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For some reason the search function doesn't seem to be working for me, when every I put what I want to search into the the box and hit the button it just refreshes the page. Any ideas why that might be happening?

That's what it does when it doesn't find any matches. Try something you know is there and see if that works.

Or if what you're searching for isn't long enough, that might be happening. I think it won't accept it if you're searching for one four-letter word or something like that.

I'm suddenly not receiving e-mail notifications of my subscriptions, and I can't figure out why. :huh:

My profile seems to be set up correctly, and I've always gotten them in the past. I'm also receiving other e-mails, so I'm a little puzzled. When I look at my subscriptions, under "Notification" it says "Instant."

If it's any help, I had two Owls the other day, and wasn't notified of those either until I visited CoS. I haven't changed my e-mail address at all, so it's a mystery.

Thanks in advance for looking into that. :)

Or if what you're searching for isn't long enough, that might be happening. I think it won't accept it if you're searching for one four-letter word or something like that.

I think it's 3 characters or less, I know because I tried searching for a U2 thread before and although I knew it was there it wasn't returned!

I'm suddenly not receiving e-mail notifications of my subscriptions, and I can't figure out why.

My profile seems to be set up correctly, and I've always gotten them in the past. I'm also receiving other e-mails, so I'm a little puzzled. When I look at my subscriptions, under "Notification" it says "Instant."

If it's any help, I had two Owls the other day, and wasn't notified of those either until I visited CoS. I haven't changed my e-mail address at all, so it's a mystery.

Thanks in advance for looking into that.

Hmmm that is strange, I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else is having these issues. Not that I can think of a reason why it should happen but have the notifications gone to spam?

Liselle: My Spam folder is empty, and nothing from CoS has ever gone in there before.

I'm going to check my e-mail settings just in case, but I can't imagine how those would have been changed. I'm on AOL.

Emailing you privately Silver_Ink_Pot :)

Emailing you privately Silver_Ink_Pot :)

Thanks ~ but for instance, I got your Owl, but not an e-mail telling me it was there. And it didn't go into my Spam folder either.

And I've been testing other places that usually send me notifications and all that is working fine. This is a mystery.

Thanks ~ but for instance, I got your Owl, but not an e-mail telling me it was there. And it didn't go into my Spam folder either.

And I've been testing other places that usually send me notifications and all that is working fine. This is a mystery.Is your problem by any chance similar to this:My email server is blockin e-mails from CoS, like subscriptions, because they are from an automated system. I need the Cos. E-mail address so I can unblock the address. posted in Ask the Staff a few days ago?

I've got an issue where when I choose the "Mark Forum Read" option, it doesn't alwyas respond. However it's only in some areas. If I do it in Flourish and Blotts, or Magical Masterpieces, it works fine right away, but in the Quidditch Pitch, or some of the DH areas, I have to do it 4 or 5 times, and sometimes it won't go at all. Is this an issue on my end, or is it just because those places get updated so quickly?? Not really a big problem ,just something I've been wondering about.

Hi, I've been having the same problem as SIP. In fact, it's been going on for me ever since DH was released. Do you think it's the email provider? Because I have AOL too, so maybe something's gone on with AOL screennames.

The odd thing is, prior to the release of DH, I could get the emails for thread updates easily. But now, zip, nada. Not even in the spam folder, I've checked.

I've got an issue where when I choose the "Mark Forum Read" option, it doesn't alwyas respond. However it's only in some areas. If I do it in Flourish and Blotts, or Magical Masterpieces, it works fine right away, but in the Quidditch Pitch, or some of the DH areas, I have to do it 4 or 5 times, and sometimes it won't go at all. Is this an issue on my end, or is it just because those places get updated so quickly?? Not really a big problem ,just something I've been wondering about.

I'm not one of the technical admins, but some threads move fast enough that there will be new posts between when you hit the button and when you look again. So I think it's the updating is going so quickly :).

Hi, I've been having the same problem as SIP. In fact, it's been going on for me ever since DH was released. Do you think it's the email provider? Because I have AOL too, so maybe something's gone on with AOL screennames.

The odd thing is, prior to the release of DH, I could get the emails for thread updates easily. But now, zip, nada. Not even in the spam folder, I've checked.

Hello!

I am looking into this one :)

ignisia and silver ink pot... I think it's an AOL issue. They tend to block out all forum(in particular vbulletin) emails. It might be good enough of an excuse to change your emails to a non aol account, as AOL sucks. majorly. ;)

Do you have any idea how much that reminds me of my brother?? AOL sucks was his motto for a while.

Anyway, thanks for the help chparadise!!

ignisia and silver ink pot... I think it's an AOL issue. They tend to block out all forum(in particular vbulletin) emails. It might be good enough of an excuse to change your emails to a non aol account, as AOL sucks. majorly. ;)
I don't quite understand what you mean - I've had AOL the whole time I've been here and this has never happened. :huh: I checked my SPAM list and Cosforums is not blocked, and I never had any reason to block it. This happened all of a sudden around the exact end of August, near as I can tell, because it's been about two weeks since I've been notified of an Owl.

Nothing changed on my part, and I'm on a brand new computer that has been working fine with AOL, and I get notifications from Harry Potter Network and Livejournal too. Hmmmm. :grumble:

Livejournal is not a vBulletin forum though, I'm not sure about HPN as I'm not a member there ~ so you would get Livejournal updates.

From what I've understood from Ali we've not changed anything on our side and from what you're saying you've not changed anything your side which would make me believe it's your ISP.

Livejournal is not a vBulletin forum though, I'm not sure about HPN as I'm not a member there ~ so you would get Livejournal updates.

From what I've understood from Ali we've not changed anything on our side and from what you're saying you've not changed anything your side which would make me believe it's your ISP.
Well, sure, ok, if you say so! :) I'll let you know when I find the answer.

Do definitely :agree: best of luck trying to get it sorted out.

Do definitely :agree: best of luck trying to get it sorted out.
I think for the time being, I'll just enjoy my empty mailbox. :lol: :rotfl:

Jessica suggested that I place this question in here so here we go .

I was just wondering if the birthday list will be coming back ?

Thanks

twins:p

Hello I posted this in the old Technical Issues Thread but I never saw an answer to it . I was hopeing I could get one now ?

Thanks

twins:p

This may just be a problem with my computer, but I thought I'd flag it up anyway. One of the posts I submitted yesterday has completely disappeared from the thread it was in, but I haven't received any owls about it so I can't work out what might have happened. Help!

I don't know what would cause this, and it will probably be some Very Obvious Thing To Figure Out Myself, but here goes... I was looking at some of my threads and wanted to update them. Problem is, there was no way to do this, because, despite the fact that I was signed in and all (I accessed the thread through my subscriptions), it said I could not reply, could not post, all that good stuff. There was not even a field to do it. But the thread was not locked. Mysterious...

Which forum was it in?? Because in some, like The Daily Prophet, and non-Feedback threads in F&B, only the person who created the thread, or a mod can reply in it. That's the only thing I can think of. If it was somewhere besides that, I'm out.

Some threads are now read-only in the archives. It's possible that the thread in question was one of those threads.
Regarding the issue in post 23, I'm not that technically inclined, so I'm not the one to help here, sorry :).

The post was submitted to Legilimency Studies in The Stone at about 6pm yesterday. I'm pretty sure I saw the finished post as part of the thread once I'd typed it, but I looked again this morning and it was gone. Mysterious...

The post was submitted to Legilimency Studies in The Stone at about 6pm yesterday. I'm pretty sure I saw the finished post as part of the thread once I'd typed it, but I looked again this morning and it was gone. Mysterious...

One of your posts was deleted by staff. You can owl any member of staff to ask why, I'd rather not discuss private matters in a public area.

Sometimes I can't put smileys in my posts. The smiley box isn't even there!

What's happening?

Sometimes I can't put smileys in my posts. The smiley box isn't even there!

What's happening?
Make sure you don't have the "disable smilies in text" option checked. As for the smily box, I'm not really sure what would cause that not to show up, unless you have a pop-up blocker that might be preventing it from showing up when you hit the "more" link.

Some threads are now read-only in the archives. It's possible that the thread in question was one of those threads.

That must be it -- because I can still read it, but not reply to it. It was *sniffle* such a good thread, too....

That must be it -- because I can still read it, but not reply to it. It was *sniffle* such a good thread, too....Owl me the link to it. :)

That must be it -- because I can still read it, but not reply to it. It was *sniffle* such a good thread, too....

Don't complain! At least your thread's still there for you and other people to read. One of mine - my most successful one too! - got deleted, I can't even go back and read the good parts. :grumble:

The subject did get picked up again, but it's not the same thing. :(

Don't complain! At least your thread's still there for you and other people to read. One of mine - my most successful one too! - got deleted, I can't even go back and read the good parts. :grumble:

The subject did get picked up again, but it's not the same thing. :(

I think that you will find that everyone gets threads deleted now and then the Mods here are very good at keeping the Boards from getting cluttered up with duplicate threads . Sometimes in the past when there was a book release the mods pruned the boards to keep the server from bogging down .
I hope that helped ?

twins:p

Maybe it's time to get back on topic now.

So, technical questions anyone?

Sometimes I can't put smileys in my posts. The smiley box isn't even there!

What's happening?
You might also be posting in Quick Reply, rather than the Advanced Post.

You might also be posting in Quick Reply, rather than the Advanced Post.

It seems to me that even in Quick Reply you can post smilies. The smilie board might not be there, but you can still make a smilie appear by typing its name in between colons. Or a semi-colon and a close parenthesis for "wink", a colon and a close parenthesis for "smile", etc.

You got me curious, let me try a quick reply after I post this. It will appear just under this, not in a separate post, but this is where my Advanced Post ends. :)

Testing smilies in Quick Reply: :) ;) :lol: :no: :grumble:

Second quick reply: It worked! :tu:

This may just be a problem with my computer, but I thought I'd flag it up anyway. One of the posts I submitted yesterday has completely disappeared from the thread it was in, but I haven't received any owls about it so I can't work out what might have happened. Help!

That happened to me too. Sometimes it happens because you're off-topic or have used some strong words. Sometimes it happens for no reason I, a lowly second-year, can figure out. There is no warning by owl in those cases, I believe.

There's no warning when a whole thread that you started is deleted either, for that matter.

I remember there being a question about why the time is always off. But I don't remember if it was answered. I think it's about 10 minutes off now. It's been getting progessively more off lately. Just thought I would put that out there.

I remember there being a question about why the time is always off. But I don't remember if it was answered. I think it's about 10 minutes off now. It's been getting progessively more off lately. Just thought I would put that out there.
Same here. At least it's easier to figure out what time it's supposed to be when it's 10 off rather than 7.

I remember there being a question about why the time is always off. But I don't remember if it was answered. I think it's about 10 minutes off now. It's been getting progessively more off lately. Just thought I would put that out there.


I have noticed this too its about 11 minutes behind for me now and it seems to be getting longer every week .

twins:p

I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but how do you do a strikeout tag? You know, the one that creates a line through the text? I know it is possible in BBC Code (fourth example) (http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=57), but it is not working on this forum.

It's not included in the working tags on this forum. :)

Help! All threads (but not Magical Me or the main page) are stretched to about twice the width of my (1024 pixel) screen! I checked in IE7, and it's OK there, but in Firefox it's really messed up. Is anyone else having this issue? Images keep getting switched around too, which has happened several times before, for example, random avatars and sig pics in place of smilies! But this is the first time I've had screen width issues.

Ah - I think perhaps it's the image-switching that is stretching the layout!
Screencap:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/thereal_anabel/imageswitchingissues.jpg

I keep having trouble opening pages and threads on CoS today it takes so long that my comp times out and says it cannot open thread or page . Does anyone know why the site is so slow today ? its not happening at any other site that I go to .
Is anyone else having this trouble ??

twins:p

Is anyone else having this trouble ??
Yes I am having the same trouble. I think others are too. I am not sure why though :shrug:

Yes I am having the same trouble. I think others are too. I am not sure why though :shrug:

I'm having the same issue too :shrug: -- but I have gotten "the page cannot be displayed" - cannot find server error due to this problem. Not sure why either though, hopefully whatever is going on will be fixed soon enough though. I just ran into that error again :p -- this is getting old fast! No offense, I'm just getting tired of seeing the error over and over again :lol:.

I'm having the same issues as the above posters as well...it's been going on since maybe 3 EST, for me.

I keep having trouble opening pages and threads on CoS today it takes so long that my comp times out and says it cannot open thread or page . Does anyone know why the site is so slow today ? its not happening at any other site that I go to .
Is anyone else having this trouble ??

twins:p

Ditto...

I have a similar problem. When I try to open a page, very often the page finishes loading and is just white. No error messages or anything. Refreshing usually brings the page up although occasionally I have to refresh the page twice....

Admins-what's happening? Everyone's computers are having a ton of trouble getting around on this site. It took my about six or seven tries just to get to this page. Sometimes, it takes a reeeeally long time, and says "Server 404 not found," that type of stuff. I can see everyone else is having this problem as well. What's happening, and how do we fix it?

We're aware of the problem. Hopefully the techies will get it straightened out soon :)

The techies saved the day and the issue should now be fixed.

The techies saved the day and the issue should now be fixed.

That's great :D woohoo! thanks techies!

The techies saved the day and the issue should now be fixed.

Kewl. What was wrong?

That's great :D woohoo! thanks techies!

Those pics of your (?) dogs are so cool. The one looks so much like mine. He was a great pyranees and cream colored lab mix.

TTFN

Thanks for getting everything back to normal :clap:

Thanks for getting everything back to normal :) :clap:!!

I have been getting the page cannot be displayed, but now i'm not, now i have to refresh the page because none of the stuff will turn up, only the background and the picture at the top.

Thanks for getting the page cannot be displayed thing :clap:, it is way harder to get rid of.

Yay for Admins!

The techies saved the day and the issue should now be fixed.

I'm still having fits. I can get to the forums, but the minute I try to post it's white server errors up the wazoo.

This post took four attempts over 30 minutes.

I'm still having fits. I can get to the forums, but the minute I tried to post it's white server errors up the wazoo.

Same here, it was working just fine earlier, but a couple of minutes ago -- I got a white server error :grumble:.

I'm still having fits. I can get to the forums, but the minute I tried to post it's white server errors up the wazoo.

I thought the problem was fixed at first. I had no trouble at all posting earlier today, but a few minutes ago it started bothering me again. I think we're having the same problem here agian, Purplehawk.

Yep, it seems the issues are back (it at least took me ages to post these bits). Waiting for the tech admins to rescue us again... :)

Yeah, same thing for me. I've owled the techies again for help.

I have a glass and stainless desk, so someone else will have to knock on wood for me, but... things are going nicely now.

I have a glass and stainless desk, so someone else will have to knock on wood for me, but... things are going nicely now.

*knocks on wood for you :)* It's going better for me as well, hopefully the errors won't show up again.

That's the problem though, they come and go :lol:
Lets think positive! :tu:

Thanks techies! :D

I thought the problem was fixed at first. I had no trouble at all posting earlier today, but a few minutes ago it started bothering me again. I think we're having the same problem here agian, Purplehawk.

Same here. I spent over an hour, on and off, and I don't know which of my posts got through and which didn't, because all I get is a blank page with a little moving circle saying "loading" and going on and on forever... This is like a bottle thrown out on the sea, hoping to reach shore... In the meanwhile, I give up... :(

Same here :sad:

I'm still good to go.

What the heck is going on? :huh:

I'm still good to go.

What the heck is going on? :huh:

No idea -- when this started happening on my end yesterday, it was around 3pm, and when it happened today it was around 4pm... rather weird.

Hopefully it'll be fixed soon enough.

Thank gosh, I haven't run into as many errors as I was yesterday though -- it was driving me nuts :lol:.

Purplehawk, FluerduJardin/mal, and Fawkesfan- my problem's finally stopped. I'm hoping your's have too? I'm having no trouble posting now. Admins- If you fixed it, good job!

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this- A couple days ago, the total post amount was about 999,900. The next time I came on, it was down to about 998,000. This doesn't really matter, it's just funny that post counts can't go over a million. :lol:

I have a glass and stainless desk, so someone else will have to knock on wood for me, but... things are going nicely now.

Does particle board work? ;) Uhm, I don't have any problems. But, I've only just popped back in since much earlier today.

TTFN

Seems to be working well for me now.

*Thanks techies and provides an offering of milk and cookies.*

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this- A couple days ago, the total post amount was about 999,900. The next time I came on, it was down to about 998,000. This doesn't really matter, it's just funny that post counts can't go over a million. :lol:
Posts routinely get erased. They are usually old posts. They may have done that in an attempt to fix some of the recent problems, although that is just a guess.

Purplehawk, FluerduJardin/mal, and Fawkesfan- my problem's finally stopped. I'm hoping your's have too? I'm having no trouble posting now. Admins- If you fixed it, good job!

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this- A couple days ago, the total post amount was about 999,900. The next time I came on, it was down to about 998,000. This doesn't really matter, it's just funny that post counts can't go over a million. :lol:

Yes, I seem to be OK now, thanks, Deathly. At least my two last posts went through without my having to try several times then give up out of frustration. For me the problem happened yesterday late morning-early afternoon - I was busy and I gave up pretty quickly. Today, it started OK then I ran into the same problem again.

I don't know whether this problem is related, but in the "Novella" forum, where post count is off and you are the only one who can respond to yourself - which means that the double-post rule doesn't apply, you're allowed to post right after yourself, since no one else but an admin can - I got my posts "merged" like in the "regular" forums. Very strange (and frustrating!) :grumble:

Oh that's very interesting, Deathly, about the total post amount. Do you think that is what caused the problem? Like all those we expected for Y2K but never happened? Are we going to run into the same problem when we get up near 1 million again? http://www.avenueviet.com/forums/images/smiles/confused.gif

Anyway - for the time being things seem to be back to normal - Thanks, techies!! :tu:

Thank you techies! I give you chocolate in gratitude! :D

i think the problem has gone away for me too. Thanks techies! :clap:

Yea, thanks again techies *hands you all a giant cookie :)*! :clap:

Yay! We can post with no problems! Let us now hope that thisproblem is defeated, and shall never arise again! Hooray, techies! For this heroic deed, I give you a lifetime's supply of fresh baked cookies! *sniffs the aroma in* Oh, those are too good, I'll have to eat some myself.

Yep, the technical wizards of CoS did a few adjustments. I heard Ali banging the server with a hammer screaming "WORK DAMNIT!! WORK!!!" Kizz was within seconds of pulling his 9mm Sig-Sauer out of his workbag and pumping the server full of lead, when it suddenly started working.

You see people. Intimidation. It's like Al Capone said: "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

Christmas List for Ali and Kizz:

1. Bigger hammer
2. More 9mm ammunition
3. BLU109 (armor piercing/deep penetrating) or MK82 (2K bomb) - guaranteed to solve all your future server problems. :D

Yep, the technical wizards of CoS did a few adjustments. I heard Ali banging the server with a hammer screaming "WORK DAMNIT!! WORK!!!" Kizz was within seconds of pulling his 9mm Sig-Sauer out of his workbag and pumping the server full of lead, when it suddenly started working.

You see people. Intimidation. It's like Al Capone said: "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."


:lol: I'm glad they got it working anyway. I couldn't get here at all yesterday. And I think I'll be very careful not to upset Kizz!

Oh that's very interesting, Deathly, about the total post amount. Do you think that is what caused the problem? Like all those we expected for Y2K but never happened? Are we going to run into the same problem when we get up near 1 million again?

I seem to remember we went over a million a few months ago and there weren't any problems, although maybe I'm thinking of something else

We go over the million mark every now and then, before some post-destructive admin decides that we cannot have excess posts on CoS Forums. I deleted ten threads myself the other day and saw my post count drop 4,000. I thought "I'm havin' none of that tomfoolery," and re-instated the threads and got my post count back.

Of course I once deleted the entire forums and saw my post count drop to 0... But that's a story for another day, like after I die.

We go over the million mark every now and then, before some post-destructive admin decides that we cannot have excess posts on CoS Forums. I deleted ten threads myself the other day and saw my post count drop 4,000. I thought "I'm havin' none of that tomfoolery," and re-instated the threads and got my post count back.

Of course I once deleted the entire forums and saw my post count drop to 0... But that's a story for another day, like after I die.

:rotfl: *wonders which 10 threads Morgoth might have had 4,000 posts in*

Of course I once deleted the entire forums and saw my post count drop to 0... But that's a story for another day, like after I die

Oops! :whistle:

wow, i have had no problems at all since the problem was fixed. *hands techies giant cookies*

Cookies are nice but after the work those two did I think they need a nice cold Beer and a big Pizza ! :lol:

Cookies are nice but after the work those two did I think they need a nice cold Beer and a big Pizza ! :lol:
I agree!!!! Thank you so much!! You should have seen the panicking when I couldn't get on. Then I played 3D mazes for a few hours and went to sleep. And now all is well. Thanks again!!!! :D

I hate to spoil the party but how about getting back to posting comments on technical issues? Our techies have limited time and they probably appreciate finding posts addressing urgent problems quickly. :)

Sorry Moriath. My bad! :yuhup:

Back on topic then.

This isn't a major problem and doesnt really do much, but the top picture that is a link to the main page hasn't been appearing. Any ideas why?

This isn't a major problem and doesnt really do much, but the top picture that is a link to the main page hasn't been appearing. Any ideas why?

I just flipped through all the skins and it was appearing OK on each of them in my browser (Internet Explorer). Other than that, can't help you.

its gone away, i think.

I don't mean to be a nuisance, its probably just my computer, but for some reason, i have to refresh a lot because the only thing that turns up is the picture on top, and the bottom doesnt turn up.

I don't mean to be a nuisance, its probably just my computer, but for some reason, i have to refresh a lot because the only thing that turns up is the picture on top, and the bottom doesnt turn up.
Which browser do you use? I find that Firefox occasionally decides not to display a particular picture, although I have no idea why - it might be one of the add-ons interfering.

i use internet explorer version 7 i think. I have firefox, but i dont use it

i use internet explorer version 7 i think. I have firefox, but i dont use itHave you tried Firefox to see if the missing image shows up then?

Deleting your Temporary Internet Files (also known as clearing your cache) might help too.

Deleting your Temporary Internet Files (also known as clearing your cache) might help too.

it works on firefox, but i dont like using it, it just bothers me a lot.

I'm having a problem logging out right now. When I go to the top bar and click "Log Out" a message pops up saying "are you sure you want to log out?" I click OK, but I'm still logged on! I'm brought to a page that says "your cookies are cleared." What does that mean? How do I log out?

I'm having a problem logging out right now. When I go to the top bar and click "Log Out" a message pops up saying "are you sure you want to log out?" I click OK, but I'm still logged on! I'm brought to a page that says "your cookies are cleared." What does that mean? How do I log out?

I get that screen as well when I go to log out. It's normal, when logging out on COS.

Hope this helped you out :).

Okay. But I still don't understand how I can log out completely so I'm a Visitor.

Okay. But I still don't understand how I can log out completely so I'm a Visitor.

Hmm -- well usually once you log out, and it says that the 'cookies are cleared', then you should show up as a visitor.

At least that's what happens when I go and log out.

After you recieve the message about your cookies being cleared, what do you click on? I've tried everything, and it still says "Good Evening/Afternoon, deathly721." :hmm:

After you recieve the message about your cookies being cleared, what do you click on? I've tried everything, and it still says "Good Evening/Afternoon, deathly721." :hmm:
Hmm, that is weird :hmm:... I haven't had that happen to me before whenever I've logged off.

What I'm asking here is: what do you click on when you get to the "cookies are cleared" page?

What I'm asking here is: what do you click on when you get to the "cookies are cleared" page?

Oh, I see -- I usually just close the web page. But for what you're going through, it sounds like there may be a login cookie that didn't get deleted or something. I could be wrong about it though.

By the way, just out of curiosity, what kind of browser are you using?

I'm using IE 6 and I'm having no problems logging out on it.

No, I think you're right. I tried doing what you said, and I was still logged on. I think one of my cookies is not working.

No, I think you're right. I tried doing what you said, and I was still logged on. I think one of my cookies is not working.

Hmm -- I see, well at least we may have narrowed the problem down to something. Hopefully a staff member can help you out somemore with this problem.

I hope that it gets straightened out soon. I'd hate to be having the same problem myself.

I'm having a problem logging out right now. When I go to the top bar and click "Log Out" a message pops up saying "are you sure you want to log out?" I click OK, but I'm still logged on! I'm brought to a page that says "your cookies are cleared." What does that mean? How do I log out?

In my experience, "your cookies are cleared" means that you are logged out. It happens on the CosForums(Lite) skin, not on some others (Deathly Hallows UK for ex, doesn't do that), don't ask me why.

I had the same problem as you, even worse: I tried to log out, clicked on "Ok", but the whole darn thing froze, the browser shut down, and when I turned it back on, I was still logged on. It drove me nuts. http://www.avenueviet.com/forums/images/smiles/bowl.gif

I called on my brother, who's a better geek than me, and he confessed himself defeated. This was on Internet Explorer. I've used Mozilla Firefox from then on and haven't had that problem again. Knock on wood. http://www.avenueviet.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_mrgreen.gif

Oops sorry - Hadn't read all the posts after the one I responded to. Have you tried changing browsers? It worked for me. If not, try disconnecting the modem completely and reconnecting it, or rebooting the whole sytem, cable modem included.

Of course, after having said that, I bet I won't be able to log out when I try to next time. ;)

If all does not help to get back to visitor status, clear cookies and cache manually. Then you should be logged out completely.

For IE there must be something like 'Extras - Internetoptions'. Hope this helps. :)

For IE, at the top of the screen
Tools--->Internet Options--->delete files and delete cookies.
That should do it. http://www.kurts-smilies.de/crash2.gif

For IE, at the top of the screen
Tools--->Internet Options--->delete files and delete cookies.
Ah, thanks! I had no English IE at hand and always seem to forget what the exact title of the menu is.

Ok, I did what you said, midnightsfire, and the problem should be fixed now. Thanks all! :tu:

Where did the forums go just now?

Where did the forums go just now?

Hmm -- that's weird, the forums look normal on my end. What happened?

After you receive the message about your cookies being cleared, what do you click on? I've tried everything, and it still says "Good Evening/Afternoon, deathly721." :hmm:

Funny, I have the opposite problem. I get logged out all the time. I post a message, go back to my e-mailbox to see what other responses I have, come back and show up as a guest. Even if I spend too long a time typing a post, once I'm finished I get the message "You are not logged in. Please log in to post your message." Then I log in and get "You may proceed now." (or words to that effect.)

Also, how do I get the "skin" I want (CoSForums [Lite]) to come up every time I log on? For some reason, when I re-open CosForums, I find myself on another skin with contrasting colors I find difficult to read. I don't seem to be able to make CoSForum [Lite] to stay on as the default skin.

Funny, I have the opposite problem. I get logged out all the time. I post a message, go back to my e-mailbox to see what other responses I have, come back and show up as a guest. Even if I spend too long a time typing a post, once I'm finished I get the message "You are not logged in. Please log in to post your message." Then I log in and get "You may proceed now." (or words to that effect.)When you log in, make sure you've clicked on "remember me"


Also, how do I get the "skin" I want (CoSForums [Lite]) to come up every time I log on? For some reason, when I re-open CosForums, I find myself on another skin with contrasting colors I find difficult to read. I don't seem to be able to make CoSForum [Lite] to stay on as the default skin. Go to "magical me" --> edit options and scroll down to near the bottom, where you'll see a place to choose the skin that you want. Click on "save changes" at the bottom of the page, and the skin should be saved whenever you log in.

Fleur are you on IE or Firefox. I find no matter how many sites I check remember me with IE it still doesn't bother :lol:

I just had one heck of a weird error on the forums. I was just looking at a page, when all of a sudden, a whole lot of webpages came up. Just of this site -- not adware or something.

Ran a Spybot: S&D scan on my computer and it didn't spot any problems. So I have no idea what it could be.

Anyone else having a similar problem?

Is there a way to disable smiles in mysig? I'm trying to post a countdown but cant due to there being a : D in the code which changes to :D making the code invalad and my cowntown not work.

Does it work when you include your text with noparse tags? They usually disable codes.

[*noparse] :D [/noparse]

becomes
:D

without the star.

I just have not so much of a clue about codes usually, so this might not work. What about a small 'd' as an alternative? :d

I'll try it

well it worked in the sence that the smile did not show but the code does not work. I think It may be a HTML thing wich does not work on here. oh well.

I think It may be a HTML thing wich does not work on here. oh well.

Yes, if it's a countdown thing I'd probably say that it won't work on here. I've tried to put up countdowns before, using HTML, and it's never worked for me :)

Yes, html is disabled and actually not permitted in signatures on CoS. Sorry, I missed that part. For reference (http://www.cosforums.com/showthread.php?t=22990). :)

I had problems with thread notifications, I've always had all threads I post in set to 'instant email notification' for new replies, but this stopped happening around the time Deathly Hallows was released. I totally understand that it might have been switched off to conserve bandwidth and server resources but now I'm still having trouble with it - Every so often a thread will notify me of replies, and other times it doesn't. Really strange!

I had problems with thread notifications, I've always had all threads I post in set to 'instant email notification' for new replies, but this stopped happening around the time Deathly Hallows was released. I totally understand that it might have been switched off to conserve bandwidth and server resources but now I'm still having trouble with it - Every so often a thread will notify me of replies, and other times it doesn't. Really strange!

Yes, I have the same problem. But I thought it was my e-mail system, which sometimes "vanishes" messages into cyberspace. Because sometimes I log in and see "10 new messages", and when I open it, there's only two or three. :grumble:

But very often I don't get notifications for responses, even on threads that I've started (though I don't think it makes a difference whether you're the thread-starter or not) - On the latest one, for example, I only got one notification, but when I came in, there were a dozen responses. Very strange indeed. :hmm:

I think that on threads that you subcribe to on the email notification that you get it says that there maybe more posts but you will not receive communication of them as you need to log in...or something to that affect.

There may also be other replies, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again.

All the best,Chamber of Secrets

Yes, I have the same problem. But I thought it was my e-mail system, which sometimes "vanishes" messages into cyberspace. Because sometimes I log in and see "10 new messages", and when I open it, there's only two or three. :grumble:

But very often I don't get notifications for responses, even on threads that I've started (though I don't think it makes a difference whether you're the thread-starter or not) - On the latest one, for example, I only got one notification, but when I came in, there were a dozen responses. Very strange indeed. :hmm:

Ah yeah, the system does only send out 1 notification for a reply, otherwise you could end up with 10 or 20 notifications!

I think that on threads that you subcribe to on the email notification that you get it says that there maybe more posts but you will not receive communication of them as you need to log in...or something to that affect.

There may also be other replies, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again.

All the best,Chamber of Secrets

Indeed it does, but my point is, it works very inconsistently. I sometimes get, at one point, multiple notifications, one after the other, sent a few minutes apart, about the same thread, and just one about another thread where there are just as many responses. :hmm:

In fact I should go and unsubscribe to some of those threads which have been worked down to the bone and on which response notifications keep coming in. :)

Ah yeah, the system does only send out 1 notification for a reply, otherwise you could end up with 10 or 20 notifications!
Fact is, I do get sometimes up to 5 notifications in a row for the same thread. :lol: And on the other hand, none or just one for others where there are multiple responses that came in after I did log back in. I can't make out the logic of it. But it's actually not very important, just kind of a curiosity (the vagaries of the sites' workings - I actually have the same kind of problems on my own chat site.) :shrug:

how do I log out? I clicked the log out link at the top of the page, and i says that i did, but when i go back to the index, it logs me back in. I got rid of the cookies too, and that didnt work.

Did you untick 'remember me'?

let me try

wait, how do i get rid of remember me?

wait, how do i get rid of remember me?Just as Alastor said, untick it. :)

never mind. somehow, i can logout using firefox and not with internet explorer. i wanted to see the christmas layout, but it wont work.

oh never mind, it works

That's likely an IE issue then. :yuhup:

Clearing the cache (just next to cookies) might help.

oh never mind, it works, great christmas layout by the way

You might already know this, but when you click "log out", the word box says "undefined". It's not a big deal, but I just I'd let you know. :)

http://cosforums.com/showthread.php?t=89540&page=26&highlight=Harry+Potter+Dreams

I can't reply to this thread... is it closed and I didn't see the closed mark? Or is it a dead thread? Do we need a new one? It just won't let me reply.

Its in the archive, that's why you can't reply.

I don't see an actual version, if you want to feel free to open a new version. :)

Its in the archive, that's why you can't reply.

I don't see an actual version, if you want to feel free to open a new version. :)

AHA! That is why...

And yes, I will make a new version.

I have started TWO threads on this site, One in Muggle Studies and on in The Stone, and BOTH of them have some how ended up in Quidditch Pitch. I do not know how and according to a mod my song thread had shown no signs of being moved. My other thread is "Vernonless life. Better for harry?" (http://http://cosforums.com/showthread.php?t=114357)

How are my threads ending up in Qudditch Pitch WITHOUT being moved?

Quidditch Pitch is for games as well as what we call Just-for-fun threads. We will occasionally move threads based on a What If premise to the Quidditch Pitch which is what happened in this case.

oooooooooooook. but waht about the other thread that as NOT moved according to a MOD?

I looked. It was moved. It was an honest mistake by the Mod who told you that :)

ok then why was it locked with the reason of "It's in the wrong thread?"

There are two threads started by you in the Quidditch Pitch. Neither is locked. Both are of category What If and were therefore moved from the Cloak to the QP as Jessica said. One of those had earlier been moved to the Cloak from somewhere.

I did not find any song thread started by you. Closed threads are deleted after 24 hours.

Yeah my thread was closed like a week ago

But I'll keep in mind that "What If" Threads go in QP for now on

EDIT: ummm help I can't get the links in my siggy to work.

So, I think my post count somehow was messed up. I can't be completely certain but it used to be in the 400's but it went back down to the 300's. Is that possible? And if so (and it happened), can it be fixed?

Often times when old threads are deleted, post count goes down since everything in those threads is now gone. It happens to everyone, and is most likely what happened to you.

I don't know whether this counts as a technical issue but since my last visit yesterday, my post count has gone down 4 or 5 posts. I can't remember what those posts that disappeared were about, or in which thread, but I don't recall having posted anything offensive, or having had a heated argument with anybody. Actually I'm sure I didn't. Where did my posts go? Why were they zapped? :hmm:

Sometimes older posts just get lost when older threads get pruned to safe server space. You've done nothing wrong then and it happens to every member. :)

I don't know whether this counts as a technical issue but since my last visit yesterday, my post count has gone down 4 or 5 posts. I can't remember what those posts that disappeared were about, or in which thread, but I don't recall having posted anything offensive, or having had a heated argument with anybody. Actually I'm sure I didn't. Where did my posts go? Why were they zapped? :hmm:

M_M, you're complaining about 4 or 5 posts? NINE of mine have disappeared overnight (in less than 12 hours in fact!) :grumble: So I really sympathize. :)

Gertie, thanks for the explanation. :)

But actually this post is not about that, but about post and owl notifications. I have had no notification whatsoever since about 2 a.m. last night (American EST) whereas I had half a dozen responses to threads and, two owls, one of which is all-important. If I hadn't logged in (and sometimes I don't when I don't see any response or owl notification) I wouldn't have known one piece of very significant news!

Techies, do you think it's a problem with my e-mail system, or with CoS notification system? :hmm: If it's from your end, I'd be very grateful if you could fix it, thanks. :)

I've had this problem with email addresses, where initially I thought it was CoS causing the problem, but it's turned out to be the ISP or email provider treating CoS as a spam site and blocking emails getting through.

There's a way around this by swapping your email address around to a new one or amending any automated spam lists to allow for emails from CoS Forums.

Be warned, you may find by swapping emails around you are completely blocked as you have to verify your email and your new provider has a spam list as well. If that happens, contact an administrator or set up a second dummy account and let us know. FYI: The dummy account would be deleted once your main account was fixed.

But actually this post is not about that, but about post and owl notifications. I have had no notification whatsoever since about 2 a.m. last night (American EST)

Funny, same with me. I used to have dozens of notifications a day, I haven't had a single one since January 5th. FleurdJ, I know you and I both use Yahoo. It worked fine before, why would it suddenly stop delivering mail from CoS? No messages in the Deleted (as spam) folders either. Very strange.

Morgoth, thanks for the tip, but why would an ISP or email system suddenly treat one address as spam when it didn't before? CoS is definitely not on my spam list. I'll try switching e-mail addresses. I'm not sure how to set up a dummy account, though. :hmm:

Morgoth, thanks for the tip, but why would an ISP or email system suddenly treat one address as spam when it didn't before? CoS is definitely not on my spam list. I'll try switching e-mail addresses. I'm not sure how to set up a dummy account, though.

I don't know. It's happened to a few people on here though. Once they changed email addresses they found new notifications occurred and have had no problems since. That's not to say CoS doesn't have a bug in the system, but we've found nothing to indicate such to date, so I'm at a loss to explain it otherwise.

What I meant was re-register on CoS with a new account, owl an Admin, explain the situation and we'll do a manual authorise on your account. Once that's fixed, we delete the second account. Normally second accounts wouldn't be permitted, but as this is an ongoing problem, it would be silly to prevent people from using this method to try and resolve a problem with their account.

It worked fine before, why would it suddenly stop delivering mail from CoS?
I haven't had this problem specifically with CoS, but I've previously had problems with email providers updating their spam lists to include addresses that they used to let through without problems. One was so overzealous it blocked emails I sent to myself (backing up files)! You ought to be able to add individual addresses to your "permitted" list.

Funny, same with me. I used to have dozens of notifications a day, I haven't had a single one since January 5th. FleurdJ, I know you and I both use Yahoo. It worked fine before, why would it suddenly stop delivering mail from CoS? No messages in the Deleted (as spam) folders either. Very strange.

[...]why would an ISP or email system suddenly treat one address as spam when it didn't before?

I think I solved the mystery, at least for Muggle_Magic and me, and other members who use Yahoo. I don't know why Yahoo all of a sudden decided that CoS Forums was a spammer, but that's what happened. :shrug:

M_M, the solution is to go into "Options", then from there to "Dealing with Spams" (or words to that effect). I saw that I had checked the box "Delete all spams immediately". You must have done the same. Uncheck that, and check the box "Place spams in Spam/Bulk Folder" (depending on the Yahoo version you have, that folder is called either "Spam" or "Bulk").

About half an hour after I did that, 6 notifications from CoS showed up in my Spam folder. I marked them "Not Spam" and moved them to my Inbox, et voilà! :lol:

It seems that to combat the problem of spam, many legitimate sites are now being penalised as a result. Good work on the solution guys. :tu:

M_M, the solution is to go into "Options", then from there to "Dealing with Spams" (or words to that effect). I saw that I had checked the box "Delete all spams immediately". You must have done the same. Uncheck that, and check the box "Place spams in Spam/Bulk Folder" (depending on the Yahoo version you have, that folder is called either "Spam" or "Bulk").


Right on all counts, FleurdJ! :clap:

I had indeed checked the "Delete Spams immediately without showing" box. I followed your instruction and it worked! :rockon:

Thank you, Fleur and Anabel. :tu:

M_M, you're complaining about 4 or 5 posts? NINE of mine have disappeared overnight (in less than 12 hours in fact!) So I really sympathize.
Yeah, last week I lost about 100 to 150 of my posts. I am definitely a little bummed.

See here (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=4894270&postcount=470). :)

Thank you, Fleur and Anabel.

You're welcome! :D

Yeah, last week I lost about 100 to 150 of my posts. I am definitely a little bummed.

I don't blame you! :no: If I lost 150 posts, I'd find myself back in First Year!! :(

Where did my signature go? I didn't edit it, or change it, or even think about it, but in one post it isn't there. Here (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=4895613&postcount=130)

Where did my signature go? I didn't edit it, or change it, or even think about it, but in one post it isn't there. Here (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=4895613&postcount=130)
The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. In one post it was gone, a few minutes later I posted again and it was back.

Could you have accidentally unchecked the box that says Show your signature?

Could you have accidentally unchecked the box that says Show your signature?
No. It only happened in one post, and I hadn't been near my profile. Oh and I just checked the individual post, and it shows my signature was definitely checked.

Today, I recieved an owl from another member and tried to respond. This message came up:

$user[username] has chosen not to receive Owls or may not be allowed to receive Owls. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her.

What do I do?

It may be that the person you are trying to owl has 50 owls already. That is the max, so until they delete some owls, they cannot recieve/send any. If this is the case, there's nothing you can do until they delete some.

You can allow other members to send you email messages.
Receive Email from Other Members They probably have their options set to not receive email from other members. My advice would be to put a note in a thread you know they read often. Or perhaps a nice mod would send an owl to them if you ask nicely (and the person doesn't also have "Receive Email from Administrators" as unchecked).

I was wondering if anyone alse was having trouble with the site today ? the site seems to be running very slow for me today it takes minutes for a post to go through for me . I've tried refreshing the page and that takes over 1 min to happen.

twins:p

I was wondering if anyone alse was having trouble with the site today ? the site seems to be running very slow for me today it takes minutes for a post to go through for me . I've tried refreshing the page and that takes over 1 min to happen.

twins:p

You're not the only one - I had trouble logging in earlier. But I can't tell you anything else because I don't know why I had trouble logging in either.

Yes, I was also experiencing some problems earlier. It was taking very long for a post to show up after I submitted, or if I tried to Edit it. And at one point when I refreshed a page, it went away completely and I got the "Cannot display..." message. I had to go to mugglenet and get back in through there. I'm not sure what is causing it either, though. Perhaps it's time to prune old threads and free up some space.

Yes, I was also experiencing some problems earlier. It was taking very long for a post to show up after I submitted, or if I tried to Edit it. And at one point when I refreshed a page, it went away completely and I got the "Cannot display..." message. I had to go to mugglenet and get back in through there. I'm not sure what is causing it either, though. Perhaps it's time to prune old threads and free up some space.
I had to go in through Mugglenet to get in one time too. Another time even that wouldn't work. I am glad to know that it isn't just me, but there does seem to be a problem tonight.

I had the same issue earlier, it took me around 3 tries just to be able to log on. I couldn't get on through the favorites section on my browser. I kept on getting a white screen :p. As for going through a search engine, it took me 2 tries just to get in :rolleyes:.

I'm not having any problems now, anyway.

I'm not having any now as well. That's good :).

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Edit:
Scratch that, it was running slowly late this afternoon, had a heckuva time trying to log in again. Just was able to do so now and it's still running rather slow.

I suppose that this is a technical problem...for the past couple days the laughing smiley (the "Lol" one) has not been showing up on my computer...just a little box with a dot in the middle (not an x).

I suppose that this is a technical problem...for the past couple days the laughing smiley (the "Lol" one) has not been showing up on my computer...just a little box with a dot in the middle (not an x).It probably has something to do with your internet browser settings. I didn't know until my husband bought a new computer that all those little smilies moved. I had the animation setting turned off in my internet options. Your problem may also have something to do with your computer settings, although I wouldn't know which one it would be.

I suppose that this is a technical problem...for the past couple days the laughing smiley (the "Lol" one) has not been showing up on my computer...just a little box with a dot in the middle (not an x).

Just a silly thought are you typing it as :Lol: or :lol*: without the * ? because the smilies work in lower case only .
I hope that helps.

twins:p

During the last twenty minutes, I wasn't able to open the site. It was no general problem with the provider or my computer though because I had no problems with other sites. I thought perhaps you would like to know about this? :)

That just happened to me, too. It happened yesterday also, at about the same time. :hmm:

We're being hit by a ritual curse that strikes at midnight GMT every day. Dunno why other than Dark Forces and possibly three of Morgoth's ex-wives.

And it's obviously midnight GMT all the time. With very short pauses.

My post count seems a bit off... the past couple of posts I made in the last week and today it stays on 631.

Reasons could be that threads you posted in earlier got pruned (although there was no major pruning lately this sometimes happens) or that you posted in sections like the Writing on the wall where the post count is off. :)

I hate to do this, but I'm starting my career as a Hogsmeade student with a complaint: I did not get notification of two owls, one by Morgoth who gave me the good news, and one from FleurduJardin who congratulated me. Thank you both :) but - why did my e-mail system Vanish the owl notifications when I got thread responses notification up until an hour or so ago? :hmm:

Fleur, have you had this problem?

I hate to do this, but I'm starting my career as a Hogsmeade student with a complaint: I did not get notification of two owls, one by Morgoth who gave me the good news, and one from FleurduJardin who congratulated me. Thank you both :) but - why did my e-mail system Vanish the owl notifications when I got thread responses notification up until an hour or so ago? :hmm:

Fleur, have you had this problem?

Have you checked your spam folder?

P.S. Congrats on getting your avatar. I love David Chiang too!! :love: Could you make the picture a bit bigger, though? One can hardly see him...

Have you checked your spam folder?

P.S. Congrats on getting your avatar. I love David Chiang too!! :love: Could you make the picture a bit bigger, though? One can hardly see him...

Yes I have. Spam folder is empty. Don't understand it. :hmm:

I'm not sure how to upload a bigger pix of David but I'll try. Thks for the congrats. :rockon:

I hate to do this, but I'm starting my career as a Hogsmeade student with a complaint: I did not get notification of two owls, one by Morgoth who gave me the good news, and one from FleurduJardin who congratulated me. Thank you both :) but - why did my e-mail system Vanish the owl notifications when I got thread responses notification up until an hour or so ago? :hmm:

Fleur, have you had this problem?

This seems to be a problem that many members have had, nothing has changed on the COS side of things, so as Fleur suggested, try your spam folders as your ISP or email provider could have updated some settings that prevent you from getting notification. Unfortunately this is not something we can cure on our side.

This seems to be a problem that many members have had, nothing has changed on the COS side of things, so as Fleur suggested, try your spam folders as your ISP or email provider could have updated some settings that prevent you from getting notification. Unfortunately this is not something we can cure on our side.

I did try my spam folder, it was empty. :grumble: And I continue to get notification on responses to my posts, very up-to-date, it's only Owl Notification that seems to be off. Very strange. :hmm:

I understand however the problem does not originate from, so cannot be fixed by CoS. I appeal to other members who may use Yahoo Mail like me. FleurduJardin, any other Yahoo users, can you help, please? Thank you. :)

I did try my spam folder, it was empty. :grumble: And I continue to get notification on responses to my posts, very up-to-date, it's only Owl Notification that seems to be off. Very strange. :hmm:

I understand however the problem does not originate from, so cannot be fixed by CoS. I appeal to other members who may use Yahoo Mail like me. FleurduJardin, any other Yahoo users, can you help, please? Thank you. :)

Sorry, M_M. I don't understand why you're having this problem at all and can't help. I'm getting all my owl and response notifications with no hitch that I can see. Maybe your browser has something against owls. :lol:

I'm sorry I'm such a dope... :blush: And I apologize for this being a copy of a post from the Triwizard Tournament thread, but I'd really like to have an answer to this technical problem so that I can post my entry to the Tournament when the time comes.

The other thread will open on Feb 15 and you can post your entry then. If you need help with attachments check out this thread: A Guide To Posting on CoS Forums (Image Intensive) (http://www.cosforums.com/showthread.php?t=71466)

I have carefully read "A Guide to Posting" and looked at all the pictures. My problem is, when I post a reply (like I'm doing now), the screen goes from "Miscellaneous Options" to "Thread Subscription". There is NO "Manage Attachments" in between the two. Is this a failure in my browser? (I use Mozilla Firefox). Without the option of uploading an attachment, how can I post my entry? **frustrated**

The screen under "Submit Reply" shows this:
Additional Options
Miscellaneous Options
Show your signature
Automatically parse links in text
Disable smilies in text
Thread Subscription
Notification Type:
Instant Mail notification

Why can't I see the "Manage attachments" that shows on Morgoth's thread? http://www.avenueviet.com/forums/images/smiles/asker.gif

Yes I have. Spam folder is empty. Don't understand it. :hmm:

I'm not sure how to upload a bigger pix of David but I'll try. Thks for the congrats. :rockon:

Have you checked in Magical Me under Edit Options? Maybe you didn't check something, or did check/uncheck something by mistake? :D


-Tibbetts

For the past couple of days when I double-click on the icons to the left of the subforums (the ones that say, "Double-click to mark the contents read"), the icon stops flashing, yet when I click to go the main page, the main page still shows those subforums with flashing icons.

This also happens when I've read the last page in a thread, the thread will still show it being bolded (i.e., new posts).

Is CoS not remembering to mark things as read, or is it something in my computer?

For the past couple of days when I double-click on the icons to the left of the subforums (the ones that say, "Double-click to mark the contents read"), the icon stops flashing, yet when I click to go the main page, the main page still shows those subforums with flashing icons.

This also happens when I've read the last page in a thread, the thread will still show it being bolded (i.e., new posts).

Is CoS not remembering to mark things as read, or is it something in my computer?
I've noticed something similar when I make a reply to as thread and that reply turns out to be at the top of a new page. My own post shows up in Magical Me as a new unread post. It only seems to happen when the page turns over though.

I've had this happen some too. It's happened where it's just a little glitch, and the forums never "Mark as Read", even when I click that over and over, but then if I leave and get back in it's fine. I do know that if you read the last posts of a thread, then to leave, click the link back to the main page, it will still show up as unread. I'm not sure why it does that, but in that case all you have to do is go to that forum, then back to the main page. Odd, but it works.

Thanks, but I think I'll wait until Ali, the technical Wizard, of CoS explains it.

As far as I know, no one knows CoS' technical mojo, like Ali. :D

Have you checked in Magical Me under Edit Options? Maybe you didn't check something, or did check/uncheck something by mistake? :D

-Tibbetts

A million thanks, Tibbetts. That's exactly what it was. I have now checked the right option and, presto! I can see the "Manage Attachments" when I reply. Oh this is so great. :clap:

I owe you one! :)

Ooops... I saw that option for a while but now I don't any more. What happened??? :hmm:

A million thanks, Tibbetts. That's exactly what it was. I have now checked the right option and, presto! I can see the "Manage Attachments" when I reply. Oh this is so great. :clap:

I owe you one! :)

No problem. I've done that before. lol.. So I knew how to fix it. ;)

Ooops... I saw that option for a while but now I don't any more. What happened??? :hmm:

What's missing, if I might ask?


-Tibbetts