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Is "My Workspace" fixed?

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by jdclyde

It is amazing, huh? Maybe they could contact a tech site for advice on setting up their servers? ;\

by the scummy one

listen to suggestions???

Hmm -- time to start another instance of that 3.5 yr. timer. I'll revisit this issue then.

by Tammy.Cavadias

And speaking of counting.... 6 weeks and 1 day to go! Did you know you can get 32 2 liter bottles of Diet Coke in a large-size suitcase?

-Tammy [_]3

by Tammy.Cavadias

.. since he'll be coming along with me. He wants to meet the folks that give me "nightmares" ;-) :D :D (j/k)

-Tammy [_]3

by rob miners

something along those lines. I notice that sometimes when I post I get a 404 and when I go back to check someone else has posted at the same time. The content of the post actually gets posted but you get kicked out of the session. I reckon that they should give Thummy a go at setting it up. ;)

by hal 9000

I'm hardly here at the moment. :p

At best an hour a day when I'm not exhausted and wanting to drop dead is all I can manage at the moment. And I haven't missed you either. :D

Col 0:-)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

I'm shocked! Shocked, I say, that you would put any stock in the blather of the defective HAL units alter ego! :0 :(

by deadly ernest

yesterday I thrashed it when I cleaned up my updates list and removed a couple of hundred and updated the rest.

by deepsand

Besides, there is the ancient adage that "Unto those who the gods would destroy/make mad they first grant their wishes."

by boxfiddler Hot topic

a week of intense attention to the last minute submission of a schitload of essay work from my students?

If not, I suppose I'll have to accept a 'duh moment'.

by rob miners

the other day. Delete a hundred. 404, delete a hundred 404. It was like a cracked record. I won't let them build up that much in the future. ;)

by deepsand

so long as it's not me. :D

Been there; done that. It's what an associate of mine refers to as a "brain fart." :^0

by rob miners

We're sorry. Because of a technical error, We're unable to share featured content at this time.

Followed by

We were unable to find the page you requested.
If you arrived here by typing a URL, please make sure the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation are correct, then reload the page by hitting the Enter or Return key on your keyboard.

You have landed on a 404 error page -- the result of a broken link

by boxfiddler Hot topic

Mostly, in relation to My Workspace. I get those, or I get the (working) tabs with no other content.
I've pretty much resigned myself to that fate, at least as long as the tabs work.

by deepsand

The act of observation affects the system being observed.

If we didn't try to view the pages in question, no 404s would occur! :^0

by boxfiddler Hot topic

My Workspace, My Contacts, My Forum Posts, Veiw All (bottom of the forums), trying to open a discussion - any discussion, Print/View All within a particular discussion.
Yes, cleared cache, cookies, yadayada.

by deepsand

Nor, for that matter, the cache or cookies either.

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by boxfiddler Hot topic

was a last resort implementation. You're right. I shouldn't have. Went down entirely for many hours after that. :D :D :D

by boxfiddler Hot topic

I've been fiddling with the zippitydoda again. Told ya I couldn't resist. :(

(This means the 404's are flying again.)

by deepsand

BTW, suggest that you don't touch the thingamabob, the watchmacallit or the zippitydoda either. ;)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

leave everything alone but the zippitydoda. For some reason, that one is irresistible. I just cannot help but fiddle with it. :D

by hal 9000

Granted it's been broken for a long time in respect of how the site used to work but as things stand now I just see it as that is the way that it works now. But I'm Lazy and it saves trying to fix something that I have no control over anyway. :0

So instead of expecting it to work when I press something when it actually does I consider that a Bonus as [b]I Do Expect[/b] a 404. I do expect never to get what I instructed the system here to provide and when it works it's [b]Party Time.[/b] ;)

But I did notice that when Boxy Joined TR that was when the problems started and since she has been here things have got progressively worse so maybe she has been giving Typing Lessons tot he Web Developers and that is the [b]True Reason[/b] why TR is the way that it now is. :^0

After all what's a few HTML Errors between fiends. :D

Col

by nicknielsen

Logged out and logged back in. My Workspace came right up the first time.

Is the way that data is accessed after a log-in somehow different than the way it is accessed from a currently active session? Or does it pre-load as part of the log-in?

by deepsand

being related to "issues" with TR proxy servers. Whether or not he was more specific I don't recall.

by hal 9000

It's just that I don't think that he kept the site working. He was always complaining about the High Quality of the Web Developers and I might add [b]Quite Rightly.[/b] :D

Col

by deepsand

I do know that it wasn't me, as I hadn't the time to keep track of all the open issues, including those that arose after he left.

With no one else constantly pounding on the door, TR went back to sleep.

by deepsand

Happens every time try to access My Workspace/Updates; and, takes many tries before works.

by hal 9000

I'm glad that you actually think that this will get fixed. I gave up ages ago. :p

But then again I'm easily pleased. If the site works well enough for me to see some things I'm happy. Long ago I gave up expecting to see every new thing listed and as I got frustrated in missing things I just altered my expectations and am now happy with only seeing some things. :(

Col 0:-)

by rob miners

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=305715&messageID=3046840

I have resorted to using this in a shortcut and running it before I try to connect to the site. It seems to help me.

C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

I also use a script to open the page.

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WScript.Sleep 1000
wshshell.run "iexplore.exe"
WScript.Sleep 5000
WshShell.AppActivate "Goog"
WScript.Sleep 1000
WshShell.SendKeys ("{TAB}")
WScript.Sleep 1000
WshShell.SendKeys ("https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5265-11518-0.html")
WScript.Sleep 1000
WshShell.SendKeys ("{Enter}")
WScript.Sleep 15000

'get focus of the active window
WshShell.AppActivate "Work"

by deepsand

The problem is one of memory, memory of what once was, of what was once deemed possible.

Dreams stillborn are more easily forgotten than those smothered in the cradle.

by deepsand

[i]user[/i] agnostic.

It took great and continued exception to my replying directly to you.

by rob miners

try IE then if your not haveing as many problems. I've had two 404's this morning already. But lately that's all I've been getting. I can normally get to my workspace on the second attempt. This site has a mind of its own.

by rob miners

and I don't have these problems on any other site that I may visit. Sometimes with IE8 I will get a page can't be displayed but a refresh will usually fix it. I don't have that problem on TR I just get 404's.

by rob miners

My WorkSpace died. I live in My WorkSpace so that I can see when posts have been added to or if My Contacts are online so that I can see what they've been up to. When is this problem going to be solved?

by hal 9000

Pity that My Workspace has never worked for me except for the one time that I looked at it when this thread started. :(

Col

by rob miners

I came on this morning and only had access to My Workspace. No access at all to the Forums. If I clicked on a link it would open the most recent post but that was it. I could navigate with Next or Previous but if I tried to reply I got a 404. It was too cold to go back up inside to see if it was happening on my main System as well so I deleted everything that I could in IE8 and did a restart. It got me back in but I don't know if it was my System or the site. Cookies were included in the files that were deleted.

My Workspace is handy when it works. Threads are constantly updated and you don't have to go looking for new posts.

by Tammy.Cavadias

Here are a few things to try:

- CPR
- Try a defibrillator
- Bribe with chocolate chip cookies
- Come to the TR Anniversary get-together

-Tammy [_]3

by deepsand

Same thing happened to me in the very recent past; don't know if same day as your experience.

I just gave up and came back later.

by ksoniat

If I clicked on "My Workspace" nothing came up. But if I "floated" over it the window actually came up with latest updates and I could click on it there.

Not as convenient, but workable for them time being. :)

by deepsand

For me, owing to not being able to always tend to things in anything close to real time, it is frequently the case that I need to look at the expanded "90 day" listing, the one that's not really everything for the past 90 days!

by jck

i might just break doctor's orders,whip out the ....credit card :^0 , and head to KY lmao

by deepsand

is [b]not updated as frequently[/b] as is the regular listing.

At the moment, Workspace listing shows 5 threads with new posts, all from today, 20 JUN. The pop-up menu is still showing 10 threads, with posts dated from 17 JUN through 20 JUN, as it appeared hours ago.

by rob miners

that are missing but for awhile now a few of my contacts don't show up at all. Santee and Boxie haven't shown up for ages.
The thing that really irritates me the most is losing track of posts. By the time that I find them sometimes the OP has replied and days have passed in the meantime and I'm sure that the OP must think that we have abandoned them. Then there is the problems with the Thumbs. It sometimes takes forever to work out where they came from. EOR

by deepsand

As for losing track of recent thread activity, the fact that posts are marked "New" for a fixed 24 hr. period only exacerbates the problem.

Perhaps a color coded flag might here serve, with the word "New" being in 1 of 3 distinctly different colors to indicate, for example, within the past 24 hr., 24-48 hr. old, & 48-72 hr. old. This way we could find the oldest "New" posts more readily before the "New" flag vanishes.

As it is now, I'm often forced to do a search by Date of Post in order to make sure that I've not missed something of import.

by rob miners

you can get a search to work. I had someone contact me the other day through a PM but they didn't reference the post that they were talking about. No worries I thought I will just do a search on the username and check their posts. The name will come up but there is no information to go with it. I eventually found (Ctrl + F) it by going through the posts that I subscribe to as it will indicate the username, I found it on the third page. I like the search feature in IE8 as you can see how many hits you get as they show up to the right of Options. If there are no hits you go to the next page and so on.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

A number of my contacts don't show ever, in spite of my knowing they're online because they're posting. And some show sometimes and not others. And I know they're there because they're posting.
Weird.

by rob miners

if the contacts weren't showing you could check the dropdown box and they would show up in there. That doesn't happen anymore.

by deepsand

you can't find any sign of their even having posted to a thread that you have.

I've countless case where I've replied asking what it is that they're talking about, with [b]zero[/b] responses to date! Makes one wonder why they wasted their time, let alone yours.