If you're having log in problems, the likely culprit is cookies. The cookies in your machine now are from the old software, and don't match up with the new. The problem will resolve itself when your old cookies expire, but in the meantime, you will have login issues. Here are detailed instructions for getting rid of cookies. When you're done, close down your browser, open it again, and make sure you type in
www.24hourcampfire.com into your address window. Then click Forums. That should fix 99% of the problems, with the other 1% related to specific firewalls.
Here are the directions:
Internet Explorer 6 - Windows 98:
- In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
- On the General tab, click Settings, and then click View files.
- Click "Name" at the top of the column to put the files in alphabetical order.
- Select the cookie from "www.24hourcampfire.com. It should be titled something like:
Cookie:yourname
www.24hourcampfire.com.com
- Select the cookie you want to delete, and then, on the File menu, click Delete.
Windows XP ***ALL BROWSERS***
- Look under C:\Documents and Settings\your user name*\cookies
*the username you're logged onto your computer as, NOT your 24hourcampfire username.
- Select the cookie from "www.24hourcampfire.com", it should be titled something like:
Cookie:yourname
www.24hourcampfire.com and delete it.
Netscape 4.7 - Windows
Go into the program files/netscape/users/YourComputerLoginName/ and edit my cookie.txt file.
Widnows 98
- On the desktop, click on "Windows Explorer"
- On the left side fo the screen, scroll down to your C drive
- Click on the + sign (if there is a - sign there, the contents of your C drive are already displayed)
- Scroll down to "Windows"
- Click on the + sign
- Scroll down to "Temporary Internet Files"
- At this point, you can either delete all your temporary files, or scroll down on the right hand side of the screen til you find the 24hourcampfire cookies and delete just those.
Internet Explorer 5 - Macintosh:
- Select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.
- Select "cookies" under "Receiving Files" from the list at the left.
- In the list on the right, select the cookies files from "www.24hourcampfire.com"
(There could be as many as 4; w3t_language, w3t_myname, w3t_mypass and w3t_visit)
- Click "Delete"
- Click "OK"
Netscape 4.6 - Macintosh:
- Go to the "finder" (Macintosh Operating System).
- On your hard drive, open Your "System Folder"
- Open the "Preferences" folder.
- Open the "Netscape Users" folder
- Open the folder for your name (ex. "Joe Smith")
- Drag the file titled "MagicCookie" to the trash can.
Netscape 6 - Macintosh:
- Select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.
- Click the little triangle next to "Privacy & Security", then click on "Cookies"
- Click "View Stored Cookies"
- If you click on "Site" at the top of the list it will sort them by site.
- Scroll down to and select the cookies from "www.24hourcampfire.com"
(There could be as many as 4; w3t_language, w3t_myname, w3t_mypass and w3t_visit)
- Click on "Remove Cookie"
- Click "OK"
Remember, close your browser down, then re-open it, and then type in
www.24hourcampfire.com into the address window. Then click on Forums. That should fix it.
Rick
