General forum question - new posts indication

Andy_P

I've always found the new post indication on the index pages a bit flakey, but noe I seem to got into a permanent situation where, when I access this forum it never shows any new posts, and when I access the Speed Cam forum, it shows the threads with new posts but when I click on the "new posts" icon on ech thread, it comes back with a message box saying "No new posts since your last visit" even though there are.

I suspect a corrupted cookie or somethig, but have never really understood the mechanism, because on other forums it seems to work, even when I access the sites from two different computers.

Any ideas on what I could try deleting to give me a clean slate?

JLee · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

I get exactly the same problem.

1952kev · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:

Me To

1952kev · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

...............it all seems to be working again now......... :D

Aitch2 · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

If you're using Windows, cookies will usually be in:

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Cookies - and are *.txt files.

Where (username) is what you're logged in as (eg. under Win2k/WinXP).

Just look for (username)@pocketgpsworld.txt or (username)@www.pocketgpsworld.txt and delete these files.

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pip510 · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:25 am Post subject:

errrm How do you get to the bit about new posts??
I have only ever been looking at the end of the last page to see if I have read the last postings...
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Tim Buxton · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject:

Or... if you are logged in, on the index page for each forum (where all the topics are listed), the "page in a circle" icon on the left hand side should light up orange on topics with new posts; and if you click on the icon to the right (an little orange page with a black arrow beside it) it should take you to the first unread post in that topic.

But you do have to be logged in for these to appear.

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:

Sorry to drag this to the top again...
But I've just got round to searching through my cookies and there is nothing from pocketgpsworld (or any of the other forums I subscribe to either) so the new posts indication must be done another way.
Come to think of it, I can usually log in at home or at work and the forums still "know" which posts are unread, so doesn't that mean it must be stored centrally on the PGPSW servers?
Does anyone have any more info on how it works (or how to sort it out)?

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

Dragging to the top again. Embarassed

For the PGPSW Website people:

The PGPSWorld forums always show me all the threads with new posts when I first open the index page for that forum (as little orange flags), but as soon as I click on the first one, I ALWAYS get a "No new posts since your last visit" page, and am then directed back to the same index page with all the orange flags gone.

As I'm getting a bit obsessive about reading all the posts, this is driving me nuts!!
As I said above, it does not seem to be done with cookies at my end, but must be registered at the server somehow. None of my other forums misbehave like this, all the PGPSW ones do.
Please do something (even if its just to explain how the system should work).... Crying or Very sad

chris_w · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

Yes - I get this problem too.

Not sure what causes it.................
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oddsock · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

RobBrady · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

Sorry, only just spotted this thread.

Please make sure that you always use the main site www.PocketGPSWorld.com and not a mirror site. Your browser needs to accept cookies from our site. There is an issue (which we are addressing)with cookies when you use a mixture of www.pocketgpsworld.com, pocketgpsworld.com, www.pocketgpsworld.com and pocketgpsworld.com.

On Internet Explorer you can clear your cookies using Tools/Internet Options/Delete Cookies.

Then 'hard' refresh offending pages by pressing 'Control' on your keyboard whilst pressing the refresh/reload button on your browser.

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