Personalized Preferences MIA after updates

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Personalized Preferences MIA after updates

I've spent quite some time personalizing my homepage - getting rid of superfluous stuff, adding a user to watch, etc.

Every time I've finally gotten it to where it's "workable", I see a notification that changes have been implemented and to use "reset to default" - which results in all my changes to have disappeared. So, I spend another 15 minutes doing it all again. And then there are more changes......

Is this how it is designed to work at this point? Or is there a way some of the changes made can be ported over?

And, I've tried to minimize or delete the widget "top users" dozens of times - it keeps coming back? What am I doing wrong there? I don't need to see the top users. I'd rather use the space for something that is useful to me.

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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 9:44 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 19, 2011 9:55 AM in response to babowa

Hi babowa,

The 'Your View' layout editor requires you to 'Publish Layout' (or something similar-I cannot check right now) to make your changes stick. This button is to the left of the 'Reset to Default' you can see.

Let me know if this is not clear.

Best wishes

John M

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Answer 2

Apr 19, 2011 10:00 AM in response to John Maisey

'Publish Layout' - contrary to what its name implies does not mean others can see your layout.

John M

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Answer 3

Apr 19, 2011 10:03 AM in response to babowa

Minimizing does not work for me either.

See:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3003976

But I can remove widgets.

John M

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babowa Author

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Apr 19, 2011 11:19 AM in response to John Maisey

Yes, I know that I have to "publish layout" to make it stick; my question is: I've got it and when there is an Apple announcement that "improvements" have been made, my layout is MIA (as in: watch user is gone, etc, etc

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Answer 5

Apr 19, 2011 11:31 AM in response to babowa

Just checking. I have not see these 'improvements' announcements as yet myself.

John M

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babowa Author

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Apr 19, 2011 11:35 AM in response to John Maisey

I had it on my homepage this morning with the instructions to click on personalize and then "reset" or something similar to implement the changes - after that, the page reverts to original defaults and I start over (I did this yesterday at least once and once this morning).

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Answer 7

Apr 19, 2011 11:38 AM in response to babowa

In that case I expect it's going to be something like you are using widgets I'm not, which were updated.

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Answer 8

Apr 19, 2011 11:51 AM in response to babowa

Were you forced to reset your page? Or could you proceed without resetting?

I didn't see that "reset to default" notification. And I've been using Your View quite a bit. I still have all of my Watch a User widgets?

Odd that those seem to have disappeared for you. I just checked my Your View again, and they are there.

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babowa Author

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Apr 19, 2011 12:01 PM in response to snifflesniffle

No, I wasn't forced to reset it and could have ignored it, but since I've been hoping for certain changes/improvements, I did - hoping the "new" look would incorporate some changes. So far - not. The only difference I could tell was the fact that my settings were gone.

Edit: After posting this, I got another one - here is what it looks like:

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Answer 10

Apr 19, 2011 12:16 PM in response to babowa

I've been adding to and changing my Your View page quite a bit and have not seen one of these pages as yet.

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babowa Author

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Apr 19, 2011 2:37 PM in response to John Maisey

Well, depending on the point of view, I'd say either you or I are obviously special - you not getting any changes and myself getting them three times in about 24+ hours. 😉

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Answer 12

Apr 19, 2011 2:40 PM in response to babowa

We're all special… in our own way.

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babowa Author

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Apr 19, 2011 2:53 PM in response to John Maisey

Of course we are......🙂

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Answer 14

Apr 19, 2011 2:54 PM in response to babowa

🙂

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MLModel

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May 18, 2011 4:08 PM in response to babowa

This discussion ended on April 19 after only one day, but the problem hasn't gone away. I just personalized my page for the first time and got the same "Status updates have been upgraded..." message. Not knowing what else to do, and having invested relatively little time in arranging my widgets (most of the time was figuring out what was available, what it did, and which I wanted), I did Reset to Default. Which it did. I recreated my layout, published it, and still get the message. Has anyone figured out (a) how to make the message go away and/or (b) how to get the updates and what they are?

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