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Cannot Get to The Forums Area - Jeff/Nate

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1. Broken Arrow Says:
   April 28th, 2008 at 06:24 am
   Interesting!
   
   The forums are working for us there....
   
   Have you tried clearing up the cache?
   
   I'll link this blog post in the forum, so they'll see it there as well.

2. campfrugal Says:
   April 28th, 2008 at 06:52 am
   Thanks BA. Umm, what's the cache?

3. campfrugal Says:
   April 28th, 2008 at 06:56 am
   Okay. For the last week to 10 days, I kept getting the same error message above. I just tried again, and low and behold, the links work. I was able to get to the forums and such. What the h#@*. I think BA must have scarred off the error message guy on my blog. Thanks.

4. Broken Arrow Says:
   April 28th, 2008 at 07:08 am
   Uh.. heheh, I don't know about that.
   
   Well, the web browser typically pulls information off the internet, but not always. They also store much of this information on the local hard drive, because the hard drive is typically faster than internet.
   
   And depending on your setting, if your web browser does not detect change, it will continue to pull the information off the hard drive rather than the web. Again, for the sake of speed.
   
   There are some rare instances when you can pull web pages that contains error or pull the web pages unsuccessfully. In which case, your computer has a bad web page stored in the hard drive that it keeps accessing, and perhaps not allowing you to get through.
   
   To fix that, you would want to clear that hard drive cache, which would force the web browser to pull new pages from the internet instead.
   
   Sorry for the rambling. The short answer for FireFox is to go to Tools menu -> Privacy tab -> "Settings" in Private Data field, and make sure "cache" is checked. Uncheck stuff you don't want. Then click the button below it and to clear what you've checked.
   
   The short answer for Internet Explorer is Tools Menu -> Internet Options -> General tab, then click on "Delete Files" tab. Go ahead and clear the offline stuff too.
   
   Hopefully, that will do it.

5. campfrugal Says:
   April 28th, 2008 at 07:15 am
   Alright. I will have to get to that fairly soon. Thanks again BA. You have done your good deeds for the day.

6. jeffrey Says:
   April 28th, 2008 at 03:47 pm
   You aren't the only one that has been having this problem (my email has quite a few similar stories today). Have sent to Nate and hopefully we can figure out the issue.

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