Trouble staying logged in?

[FORDification]

It seems that more than a few people have had some problems staying logged in lately, after the security updates were made. This was due to a difference in how the forum's cookies are set up.

If this has been happening to you, it should be an easy 30-second fix on your part. All you have to do is clear out your browser's cache and cookies files.

In Netscape, go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Cache and hit the button that says Clear Cache. Then (in the same window) go to Privacy & Security > Cookies and click the Cookie Manager button. That will show you a list of all cookies on your computer. A LOT of those you don't need, but if there are some you want to keep, just scroll down and delete any cookies for 'fordification.com' and 'www.fordification.com'. Then close your browser and restart, and log back into the site.

In IE, go to Tools > Internet Options. Make sure you have the 'General' tab selected. In the section marked Temporary Internet Files, click the buttons marked 'Delete Cookies' and 'Delete Files'. This will clear out all stored cookies and all the files in your cache. (If you have some kind of cookie manager, you can look for any cookies related to 'fordification.com' and just delete those.) Then close your browser, restart and log back into the site.

Clearing out your old cookies will allow new ones to be set, and your log-in problems should be fixed.

[fordman]

this process didn't work. i have done it 4 times the last time was manually and i dumped even my content ie5 folders. i am running me. after i dumped all of it i shut down and restarted. came back to the site and i was logged out of course. but when i logged in i was sent to ford.oldsmobility.com and i was listed at the bottom of the page . but i wasnt logged in. so i had to log in again to get to here.

[FORDification]

Can you close your browser and come back and you're still logged on?

[fordman]

when i close my browser and come back i have been logged off. even though it may or may not have my user name at the bottom.

[fordman]

oh and i am using the remember me check mark

[mrsnicks]

Same here.. cleared cookies, cleared history, deleted files. Everytime I come back to the site I have to log in. I also cannot use the "View posts since last visit" option.

I too am using the "remember me" box. I am using Internet Explorer. No additional cookie handler.

Patrick

[fordman]

heres what i did last night. i logged out then i found the fordification cookie and deleted it. then when i logged back on today i didn't check keep me logged in and it worked fine. i could see all of the post that had been answered today.

[dcbullet]

I am also not able to stay logged in. Tried deleting everything etc. This is with IE at work. At home, where I use Firefox, I don't have this problem. It's pretty annoying because everytime I have to log back in, all the messages get cleared out (i.e. I can't tell what I've read previously.

[72hiboy4x4]

Right after my secondary hard drive failed, mine was diong the same thing. No cookies saved.
It took re-formating and re-installing everything before I could get it to work correctly again. But it does now.

[Fordfool]

I cannot stay logged in and I use Firefox...Tried all I can think of.

[Redcap]

I cannot stay logged in and I use Firefox...Tried all I can think of.

Same here.

[fordman]

i'm still doing the same as i was before logging out and deleting my cookies before i come back. it seems to work for me. until the spike is found.

[flyboy2610]

I'm using Netscape 7.1, and I don't seem to be having a problem.

[xxxtina63]

The "server overload" symptoms kicked in again around 12:30 today. Couldn't even log out. Seems OK now though.

[Galaxie64]

I use firefox as well and it seems to come and go sometimes I can stay logged in for most of a day other times it forgets me 3 minutes later.