Log-In Blues

[Ken Berry]

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. Just today, I have now had to log-in to the Board five separate times, whereas normally my log-in lasts till I physically log-out. To illustrate this, until today, my current log-in has lasted since February, when I had to rebuild my computer and all its programs, including the browser. But today, with no changes at all to the computer or other programs on it, my log-in has automatically failed each time I either closed the browser, re-booted the computer or sometimes (but not always) clicked on the Go button beside 'Select a forum' in the bottom right of screen -- a button I normally use many times a day to get back to the main index page of this Board when I am way down a list of individual posts. In the past, this has never logged me out.

As I say, just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. And if so, or even if not, whether anyone has any info about a change in the Board's programming that might be causing this...

In this regard, a special 'nudge' to John Hunter who, IIRC, in the past has had his own blues with being locked out of logging in to the Board...

[lancecarr]

Hi Ken, just intentionally logged out then closed the browser. Opened IE6 again then went to the forum site, it asked me to log in so I did and checked the "Remember me" button. Closed the browser again then re-opened and went back to the site. No login necessary as usual.
Haven't done a drastic cookie clean or history clean recently have you?

[BrianCee]

Not experiencing any problems myself at the moment Ken - but I know that when I run a disk clean up programme on my PC it deletes all the cookies and I have to log in again next time, just wondering if you have accidently or unknowingly started some form of cookie deletion process on your PC - some anti-spy programmes include what they call a 'web-trial' deletion option which is supposed to stop any one checking out where you've been - and one of the things that does is delete all cookies as well as the history and cached web pages - this tends to log you out of everything and you have to log back in again.

[Rich2Putt]

As I say, just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. And if so, or even if not, whether anyone has any info about a change in the Board's programming that might be causing this...

In this regard, a special 'nudge' to John Hunter who, IIRC, in the past has had his own blues with being locked out of logging in to the Board...[/quote]

I've had similiar issues in the past with sign ins. One thing I am noticing is when I post a new subject, I haven't received any notification from Ulead that someone has replied to it. I've verified that my profile information is correct and the box is checked to receive notification.

[Ken Berry]

Well, thanks. Guess it is at my end, but I am at a loss as to what it is since I have done nothing, zilch, zip, nada, rien to my computer. In fact, until today, just for test purposes, I had not rebooted since yesterday, when the Board worked perfectly for me. No cookie clean-out, no history squelch, nada (but that would be repeating myself! ) Ah well, hopefully it might (eventually) correct itself just as mysteriously -- but just before posting this, I clicked on the refresh button and was again required to log-in!!!

[Black Lab]

The significant omission in VS10+ seems to be the Album transition, which Ulead appear to have dropped -- or, at least, I can't find it.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. Just today, I have now had to log-in to the Board five separate times, whereas normally my log-in lasts till I physically log-out.

You're having a rough day Ken

[jchunter]

Well, Ken, welcome to the club! Maybe, now, we can begin to solve the mystery of the intermittent, sporadic loss of login state (or, sometimes, inability to login at all).

Most annoying, of course, is to lose logged-in state after drafting a reply to someone who needs help but just prior to posting it. After this happens I usually can't login for a while - then magically, I can, and all is well for days or weeks - but then the malaise returns.

I have urged our administrators many times to investigate to try to locate the problem and also tried to get some action from Ulead tech support but the problem continues...

BTW, I am now trying other browsers, to see if this can possibly alleviate the problem (I had been using IE).

[Ken Berry]

I use Firefox (currently v.1.5.0.3 -- the latest -- but also consistently used this browser in previous versions). Haven't used IE for well over a year, so I don't think it is browser related. I should add that I upgraded to Firefox 1.5.0.3 when it came out about a week or so ago, but it has been stable and the log-in problem only started yesterday for no observable reason. And it continues. On starting up the browser this morning, I found I was logged out again, and it has since occurred again when I refreshed the screen.

[kebrinton]

Hearing Ken's story made me realize I could have it worse.

I can stay logged into the forum all right, but I've learned never to try to change a password, an email address, or a user name.

Useless to tell the boring story here, but will just report that I had to laugh bitterly when trying to make a change, identified myself with my email, and was told "somebody else" had already claimed it! (Namely, ME using a different password, or whatever.) It was a problem back when we switched over to this new forum, and it's still a problem.

[Ken Berry]

Just thought I would report that it's a bit like parthenogenesis (virgin birth!). Without the touch of human hands, my problems appears to have correct itself. After a couple of reboots, several refreshes and quite a number of clicks on the 'Jump to' button, I have remained logged in as of yore. Touch wood!!