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Yodlei

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Anyone else have this problem or is it just me??? I lurk a lot but not logged in very often. Wondered if password is made dead after a certain amount of time.

I've also had it take after the 2nd time on a few occasions.

Thx for any replies.

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If the forum has been backed up,  sometimes that might happen.  I usually have to try and log in a few times, but usually on the 2nd attempt it works.

There have been a couple of rare occasions it took on the 3rd try.

But I can be off the forums for quite some time, and for the most part I haven't really had any issues coming back and logging in, unless I changed my password and didn't update the auto-logon with my new info.

But that was my (USER) error, not the forums.  I've logged into a lot of forums I haven't accessed in several years and was still able to log in.

Are you sure your auto-logon info was updated the last time you made any changes for logging in?  As that's what this actually sounds like to me.

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2 hours ago, Orville said:

If the forum has been backed up,  sometimes that might happen.  I usually have to try and log in a few times, but usually on the 2nd attempt it works.

There have been a couple of rare occasions it took on the 3rd try.

But I can be off the forums for quite some time, and for the most part I haven't really had any issues coming back and logging in, unless I changed my password and didn't update the auto-logon with my new info.

But that was my (USER) error, not the forums.  I've logged into a lot of forums I haven't accessed in several years and was still able to log in.

Are you sure your auto-logon info was updated the last time you made any changes for logging in?  As that's what this actually sounds like to me.

Auto-logon? I just enter user name & password. Tried 3 times & for once, it didn't warn me of a lockout after so many times but I just changed my password. Don't think I should have to do that almost every time though but no biggie....just a little aggravating.

BTW, I have had 1 or 2 sites I haven't visited for quite some time do this but it's rare.

Thx for the reply, Orville!

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4 hours ago, Yodlei said:

I lurk a lot but not logged in very often. Wondered if password is made dead after a certain amount of time.

It absolutely SHOULD log you out after some amount of time - particularly inactivity.  How long that is, I have no idea. 

 

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3 hours ago, k6ccc said:

 

It absolutely SHOULD log you out after some amount of time - particularly inactivity.  How long that is, I have no idea. 

 

If you choose "keep me signed in", it won't log you out until an update to the forums are done.

I've been logged into the forum, even when I'm off-line.  If I move to another device, I'm still logged in, as I chose "stay signed in" when I set up my auto login credentials up in Google or in the Browser I use, Chrome on my Cell, Firefox on my older Windows 7 HE computer.

Only time I've usually had to login is when the forums get a software update.  Other than that, I rarely have to sign in on here.  And it's even more rare for me to get logged off, and have to log back in, except for forum updates and occasionally forum backups.

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5 hours ago, Yodlei said:

Auto-logon? I just enter user name & password. Tried 3 times & for once, it didn't warn me of a lockout after so many times but I just changed my password. Don't think I should have to do that almost every time though but no biggie....just a little aggravating.

BTW, I have had 1 or 2 sites I haven't visited for quite some time do this but it's rare.

Thx for the reply, Orville!

Auto logins are set up in a Google Password account(part of Google) or when you log into a site in your computer through a browser, it may ask you to save user ID and password, if you click no, you have to enter them manually every time you visit a site.  If you click "yes", it saves your user ID and password in an encrypted area of the browser. 

Some browsers like Firefox, the one I use on my desktop computer allows me to set a password for the browser and I have to enter that password manually every time I want to go in and view the site user ID and password, edit the info if changes have been made, but didn't update the info when asked if I wanted to save the new/updated info I had physically changed on the site.

It just saves me from keeping a written list of passwords and user IDs that could be picked up, copied, photographed.  And I have a lot of different sites and passwords.  Writing all those down would be a major undertaking.

Been using Firefox like this for many, many years.  Have never had any problems either, nor with my Google Passwords account, been using them for quite a few years, not as long as Firefox.   But never had any issues with any being compromised.

But if you lose your main browser password, there is no way to retrieve it, or get back into the browser, even if installed as a brand new copy, it will still want that forgotten password. And there is no way to reset it either, not without the original password.

Don't know if all browsers are like that, as I only have it set for my desktop browser only, which is Firefox.

Google Passwords seems to work a little differently, as I can change or reset a password for any account, including my Google Password account by answering some questions I set up within Google for retrieving or resetting my main Google Password.

Hope all this wasn't too confusing to you.  I know it was a little to me until I got used to using the auto login and auto form fill options.

But don't want to overwhelm you with the auto forms yet, hard enough to get through how auto login works and is set up.

EDIT: You will need to enter your browser password every time you open your browser to use the Auto Login or Auto Form Fill in options.  You can skip this step, by closing the password popup box when Firefox starts, but then you have to type in everything at each login site manually.  Again this is how Firefox works on my desktop, can't say for other browsers.

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10 hours ago, Orville said:

Auto logins are set up in a Google Password account(part of Google) or when you log into a site in your computer through a browser, it may ask you to save user ID and password, if you click no, you have to enter them manually every time you visit a site.  If you click "yes", it saves your user ID and password in an encrypted area of the browser. 

Some browsers like Firefox, the one I use on my desktop computer allows me to set a password for the browser and I have to enter that password manually every time I want to go in and view the site user ID and password, edit the info if changes have been made, but didn't update the info when asked if I wanted to save the new/updated info I had physically changed on the site.

It just saves me from keeping a written list of passwords and user IDs that could be picked up, copied, photographed.  And I have a lot of different sites and passwords.  Writing all those down would be a major undertaking.

Been using Firefox like this for many, many years.  Have never had any problems either, nor with my Google Passwords account, been using them for quite a few years, not as long as Firefox.   But never had any issues with any being compromised.

But if you lose your main browser password, there is no way to retrieve it, or get back into the browser, even if installed as a brand new copy, it will still want that forgotten password. And there is no way to reset it either, not without the original password.

Don't know if all browsers are like that, as I only have it set for my desktop browser only, which is Firefox.

Google Passwords seems to work a little differently, as I can change or reset a password for any account, including my Google Password account by answering some questions I set up within Google for retrieving or resetting my main Google Password.

Hope all this wasn't too confusing to you.  I know it was a little to me until I got used to using the auto login and auto form fill options.

But don't want to overwhelm you with the auto forms yet, hard enough to get through how auto login works and is set up.

EDIT: You will need to enter your browser password every time you open your browser to use the Auto Login or Auto Form Fill in options.  You can skip this step, by closing the password popup box when Firefox starts, but then you have to type in everything at each login site manually.  Again this is how Firefox works on my desktop, can't say for other browsers.

Thanks for the reply but I never want to stay logged in anywhere & always uncheck the "keep me logged in" box. I don't mind entering a password; I just want it to take it when I do without having to change it most times. I can see if I didn't logon in year(s) but a couple of weeks or month is a PITA. :) Thanks again!! (BTW, Use Firefox w/Duck, Duck, Go Browser on Win7 desktop).

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11 hours ago, Yodlei said:

I don't mind entering a password; I just want it to take it when I do without having to change it most times.

I've seen this happen one other time. The person somehow had two different password managers running (I forget which ones) and one of them always put in the password it had, while the person was updating their 'normal' one. Thus the new password never had a chance to be put in, because of the password manager conflict.

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7 hours ago, ItsMeBobO said:

Windows 7 support ended January 2020

Quite aware, but the computer that's running Windows 7 can't be upgraded to Win 10(which is also soon to be not supported) or Windows 11.   So it's stuck with what it has on it.  And it's not very easily upgradable with a new motherboard either.

It's my sequencing computer, so it'll be running 4.4.16 Pro, and eventually I'll get 6.3.x installed on the Win 11 laptop, and just transfer my sequences over to the laptop, load them into 6.3.x and convert them.   Once I figure out how to create the visualizer profiles after I get 6.3.x PRO installed on it.

Won't be this year(2024), had hoped to do that, but hopefully for 2025, that is if I'm still able to do a show.

The way my health and things are going, 2024 might just be my last year of doing any light shows.

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