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[2wheels]

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Hi Ben,

In 'Settings' I have this message;

"New Private Messages (6"

Not so; I have read all my pm's.

Regards,
Ron

[Admin001]

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Hi Ron

New Posts - I wrote a note on this earlier.

Here's the secret - you're starting with a situation where everything is new, because the software does not "know" anything about your previous reading habits.

What you need to do is go to the Forum Actions menu, and select "Mark Forums Read." That resets your counters to zero by ensuring that the system thinks you've read every post ever made.

From that point onwards, the posts you've read are logged in the database, allowing accurate display of Whats New / Unread.

In addition to that, this remains consistent between different computers, unlike the previous system which used cookie-based record keeping.

I remain optimistic that this also applies to the Messages - but no guarantee. Bottom line is, there's no way of transfering your previous actions from the old system to the new... To me, it was a miracle that so much was able to be moved across with with so few problems ensuing.

Cheers

Ben