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Ed Monague
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Initially Posted - 10/04/2001 :  13:04:50  Show Profile
As I get more familiar with this new forum set-up I get more puzzled. According to the directions, if there are postings made since your last visit to the site the folder should be purple. If there have been no postings on a subject since the last visit

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 10/04/2001 :  13:49:51  Show Profile
It probably has to do with your browser settings. I'm not techie, but I think the site probably leaves a cookie on your computer which is how it knows when you were there last. Do you have cookies enabled on your browser?

Cathy
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RichardG
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Response Posted - 10/04/2001 :  15:31:19  Show Profile
If you are in "Active Topics", only topics which have new postings since your last time will show up. Unfortunately all postings on such topics appear. However, it does narrow it down quite a bit and you will learn to skim through those postings which y

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Bristle
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Response Posted - 10/04/2001 :  20:30:32  Show Profile
I've noticed that you can view topics without "loging in", but then everything is purple. If you log in, it seems to work (most of the time). But then sometimes it suddenly changes to all purple.

Maybe the Taliban is right.......


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Shelby
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Response Posted - 10/04/2001 :  21:13:48  Show Profile
I have only had that problem when I'm not logged in also, otherwise it always seems to work ok for me.

Shelby Third S #3208 SKSR


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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 10/04/2001 :  21:29:25  Show Profile
I don't know if this helps Mark answered some questions early on about the updates (see his quote below). I log on to the forum from two computers(one @ home & one @ work) and they both show purple folders for any new post added since I last visited the

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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 10/04/2001 :  21:38:37  Show Profile
I had the same problem when I first started using the new format ... the folders stayed purple, and I couldn't tell which topics I had read. However, I found out that if you "log out" and then "log in" again, the folders will turn yellow.

I'm not sure

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allencl
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Response Posted - 10/05/2001 :  00:03:03  Show Profile  Visit allencl's Homepage
My folders seem to change colors properly. Also, whenever I visit the forum I am automatically logged on, so I never have to enter my username or password. I do follow somebody's suggestion to use the link at the bottom statistics section that gives the

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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 10/05/2001 :  07:01:29  Show Profile
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> I'm not sure if this works if you check the box that says "remember password" when you log in ... I always uncheck that box so that I have to

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Ed Monague
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Response Posted - 10/07/2001 :  21:47:18  Show Profile
Thanks you all, I don't know what the difference is but when I logged on just now I actually had different colored folders. Yahoo!! Ed


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Bill Holcomb
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Response Posted - 10/08/2001 :  11:04:47  Show Profile
There you go Ed. It probably has to do with logging on.

Bill Holcomb - C25 Snickerdoodle #4839


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