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Profiles:
Profiles are now
required to
post on all Forums,
in
order
to post on these forums you must have built a profile with a valid
email address. This
profile will be pass worded to prevent others posting as you and so you
wont lose your user name to someone else who creates a profile with
your name before you have.
Once
you build a profile
it must then be used on all forums. You
only need one profile that will work on all forums, it will only show your
profile in the list profiles on
forums you have an active post on.
You Must post using the exact sure name and password in your profile on
all forums, all punctuation counts and is also case sensitive on
passwords. If you receive a password in all capitols that's the way it
must be entered. you may
Profiles are based on email addresses. The Depot will only allow one
user profile per email address.
The My profile
link
is
on every forum in the navigator bar where the post a message link is.
A
password will be
sent to the email address you listed in the profile after you create your profile.
Please be sure you
allow email from thetreasuredepot.com in
your spam filters or you may not receive it.
You
can and should change this
password to something
you can
remember by using the my profile
link which will only appear
for
those that have already created a profile and
entering the password assigned in the box provided,
then entering your new password in the 2 new password box's
provided. I highly recommend this, as the password sent by the depot is
all capitols and a bunch of garbled letters.. Its simple to change if
you do it before losing it, and make it something simple you can
remember
If you
chage your email address, please be sure to edit your profile to
reflect the change or people will not be able to send email from
forums. Also you will be unable to change or reset passwords if email
has changed
Email addresses are hidden from view on forums but will use the email
in your profile to allow send mail
If you lose
your
password
use the forgot password link on any forum to reset it, you will
get a confirmation email that you must click the validation link to
reset password within 1 hour
Your profile will not
appear in the
profile list until you
make a
post on that particular forum.
If
attempting to create a
profile and its saying profile
already exists,
please read the entire error page, it will say profile is in use by
someone else or you already have a profile with your email address under a different user name,
and will tell you what name that email is assigned to.. you just need to reset password.. see above
If you are trying to
create one
that
someone
else has already used ( in that case try using another name), or you
previously posted on a forum using a password or previously created a
profile. In the latter case you will need your password reset to
post, see above.
Passwords
When you
create a profile
on any of the forums a password will be emailed to the email address
you put in your profile, so make sure you check your spam
folders if you don't receive it within 5 minutes.
When you receive your first password it will generally be in all
capitol letters, the passwords are case sensitive and must be entered
exactly as sent. You can change you password to what ever you want by
editing your profile, entering the sent password in the box provided
and entering your new one twice in the two (new) boxes provided in the
form. When you make your first post be sure
to click save password so it will be saved in your cookies that way
you
will not have to enter it with each post. Once you create a profile
no-one will be able to post using your name as saved without that
password.
Do
Not use password or form
managers on any browser, if your
browser asks if you would like to save your password for this site,
reply never for this site, as it will cause you problems. If
you
already
replied yes and popups are appearing then you need to delete any
references to the depot in your password manager. You can save your
password in your cookie files by simply checking the save password box
when you make a post.
Any other issues please email the using the trouble report link on forum with the exact user name you
post with.
Banned
IP's If you are getting messages you are banned
from posting
or
viewing the
forums, and feel you have done nothing to be on the banned list, you
are
probably the victim of having the same ISP as someone who has
been banned.
To get off the banned list you must Email
Page
loading problems:
If you are experiencing problems with loading pages or
not
being able
to access certain pages please try the following tip before e-mailing
me
with your problem. I get a lot of mail every week especially from AOL
users
and this method fixes the problem 99% of the time. With the amount of
updating
we do on this site especially on the find of the month page, it is
often
necessary to clear your browser cache to get the a fresh download of
the
latest pages.
First try this:
Hold down the "shift" key
on your keyboard and
while you
are still holding it down click "refresh" or "reload" on your browser
tool
bar. This will force a fresh download from the server instead of using
your cached pages that may not be updated with the latest additions.
If that fails you
can try to clear your
cache. You
will not loose any cookies or important files by clearing your cache
but
it will force a fresh download for any new pages you go to after that.
Clearing
Browser Cache
To Clear Cache, do a google
search on clearing cache from the specific browser your using, Internet
Expolrer, Firefox, Opera etc etc
Cookies:
Its
possible that at times your
cookies
may get
corrupted, causing strange errors, like pre loading the wrong
passwords or email address etc. To
clear the
cookies,
use the help function of the browser you are using and search on
cookies
to and find out how to delete them. Or do a google search
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