I Have A Problem With This Forum

[grey beard]

Nothi

Nothing I post shows up to me. Even when I click on "New Posts" I see nothing I have posted. The forum recognizes me by name each time I check in. The date and time are correct, as well as my post counts, yet northing I have posted in the last week is visible to me. When I open either the car or trudk side, the same old posts from two weeks ago show at the top of each list. Last post on the Pilothouse side is NADA truck values.

Can anyone help sort me out? Since I seem to be the only person who has the problem, I am obviously doing something wrong. Please know that I welcome advice/comments/assistance.

Thanks:(

[Don Coatney]

Dave;

The reason you will not see a posting you have made when you hit the "new posts" button is the posting is no longer new. Once you made the posting the forum host server (not your home computer) logs the posting as having been read. I know it works that way as I have logged on to this forum using many different computers and when I hit the new posts key only postings that I have not read show up.

It appears your browser loads an old version of the forum when you log on. Try using the refresh feature once you have logged on to see if it updates. You might also want to clear your history cache and empty your cookie jar.

[Norm's Coupe]

Don,

I've also made post, then it didn't show up as being read or unread. It's just not there, even after hitting the refresh button. Sometimes when it happens I even leave this site and go to another site. When I come back here the post still isn't there. May not show up for several hours later. Due to that problem, I've even ended up making double post on the thread involved, then have to delete one of them later. Not only that but sometimes when switching from one thread to another, I'll get a message "Page not found", among the other problems we discussed in a previous thread the other day.

So I can relate to what Dave is saying. Either the system has some bugs in it, or it's becoming overloaded. Don't know which. Dave and I are not the only ones having multiple problems.

[Don Coatney]

Don' date='

I've also made post, then it didn't show up as being read or unread. It's just not there, even after hitting the refresh button. Sometimes when it happens I even leave this site and go to another site. When I come back here the post still isn't there. May not show up for several hours later. Due to that problem, I've even ended up making double post on the thread involved, then have to delete one of them later. Not only that but sometimes when switching from one thread to another, I'll get a message "Page not found", among the other problems we discussed in a previous thread the other day.

So I can relate to what Dave is saying. Either the system has some bugs in it, or it's becoming overloaded. Don't know which. Dave and I are not the only ones having multiple problems.[/quote']

Norm;

Have you tried dumping your cookie jar and clearing your history?

[Norm's Coupe]

Don,

I have my computers set to dump all history and cache after each session on the internet. So the history and cache are always clean. Cookies are also dumped automatically.

[Johnny S]

I've seen a similar issue and haven't quite figured it out either but the solution that does seem to work is to jump out of the forum back to the P15-D24 home site and then jump back into just the P15-D24 (or just Pilothouse) and list all of the threads.....the posts are still there. Something is not "user friendly" in the way it works. Like Don says the message isn't "new" as soon as you post it. It is apparently marked as "read" back to your address immediately. Anyway...I probably don't have it really figured out correctly but I know I can find what otherwise seems to have disappeared from the entire Universe by going to "Return to P15-D24" up at the top, coming back into the "forum" and then going directly to P15-D24 only ....... which seems to be listing out ALL of the threads regardless of whether they are read or unread....kinda like the old forum was set up.

[Norm's Coupe]

Johnny, I've done the same thing as you before. It does work sometimes that way but not always. However, you should not have to jump back and forth like that.

[Johnny S]

Agreed Norm.....I don't think its working as a user would want it to work at all. I use the "New Posts" and the "Quick Links - Today's Posts" most of the time. But every now and again when I want to find a post that I'm following I resort to jumping out and back into the forum. Then I find that complete list. And, I find that I like that method as well because the posts all seem to be remaining in "order" like the old forum.

[Don Coatney]

I dont have to jump back and forth. I have never had these problems on any of the puters I use. But I stay logged on and am not in the stelth mode. I can be logged on using two or more computers at the same time and do not have the problem. If I access this forum and do not log on then things get somewhat scrambled as the host server does not know who I am. Once I log on and let the server know who I am things return to normal. Once again I suggest you manually dump your cookies and manually clear your history. Try it. What do you have to lose?

[Johnny S]

Don, it could be a cookies issue for some but in my case I don't believe it is. I run on a cable modem and the machine runs 24/7. The only time I "lose my cookies" is when I run the cookie cleaner - Window Washer - which happens about once every week or so.

I experimented with this issue a few minutes ago doing a followup post to my posting this morning about the 218 engine I'm working on. And it happened again....couldn't find the post without resorting to the "bounce out - bounce in" method. Then the posting was "back".

Not sure whether it is system error or operator error but there is an error in here somewhere. And, I'm due to be the cause of an error shortly.....I think I made one last week too?

[Young Ed]

I must say I have no issues either. But I dont use the show me new posts function. The system is pretty smart to know that if you just wrote a post you don't need to read it again. I just go to the forums and read what I want from the list of headings. The ones with new to me posts are a diff color then the ones I've read already. And when I make a new post and go back to the list my new post is at the top and shows as read already.

[Johnny S]

Maybe that's the difference? I almost always go to "New Posts" and use it almost exclusively. That gives me new postings to all of the forums and all of the categories. I seldom just go into the P15-D24 forum only. That's where the listings show up in the two different color shades. And, that's (the P15-D24 only forum) where I go to recover my listings that I lose. Maybe its the transistion between those multiple locations that both causes the problem and solves the problem. I love it....a problem that solves itself.

[Norm's Coupe]

I've used all the methods Johnny mentioned too, and still have the problems once in awhile. It also makes no difference if I'm logged in or not. In addition, I've replied to a post before and even though my post did show up, it did not move to the top of the list, it just stayed where it originally was from the last post. I've even made a reply, hit submit and it tells me I'm not logged in. Yet at the top it says I am logged in and shows if I have PM's and list my name in the upper right corner. Have to log in again anyway to make the post. It really gets annoying sometimes.

[Johnny S]

All I can say Norm.....is.....you have more problems than me

[Brad Lustig]

I'm not having any problems on my end, either. I wonder, are the same people that are having problems now the same that were having problems earlier with the new posts when GTK first set this up? I wasn't having any problems then, either.

[DutchEdwin]

Did any of you run: XP Repair Pro 2006

This program cleans all left, not closed links in windows XP.

I did this a week ago. It cleaned 2500 left overs from old links.

It does make your computer faster, and it does not look at (m)any links that lead to nothing.

[Norm's Coupe]

Can't run XP repair. I'm running Windows 98.

[DutchEdwin]

Can't run XP repair. I'm running Windows 98.

Norm' date='

If you are still runneing W 98, you probably have speed problems because the anti virus programs eat up much speed of your machine, I asume you have an old PC.

I also have an old PC (pentium 1) on this one I run AVG free anti virus software ( [url']http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1[/url] ) It keeps up with the virus problems. Never had any problem with that one.

[Norm's Coupe]

Edwin,

Actually, my computer isn't an older one. It's only a couple of years old and has lots of speed and excess memory. Forgot the specifics on it. However, I just like the older software and that's why I'm still running windows 98. I have lots of left over space if I wanted to run the latest version of windows. I am on dial up though for the internet. I also have an accelerator supplied by my provider. It will speed up the internet connection at least 18 times or faster sometimes, if I use it. I've tried it both ways on the forum, with and without the accelerator and have the same problems either way. So, don't think it's a speed problem.

[DutchEdwin]

ok, then the lesson should perhaps go on worms, toyen horses, etc. I only just run hitmanpro, a program that runs a lot of these software, combined. But one step more and that's out of my territory.

I my view, when I buy a car it will run as good on the first day as on the fifth year. Most people will stay off the car. When you buy a computer and get in the www....then there are people who immediately will try to kill the machine just for fun. This is costing all of us a lot of $$$$€€€.

So I say, when I meet a hacker, I will want to walk up to his car and make a tiny little scratch on it, and wonder what he will say to me about that.

Perhaps he will not want to understand what I'm trying to tell him. :D

Norm good luck on finding out what's wrong.

[Norm's Coupe]

Edwin,

Don't think I have any type of virus or trojan in the computer. I use Norton Anti Virus (professional version). It's constantly running in the background and constantly updating against new ones. I also run a scan manually about once a month to check for those things. Always comes up with nothing found that doesn't belong.

I guess several people are complaining about the same problems I have on the forum. Doesn't happen all the time, just sometime. I think it's either some type of bug in the system, or, it could be at one of the transfer points between my computer and the host for the forum. When I say bug, I don't mean a virus or trojan in the forum, but something to do with the scrip used in the programing of the forum program. It may not be completely compatible with all web browsers.

[grey beard]

I now have come up with a "worki-around" that lets me see all the posts - even my own. It requires me to hit the "renew" buitton every time I open this forum - and again sometimes when viewing threads. If I renew on this side, I still need to do it again on the truck side. Can't udnerstand this because nothing has changed otherwise, just need to renew often. Go figure . . .

Can any computer gurus help me figure this out?

[Young Ed]

That is so weird. Mine renews everytime I exit a thread back to the forum list. If I've replied to a post that thread will be moved to the top and already marked as read as soon as I get back to the list.

[Normspeed]

Once you're in the forum, after you read a post don't use your back button, go to the bottom and hit "go" next to forum jump. It will refresh the page and take you back to the list of posts.

[DutchEdwin]

Norm, It will not help with your problem, but me being at some long end on the forum, I have no problem with it. My tube is a 100Mbps ADSL line.

I have some friends that do computer things. They told me a virus scanner like Norton will not protect you. I have McAfee and have to run PCtools sometimes inside a tool called hitmanpro. it is free to use. It always comes up with some kind of (harmless) spyware or worm inside my computer. I read my mail on the web, will not download it onto my PC until I really know it it free from viruses.

Although hitmanpro will not support W98 like you have, just visit it and read what's on it for knowledge. For all of you who do have XP, it is free to use. It will help to get your PC clean. http://www.hitmanpro.nl/hitmanpro/index.php?lang=en

This guy makes the program that combines 30 day's free tools. launches a new version about every two month.