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As described in another thread, after the recent changes my identity was changed without my intervention and without any re login to Claudio_González, a change that had several other side effects. I saw this in all three browsers that I have easily available: Safari/Vista, Explorer/Vista and Firefox/Mac. The problem disappeared by itself in the two latter browsers, and it was difficult to solve in the first, where I finally managed to login correctly at around 12:30 today (all times local, GTM-4). However, when I used my bookmark at about 16:10 to get into this forum using Safari, I found that I had been logged out, but I was -and still am- logged if I come in using Explorer or Firefox.I did check the Remember Me button when I finally managed to log in correctly in Safari, and my computer date shows as November 18, 2009 (not 2039). I opened and closed Safari several times in these less than four hours, coming in and out of these forums, same as I did with the other two browsers, so the

Hello, I'm an air ambulance pilot and I'm donating several desktop pcs to a rural school in a mountainous province in the Philippines. I bought them by bulk in Hong Kong and some of them are low end. I was wondering what version of adobe reader works well with low end pcs? The latest versions make the low end pcs crawl in performance.

In the latest reincarnation, after days of lousy response, inserting returns in lines on it's own volition, it also inserts a lot of crap in quotes, it no longer allows the upload of images that were allowed a few days ago, but are not longer accepted,the insertion of God knows how much crap in the HTML code, this looks like a major catastrophe. Not only user names were modified, sometimes beyond recognition, threads disappeared, the search function that does anything BUT search, but not being able to post normal content and screenshots is a major handicap.Adobe, get your act together and get us some forum software that works!

About some of the new problems in these forums, Jochem wrote in another thread (http://forums.adobe.com/message/2399480#2399480)I figured out what is going on. As soon as you log in your profile settings are partially reset. At the very least your "Last Name" is set to "Hide", not sure which other profile settings are reset when you log in.As for me one of the main problems is that I was given a new identity, I decided to give this a try. Therefore, I used the "Sign out" button of the top row, logged in again using my normal ID and password, and found that apparently there had been no change in the forums. The only apparent change was that I am now welcomed as "Claudio González" in the rop row, but I am still logged in as "Claudio_González" in here:As reported in other threads, the information in my new profile is wrong, and I don't know if, once these new problems get solved -if they ever do- the data such as posts count of this new identity will be merged in my old, normal identity.

A thread on this error has just been closed because it degraded into a childish "Mac vs PC" fight. Also, many persons experiencing this error had been reporting the same observations over and over again.For the benefit of all those wanting to report anything on Error 404, I am quoting the following excerpt from this message of the locked thread, http://forums.adobe.com/message/2276574#2276574:The answer to the original question about 404 errors has been given along time ago, but I'll repeat it here for you:Jive bug CS-12987 'jsessionids printed in the middle of "Last Post" linkwhen anonymous browsing turned on' was fixed in ClearSpace release 2.5.13.Please report the issue again if you continue to experience this afterAdobe has been upgraded to ClearSpace 2.5.13 or later.As the bug was fixed "a long time ago" and we are still using version 2.5.7 of ClearSpace -as can be read at the bottom of the page- please refrain from reporting 404 errors until the upgrade comes. Thank you for your

Somehow I ended up with two accounts.  Can I merge the two together so my question show up under one name?

Well, around the maintenance stoppage and slowdowns, all the rest was fine this morning.Now, I have become someone else. I only have 4 posts now, instead of the 12,500 that I had this morning. I have lost my salamis and also 6,500 points. My avatar is gone, my screen name is gone - regardless of what my Profile says, and my e-mail address, while valid, has changed in my Profile.Man am I confused. I don't even know who I am anymore.I guess that it's time to contact Adobe and try to get all accounts consolidated - again. It worked last time, but who knows what it will take this time around.Hunt

I have always asked for scheduled maintenances to be announced, and I am very happy when they are but, is this announcement still necessary?

None of the two ways that I know of going to the last message in a thread is working for me in this one:http://forums.adobe.com/message/2377563?tstart=0#2377563I have tried in Firefox/Mac and in Safari/Vista.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2364020#2364020Maybe it is an innocent topic; maybe not. Perhaps a moderator may want to review or keep a closer eye on it.With identity theft such a serious matter, I wonder why this topic exists and why some of our more helpful posters turned off their 'suspicious activity filter' to offer help in discovering information that was not supposed to be discovered.(I tried to click the 'report abuse' link for the entire thread but after submitting the comment describing the abuse, the following error is returned: "An unexpected error has occurred")

Hello,i tried today to post a reply to someone`s message t the forums but when i tried to attach 2 .php files i get unexpected error message and prevented me from posting the reply.but when i delete or reloaded the page, i shows me an error message again, but the reply was posted without letting me know!hope you can find a quick fix for that!__Best RegardsWaleed Barakat[signature deleted by host]

Navigation in these forums is very slow even when everything is working as planned, so it's very annoying to have to open a thread to find that it has been locked. The icon of a lock, even [Locked] at the beginning of the thread title would be enough. Surely it cannot be too difficult?

Last night I was kicked out immediately after posting a message (that was lucky!). When I tried to log in, I received the standard error message stating that the requested page was temporarily not available. I thought the forums were down, but they weren't. I could go anywhere I wanted within them, and do everything an unregistered user can do, but the login page was still unavailable when I went to bed.I don't recall have seen this reported, so I wonder if this has only happened this time, and to me.

It is an improvement of the greatest magnitude which promises to bring the internet forums to new usefulness.Before now, I would have to go through re-logging in and, over dozens of trys, I was finally able to log on to the forums. This however only lasted until I moved away from the forums for even a second. Then I would have to re-log onto the forums. All of that made it impossible to retain a train of thought or to contribute anything to the real purpose of these forums.Now there is hope. I did not have to re-log on this morning as it stayed logged on overnight. This is a first in the months since the working forums were dumped in favor of the not working forums.Never give up hope.Ken

A couple of days ago I posted a question on the Acrobat forum and turned on email notification.  I turned email notification off about 5 hours ago and I'm still getting them.The prompt on my Acrobat forum screen says "Receive email notifications" so email notifications appear to be turned off.  But I'm still getting them.

I am not sure why they changed it since it worked fine, and now it is a real pain to try and search a specific forum such as Indesign. It looks like you have to click on 'options' and scroll down the list to select the forum, which is *very difficult* in the tiny scroll box.I am surprised a company who obviously puts a lot of thought into design of their products would have such an ill conceived feature.  or am I missing something?

The OP here needs to be banned http://forums.adobe.com/thread/519561?tstart=0

I susbscribe to messages that I post or that I have responded to, but suddenly, I'me getting every message that's posted to the Illustrator forum. Make it stop!

Every time I try to open a pdf file the internet shuts down. And I am unable to open pdf files. This is tough because it is part of business .  The message I get is "Adobe 9.2 stop working". Is there anyone who could help me figure this out?

I have the free downloadable version of Adobe Reader 9 and I have fillable forms that are in pdf Adobe format that I purchased on the internet, but I cannot fill in the forms even though it says"Filling of form fields: Allowed"  in theDocument-- Security--- Properties.  How can I edit these forms in PDF? Any help would be very much appreciated.

I just want to update 1 cs3 product to cs4. If i do does it make all my other cs3 products to stop working?

Hello. I'm looking for this product. Can anybody help me ????Tanks !!!

I have uploaded elements 8 to windows 7 ..having used Vista before... Now my problem is that I cannot share my pictures via email or other means as Adobe 8 does not recognise my email address which is .....@tinyworld.co.uk (the end user) .. it says that I have to default or something like this I am a photographer and not a computer wizard.. I need to share these pictures ... I have contacted adobe case 181276015 and they blame micrtosoft .. any solutions please as I need to operate as a photographer and Elements 7 used tyo work on Vista but wilth uploading ALL IS LOST.. Thanks

Once upon a Time the Adobe Photoshop Forum was a community.  A lot like a family.  There were members who participated daily for a decade or more. Friends. Friends who are now gone, thanks to Jive ware.A great many of us met one another face-to-face.  Even more have talked on the phone.  We celebrated births of children, new houses, new jobs.  We commiserated over lost jobs, broken marriages, deaths.  We kept up with one another's birthdays.  We had a round robin Christmas card exchange.  Our community, though online, was a real community with daily exchanges, dear friends, like family.  Now gone.  Like a death of the family.We shared vibrant, energized discussions of how to improve one’s skills using Photoshop.  What one person does not know, another does.  Or did.  The knowledge shared on the Photoshop forum of this day is dismal in comparison.I personally have owned Dreamweaver about as long as I have owned Photoshop,