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July 19 96 / Bits / Bug of the Month

Empty the Cache into the Trash

America Online's Web browser for the Mac doesn't support all the goodies you find in other browsers, such as RealAudio and cutting and pasting portions of a Web page to your computer, and sometimes the browser won't work at all. Users have reported that one minute the browser works fine, and the next minute, when they click on the Web icon, the pointer turns into the rotating circle, then nothing happens. Here's one possible fix.

Go into the America Online v2.6 folder, then click successively through the Online Browser/Web Files/Cache folders ( see the screen ). Select everything in the cache, then empty it into the Mac trashcan.

AOL says the browser occasionally fails because of the program's caching scheme. If you cache a bad Web page (e.g., one wher e the link is broken), the AOL browser stops working without providing any feedback to the user.

You could also fix this problem by getting another browser or another Internet service provider. At least version 2.7 of AOL for the Macintosh adds support for cut and paste.

Send yours to edejesus@bix.com !


Cut the Cache

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