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POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Saturday, September 16, 2006 16:55
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Well the weirdness just continues : I tried a bunch of different browsers today, including Camino and Shiira. All looked nice and shiny, and all of them were installed for the first time ever on my mac at work.... None of them worked.... The only site it wouldn't open... Yup you guessed it, this one. Yet here I type on my old mac running OS 9 using IE with no problem able to log in to the best forum in the world..
So what else - anyone know if there is a seperate folder in OS X somewhere where old files/cookies/cache may also be stored?
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It sounds to me like something that is local to both of your computers at home. Camino, Shiira, and Flock will all pull the caches, bookmarks and all that stuff from your old browsers. You may have to go in and manually delete them. But, I don't think this is the problem.
I think the problem has to do with the network you're on at home. It maybe your DSL/Cable modem or your router that's giving you the problem. You can try pinging the site to see if you are even able to get packets sent to it. If you go to your Applicaitons > Utilities folder and open the network program in there, you should be able to ping the site directly and see if your packets are being reached or not.
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The only thing I can I can think of is maybe some of that spam transfered to your computer and is affecting your connection. Does that make sense? Maybe doing a spam scan will help. Could be it's misdirecting your connection and taking you back to your main page (it happened to me) Hope you can figure it out Somnambulist.
Also I don't know if you know but in order to get the site back up Haken had to go back to an older version of the site so a lot of things that were talked about, discussed or seen have dissapeered. I don't know if that's a direct result of your problem but I thought you should know. Comments were lost on some fanfic and pictures but Haken's working on it.
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Did you try resetting Safari, or any of the other browsers? Unfortunately, after doing that you'll have to type in all your screen names and/or passwords for any site you've ever been to.
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You ever get this fixed Som?
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Hello to all.
Listen I really appreciate all your individual help with this matter, just goes to show what friendly and helpfull folk there is here. :D
Sadly I'm having no luck with this. It's beyond odd now. What is really troubling me though is the fact that it is only happening with THIS forum. It doesn't make sense. I've tried about all I know and tried all the above suggestions, even to the point of removing/losing many of my book marks - not that that bothers me too much.
The thing about the spam sounded plausible but there is no connection between my computer at home and my computer at work so that seems unlikely and both are served by seperate IP addresses...
So for the time being, no I've not sorted this one out. And sadly it's meant less visits to this place which is a shame... I kinda like it around here...
Ohh actually I've just had an idea, can anyone remember the procedure to reset the desktop in OS X? I know it for OS 9 but I've not had use for it in ten yet. Perhaps if I tried that, then re-install the relevant browsers...? How's that sound?
Two straws left!
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That isnt possible with OS X, unless you're running an old application thru OS 9, which is what we do here at work.
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JRC
No i've now realised there's no such feature for OSX - weird this though. It all started when the forum went down a few months back, remember that? Can that have anything to do with it? Did I pick up some kinda bad coding or other around the time the site went down and now the forum's defences are somehow regecting my request to log on.....?
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Help! I'm missing this place :(
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My first thought is that a cookie or a temp file got corrupted. I've also had issues with browsers not deleting quite everything they say they will, so something might be lurking around.
Try creating a new user and try to login under that. That way all of the local config files will be re-created and any problems with local cache can be avoided, too.
What version of Firefox are you using? Is your OSX updated?
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