?? Also, I can't seem to make any posts. I keep getting the logon on screen! EDIT: All this happended while I was in Opera. Never happended before, unless you fixed it while I just tried to re-log on again, though this time, in Netscape browser, and its working now, in this browser, so far. I'll try tomorrow, in Opera. maybe it was something I did on my end here. -vhelp 4591 | ||
| Baldrick posted 2008 Mar 29 07:45 | ||
| I haven't changed anything in months....:)
Probably some cookie problem, try remove all videohelp cookies in opera. | ||
| AlanHK posted 2008 Mar 29 07:51 | ||
| I use Opera. The cookies log me in normally, perhaps once a month I need to login manually, either due to corruption or perhaps they've just expired. | ||
| Baldrick posted 2008 Mar 29 07:55 | ||
| I use IE and Firefox and I never need to login in manually. The cookies shouldn't expire...but it could be some bug that I have missed.
vhelp: You can change password under your profile. | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 Mar 29 12:23 | ||
| I'm Using Opera v9.2, and I've never had this or any kind of problem with it, ever. So I don't
know what caused this to happen. But fwiw, my cmos clock blanked out on me (1/2002) and I had to re-seat it and reset the time, though I didn't set the year properly. Today, when I realized this, I reset everything back to their correctness. I went to the menu bar and selected the Tools\Advanced\Cookies.. and proceeded to search for videohelp and found it. I deleted it. It only have two cookies that I could tell. There like thousands of cookies -- thanks google. Anyway. But you can't delete all the cookes from all the URL links listed in that listing because there is no delete all cookies under Opera :( But never the less I still can not log in! If anybody has any ideas please give steps because I'm getting nowheres with Netscape once I close down I loose all the tabs and webpages. And thats no fun :( Thanks, -vhelp 4594 | ||
| AlanHK posted 2008 Mar 29 23:55 | ||
Tools/Delete Private Data/Details/Delete all cookies Also see Tools/Advanced/Cookies Perhaps you've blocked cookies from the site. My default setting is no cookies. I allow them for sites I trust if they need them (use F12). Occasionally I use the cookie manager and weed them out. | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 Mar 30 08:38 | ||
| wohoo! I'm back in the game guys. Thanks AlanHK, that did the trick. Its grate how
Opera has that save session feature, else I would have lost all my TABs in doing this function. Thanks Baldrick, for the password tip. I"ll look into it when I get the chance. -vhelp 4597 | ||
| lordsmurf posted 2008 Mar 30 20:31 | ||
| I've had login troubles with this site for at least a year now. I quit using IE6 entirely, and have been 100% Firefox. So it saves passwords, and is therefore not as big an issue for me now. It's only two sites that do it. Not sure why. | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 Mar 30 22:10 | ||
| I think that what might have happend in my case was that my cooke jar got too full and
it went kookoo!! I had thousands of cookies. And when I deleted them all, I did notice that my Opera browser operates with a little more juice and less memory. But, since my last lounch of Opera after deleting all the cookies, (this morning) I found another 60 or so in the jar and each cookie has sub-levels of other cookies. There's prob a good 500 cookies in their, now :x I don't know what else to do, except wait for this to happen again, though this is the first time this has ever happend to me while using Opera, and I recently upgraded to v9.2 if that matters. -vhelp 4619 | ||
| AlanHK posted 2008 Apr 01 01:38 | ||
This is how I do it: Tools/Preferences Cookies: Select "Never accept cookies". Now when you visit a site that you want to allow cookies (like this one): F12 -- check "enable cookies". Reload the page. A dialogue will come up asking you to allow the cookie. Select the option to allow cookies from the domain. You will probably get a storm of these, including cookies from advertising banners. Reject those. F12 -- UNcheck "enable cookies". And you can review and delete cookies using Tools/Advanced Cookies to get rid of any you accidentally allowed. After I've allowed the forums I visit to set their cookies, I only have to mess with cookies a few times a week. I doubt this has much of a performance effect though. The browser has to deal with the request regardless of whether it allows it. I do it for privacy reasons. | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 May 25 11:48 | ||
| I'm having trouble logging in again !! using Opera.
When I log in, my user name shows up at the bottom of the INDEX page. But at the top, it still says, login, and I can't make any posts because it bring up the log on screen again. Also, I can't even log out !! To get to here and make a post I had to lounch my Netscape browser, just like I did the last time. -vhelp 4688 | ||
| Baldrick posted 2008 May 25 11:52 | ||
| Can you check how many videohelp cookies you have right now? if it's possible with opera. If you have too many it will probably not work. | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 May 25 11:58 | ||
| If I can remember, I'll try :x
I honestly didn't think it would happen again, but this time, I don't know what is causing it to happen and I sure would like to know the exact cause so that I can do something about it or watch for it or something. I don't know :x -vhelp 4689 | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 May 25 12:13 | ||
| Ahh, I think I know what the problem is. Now that I think about it, I remember it happening
to me the exact way. My motherboard's clock date/time gave out and I had to reset it this morning. When I was saving a copy of jpg image of screen-copy of my cooky for ya I couldn't find the file in the latest dated order. I then dragged my mouse over to my clock and low and behold, it was dated wrong -- was showing May 25, 2003 :doh: You think this has something to do with reseting my cookie/s or something ?? In any case, I'll let you know if I can log back in after I log out of netscape and reset my date to May 25, 2008 and try and log back in but through Opera. -vhelp 4690 | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 May 25 12:30 | ||
| [SOLVED]
It was because I set the date wrong in my pc, and that changed the way the cookie would respond. -vhelp 4691 | ||
| AlanHK posted 2008 May 25 19:18 | ||
Get an NTP time setting app and set it to adjust your clock -- On WinXP this is built in, look at the tab for "Internet time" on the clock on the task bar, turn it on. See http://tf.nist.gov/service/pdf/win2000xp.pdf For earlier versions, get an app like Dimension4 and set it to run daily. Preferably look for a local (to you) time server rather than the default, but it should work regardless. | ||
| vhelp posted 2008 May 25 19:34 | ||
| Thanks for the tips, however..
I do all my other power-house stuff on my XP computer, minus interneting. I don't want M$ 's hands on my new XP Home computer. This is for my Video Workstation only, and programming, too. The problem occured on my aging ECS K7S5A motherboard which I run Windows 98 on and surf the internet from. It mostly serves me for my internet needs. -vhelp 4695 | ||
| AlanHK posted 2008 May 25 20:06 | ||
Or if you're comfortable with command lines, Switime is simple and small. |
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