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alcyone

At first I thought it was my internet connection, and once I realized that it was the site that was down, I suddenly didn't have nearly enough to do online anymore!

Thanks for getting these boards up and running again.

Unfortunately, I still can't access the boards from my PC. I still get the four score logo screen. I'm currently using my old iMac (with aol 5.0) to get here.

I've tried rebooting a couple of times but that didn't work. Some have mentioned something about 'clearing cookies' but to me that just means that I've eaten the last of the Oreos in the cupboard.

You must remember that I'm an old man, and my computer expertise stops pretty much after turning the thing on.

Oh well, it's nice to have this back up.

Tank (who is still not convinced that this isn't a conspiracy to keep him off the boards)

Tank, you use Internet Explorer on your main computer, don't you? Here's what to try:

First option:

Go to the boards home page on your main computer. If you still get the error page, hold the Shift key down and click Refresh at the top of the screen. This will force your computer to look for the most recent version of the page.

If that doesn't work -

Second option:

Open a browser window.

Click on Tools.

Click on Internet Options.

Click on Clear History (the final option in that window). This deletes pages your computer has stored in its memory - what it might be doing is 'caching' the boards page from when the server was down.

And if that doesn't work -

Third option:

Same dialogue box in IE - Tools, Internet Options - but this time click on Delete Cookies. This is a bit more drastic - all stored passwords, records of pages visited and so on will be deleted, but it should work if the other methods didn't.

Good luck!


Wendy

When you click Clear History, also click Delete Files. The history is just the list of visited website. The Files (aka Cache) are the little bits of each website you visit, such as images and other details, so that you don't have to download them each time.

Thanks for the info. I'll see if I can make any sense out of it on my other computer.

Does that fact that I use aol as my internet provider (and dial-up) mean that I won't be able to recognize the steps you've provided?

We must also take into consideration that I'm a complete incompetant when it comes to what most people think is obvious computer stuff.

I'm not really an idiot, but I have no real background in computers. When I was in school computers used fortran, and IBM punch cards.

Worst case is that I will have to resort to using this old machine to access the boards and will have to resign myself to never sending any more stories to the boards (since I do my writing on the pc).

Tank (who will give things a futile try after he signs off here)

No!

Tank, you can access your email account with your 'normal' pc, can't you? Copy and paste your stories into a new email and use the "Save as draft" option - or send it to your wife. That way, you can access your story from your olc iMac. That way, you can copy and paste it again onto the board.

(I've been using this technique for a while for university stuff - the computers there only have disk drives, and my laptop doesn't have one of those old-fashioned thingies any more.)

Okay, between the hints that Wendy and others have given me, and the AOL help menus, I've finally reconnected with the boards. At least for now.

Thanks to everyone who gave me guidance.

Tank (who supposes that this means he'll have to go back to working on "The Prankster's Revenge")

Yay! A new Tank story! How soon can we expect it?