Trouble staying logged in

[ebow]

I'm having trouble staying logged in to the Mac OS X Hints site. I log in, and within a day or two, when I visit the site it's back to default, with login fields blank.

I guess there's two possibilities: 1) I need to delete my macosxhints.com cookies, or 2) by using ChimeraKnight to update Chimera every other day or so I'm losing some but not all of my cookies regularly.

If I need to delete a cookie or two, how do I go about that for Chimera? I've only really had to fight with cookies on Windows, where IE has them all laid out in a zillion files you can manually remove. Chimera has a file that contains a warning about tinkering with it. Is an app like "Bad Cookie" the answer?

thanks!
ebow

[griffman]

Make sure you set your prefs (in Profile) to remember you for as long as you wish -- up to a year. I believe it defaults to a couple of days...

-rob.

[ebow]

Ah, so that was the problem: it was set to 1 hour for me. Thanks!

[malson]

I'm having trouble with this too on the main page. I have set my prefs to stay logged in for 1 year but each time I quit IE, it seems to lose the settings. Now, this isn't a big deal but I do like the new templates as opposed to the old site style ;)

[dclosson]

Delete all cookies associated with this site - then re-login and set your preferences. Your cookies will be set fresh, and should "stick". This solved the problem for me.

[griffman]

Yep, if you don't delete the cookies, you may still have an 'old' macosxhints.com cookie on your hard drive. This will prevent the 'new' cookies from being placed.

The old site used one cookie; the new site has four. If you see only one on your machine, it's probably from the old site.

-rob.