DG page refresh

While watching the forums the only way I can get a new download update is to use the refresh button. Like the clock say's 4:04 and stays there until I close the link and start over again.

Do you have Internet Explorer? If so, change your options so it checks for a new version of the page each time you visit it.

1. TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS

2. Under "Temporary Internet Files" on the first tab,
you'll see a button that says SETTINGS.

3. Click that and under "Check for newer versions of stored pages" select "Every Visit to the Page"

4. Click OK, then OK again.

HTH :) Kimberley

Mine was set on automatic. Changed it to Every visit and same thing. The only way I can get the changes is to revisit the site every time I want to see if it changed.

You must be using a proxy at your ISP. I know how to work around that sillyness, and I have implemented it (on the front page only).

Go back to the front page, click on reload, and from that time on everytime you go it should automatically load up correctly for you.

dave

Sorry but cant find front page and reload button. Do you mean Home page and refresh button??

This message was edited Thursday, Oct 31st 5:11 PM

I have the same thing happening -- I went to the Home Page (where the forums I'm watching are listed) and then clicked Reload, but still there are no automatic new uploads.

Am still having the same problem that Tarogers5 had/has. I am a Mac user with Netscape as the browser. I have logged out of Dave's, cleared my cache and restarted the computer and browser, but still it is necessary to click Reload every time I want to know if there have been new posts. As I understand it, my DG home page should update automatically (clock, threadwatcher, etc.). I read Dave's answer about the proxy business, so after I logged off, cleared the cache, and rebooted, I went to DG and hit Reload, but nothing has changed. Am I doing something wrong?

Still doing the same for me too. I go back to the home page (welcome back tarogers) and hit refresh. brouse and then keep hitting refresh to see what is happening.

Yep, that's it, Tarogers. I sometimes get embarrassed about how many times I'm reloading the homepage, because I know Dave's server watches all that, but there's no other way for me to know there's been a new post.

whiterose found a shorter way of doing it. Whatever forum I am watching I right click and chose refresh. It will refresh that page so I can get the next coment right away.

Thank you, Tarogers5. I use a Mac, so right-clicking is not an option here -- but am very glad that you figured it out for the PC, that will save you a lot of time. Happy birthday!

whiterose... Go to Preferences under Netscape, then to Advanced. Under Advanced, look at the cache settings; at the bottom, there is a radio button to engage Netscape to compare a page to the page in the cache everytime that page is viewed. (What it does then is refresh the page if anything on the page has changed.) If you check this, I think you will find your problem solved.

Thanks, Darius! We just needed a Mac expert to come help us out. :)

Dave... ... sometimes I do manage to get lucky with advice, LOL!

Darius, thank you for helping me. I wish I could report success, but alas -- it didn't work. I logged off Dave's, then changed the cache preference to "every time," then logged off the Internet and restarted my iBook and logged back onto the Internet (and DG). When it became clear that the page was not changing, I clicked on "reload," thinking the proxy needed to be overridden, but still nothing changed. I repeated the procedure twice, to no avail.

I have pretty much concluded that there's some unalterable (by me) setting associated with the server that won't allow the page to change without reloading it -- is that possible?

Thank you very much for your consideration and making this helpful suggestion -- all logic says that it should have worked, and I appreciate it.

whiterose, I had the same problem with my old Mac. I got in the habit of hitting the skip to new button the top of a thread, and after reading the latest post in that thread, then hitting the back button once which took me back to the top of that thread, and then I hit the Home button in the righthand menu bar... which took me Home to a refreshed page.

Thank you, Darius. That is what I will do. It's not that big a deal, just a puzzlement...these puters!

darius~after reading this I just changed mine from once per session to everytime. So, I should notice a difference with what??? And no, my defrag still will not defrag. and while I have you here. ....how come everyone tells me(those PC people) that I should have some type of defragger built right in and I cant seem to find it.? I was just looking into iMac for dummies. Looks interesting. I told Santa.

This info board looks pretty active, Mings: http://forums.maccentral.com/wwwthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=helptips Try that forum and search for defrag. There were a lot of hits. It was all greek to me since I don't know squat about mac's, though! :)

GARDENWIFE!!!!!!! K*I*S*S*
What yoursbond writes about on that site is ME!!!!!! Not Me, but. my trobles EXACTLY. Now. All I have to do is read it 132139720 times and get a computer to English dictionary and figure it all out. that looks like a great site. thanks a ton!

Great, Mings! It looked like a lot of good info and I hoped something there would help ya. :)

Really appreciate it. How Did you find that site? really a keeper!

I went to Google (of course!) and typed in

defragging mac http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=defragging+%2Bmac

Different results, also good, come up with the search

defrag mac http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=defrag+%2Bmac

The thing about Google is, you can almost always find an answer by typing in just two or three keywords about the problem. It's terrific!

odd! I am on google all the time and never thought to look there. DAH! Senior Blonde moment. Must be the snow. Anyways. I have bookmarked those adn will have to click till my hearts content. thanks again for all your help. Did you all ever end up getting a new Mac? I think I remember awhile ago you were talking about getting a new computer/

Nope, still a PC shop here. But we will get one some day! :)

MAC

no manners

Ulrich ...tch ...tch...

darius, So, what should my disk cashe_ kbytes number be set at there on that page then? and should I hit Clear cashe now button or leave it.

This message was edited Saturday, Dec 7th 2:01 PM

ULRICH

MM... I clear the cache all the time, if I happen to think of it... although mine is set pretty high... 10 MB. The cache mostly contains images, like the DG logo, or all the images on your home page. Whatever you trash will get re-loaded the next time you visit those pages. I just don't think I need to keep all the images from all the catalogs I have shopped online!

Mine was on 10MB there too. I changed it to always from once persession. I was referrning to that other # above.