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Having a problem with the forum. Doesn't happen every time but many times when I log in and then go to write a message when I try and save the message it tells me I am not logged in and I have to log in again in order to save the message. Ideas ?
 
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What macOS and browser are you using? Have you changed any Preferences settings?
 
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Am using MacBook Pro listed below running 10.14.2 and Safari for browser. Not having this problem on any other website I go to on this system, only here.
 
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As Bob asked, have you changed any settings in Safari, especially cache/cookie settings? Also, are you checking the "Remember Me" box when signing in?

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I agree with all the others.

My practice is to Log In, always click "Remember Me", post etc, and never Log Out. So it's always there the minute I Click on the Mac Forums bookmark which I keep as a favourite in Safari. (This is in iOS as well as macOS).

But if you clean out your History without remembering to Hold Down the Option key, thereby choosing "Clear History and Keep Website Data"; or if you use any privacy apps that clears out your cookies or caches, then Mac Forums doesn't recognise you the next time and you have to Log In again with Username and PW.

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Did you change your Mac-Forums login password recently?
 
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As Bob asked, have you changed any settings in Safari, especially cache/cookie settings? Also, are you checking the "Remember Me" box when signing in?

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Have made no changes to Safari settings...have not been clicking on the remember me but my password is saved so when I click on password it puts it in.
 
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And James clearing History will also cancel login memories. Not only for this site but all.
 
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And James clearing History will also cancel login memories. Not only for this site but all.


Thanks for the reminder Harry, like after running Onyx.app that seems to get mentioned or recommended here so often to fix problems. And then needs to be reset again and remembered.





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have not been clicking on the remember me

That's your problem right there, I bet. The "remember me" is not for remembering your username and password, but to prevent you from automatically being logged out after a certain amount of time. Of course, as others have said, clearing your history will undo this, but it won't happen automatically.
 
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And James clearing History will also cancel login memories. Not only for this site but all.

I delete cookies and history quite often but this is the only website or forum I go on that I have this problem...
 
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That's your problem right there, I bet. The "remember me" is not for remembering your username and password, but to prevent you from automatically being logged out after a certain amount of time. Of course, as others have said, clearing your history will undo this, but it won't happen automatically.

Guess I will start doing that and see if it cures the problem, thanks for the hint...
 
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Guess I will start doing that and see if it cures the problem, thanks for the hint...


If you open your Keychain Access.app (Utilities folder), there should be an entry for "mac-forums" (no quotes, and you can search for using the search space) that your Mac would normally use to login to the Forum. If it's not there, then it wasn't saved or something else is possibly wrong.





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That's true, Patrick, but what James wants is to avoid having to log in at all, just go to the site and have it know that it's him. And that is done by the checkbox. As I recall, that used to then put a cookie on your system that hald information for the site and you, but the technology may have moved on from that. And if it is the cookie, that's why cleaning out Safari history forces a login again, and if you don't check the box, no cookie, so you keep being asked for it. Using keychain is certainly easy to do the login, but, again, I think what James wants is to avoid that login altogether. I only had to check the box once, and now the site knows when I am there.
 
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Don't forget Safari has a "Block all cookies" option.
 
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That's true, Patrick, but what James wants is to avoid having to log in at all,


OK, and what you say makes sense. But I don't know if one needs a cookie Or a history type tag, or which one even gets used.

What I do know, at least in my own case, if I run a utility like Onyx using its default settings, then after that, I must login and enter my password for most sites. Sometimes my login name may appear as a suggestion, but never anything like that for a password. It must always be entered.

So I really don't know where the "Remember me" option would get stored. And to be honest, I've never really looked carefully at the default settings for what Onyx is expected to do or what it clears.

At least if I cannot remember properly, it will be available in my Keychain Access.app.





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In my setup, the Keychain can provide my login information, including both the name and password. And yes, when you run any "cleaner" like OnyX, it clears out the Internet history, including any remembered logins. But unless I do that, I never have to log into any website where I've been before, including this one.
 
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But unless I do that, I never have to log into any website where I've been before, including this one.


The same goes for me, and the way I like it, and regardless of which browser I happened to be using.

They only ones that don't follow those rules are some of the access pages at Apple's sites which I find quite annoying, especially when they need both login AND password. And also again shortly after just having been at the same page if I want to get back in!! An unneeded PITA, and a waste of time and effort for our home situation and no way to disable it that I know of!!!






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