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  1. DRAFT MAIL LOADES MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE SAME DRAFT, AT THE SAME TIME???

    POSTED AUG 1, 2019
    DRAFT EMAIL OPENS MULTIPLE COPIES OF SAME SAVED EMAIL.
    "DRAFT FOLDER: IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY CLICK ON EMAIL "WHICH IS ALREADY OPENED & IS BEING EDITED" IT OPENS "2ND" "UNEDITED VERSION" WHICH FORCES USER TO REVIEW 2 PAGES AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE IS NEWEST VERSION =
    NEW CLICK SHOULD JUST BRING UP OPENED COPY. WHICH IS ALREADY BEING EDITED.
    IT DOES NOT.
    IT OPENS A SAME EMAIL AGAIN, UNEDITED SAVED VERSION.+ EDITED VERSION. VERY TIME CONSUMING TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH IS WHICH..

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  2. More trouble with sending email

    What is this? When I try to email It says "mail failed to send due to error 440:13004".

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  3. When I send an email from either of my group after the email is sent each member of that particular group email address appears under my sin

    When I send an email from either of my group after the email is sent each member of that particular group email address appears under my single contact list (Email address only) Consequently I have my single person email address with their name and email address and all of the email address only from the group. If I delete the email addresses which I did and when I looked under the group there were no email address under that group. I have called 3 times about. Just got on the telephone after holding the line for 25 Mins and the…

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  4. When I send an email from either of my group after the email is sent each member of that particular group email address appears under my sin

    When I send an email from either of my group after the email is sent each member of that particular group email address appears under my single contact list (Email address only) Consequently I have my single person email address with their name and email address and all of the email address only from the group. If I delete the email addresses which I did and when I looked under the group there were no email address under that group. I have called 3 times about. Just got on the telephone after holding the line for 25 Mins and the…

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  5. chat room

    Every time I go into a chat room after I type a few sentence I get frozen out. I need to go out then back in then it happres again. This happens on both my computers. Any suggetions

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  6. AOL Portfolio Manager Not Working

    Portfolio Manager is not working today. ALL stocks in portfolio show no gains or losses. Portfolio page looks like a very old page. I have checked on two different computers with different IP addresses, so it's not my cookies.

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  7. How can I delete the AOL Home page - I have had it with 15 pages to get the end of a story - to find nothing like the story.

    How do I delete the AOL News welcome Icon from my homepage? I have had it with scrolling through dozens of pages to try and read a story often to find it had nothing to do with the story heading. I NEVER EVER look at the advertisements - even if I saw something there I wouldn't open it on principle. HOW CAN I DELETE THE NEWS ICON? Has a little house on the Icon. PLEASE SOMEONE ADVISE ME HOW.,

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  8. AOL and Win 11 issue.

    My AOL email is margetill@aol.com and akknothead@aol.com .
    Desktop Gold is not working in Win 11. I have 2 accounts that i use on 2 different computers. Both Win 11. Both are facing the same issue.
    Whenever, i signin, after entering my ID and password, i get a message, welcome, you got mail, and thats it. everything freezes. AOL desktop gold does not respond. I only see the blue desktop screen with all the options like file, edit =, mail, read, write etc. But can not click on them. I have to end task the AOL in taskmanager.
    Its…

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  9. Chat rooms Problems

    Have AOL Tech support do there job and support it's been over 5 days and no response, my screen name is stuck in two chat rooms and will not clear. All I am told is we can't fix it or wait for a new update, they can not tell me when that would even happen. This should be a easy fix on there end and I get the round around when I try to ask for help!

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    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    Thank you for reporting this. We will have our engineers investigate the issue. Please send a bug report. To do that, please follow these steps:

    1. Open AOL Desktop Gold.
    2. Click on Help on the top right, and select Report a Bug from the drop-down menu.
    3. Type a short description of the problem, and click Send.

  10. AOLs "MY FAVORITE PLACES" recent change was an immediate BUST, wasn't it?

    The recent change to supposedly improve the "MY FAVORITE PLACES" bookmark list WENT BUST almost immediately. You'd think the AOL Gold tech idiots would have better things to do than experiment with stupid program changes at our time and expense. They spend most of their time sitting there looking busy to otherwise justify their positions and jobs. Amazing they actually think they are in some type of career position at AOL doing stupid kid computer stuff. Idiots. If AOL really wants to "Improve your AOL Desktop Gold experience", there is a whole list of fixes, improvements and additions needed you…

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  11. HEY, AOL TECHS PLEASE REMOVE THE MICROSOFT.NET FRAMEWORK 4.8 "UPGRADE"JAMMING LINK YOU PUT IN MY AOL GOLD

    I'M A PAYING CUSTOMER AND YOU ARE COMMITTING AN ILLEGAL ACT AND BREAKING THE LAW BY JAMMING A PAID FOR PROGRAM AND PRODUCT, BY FORCING, REQUIRING USER TO "CANCEL" THIS AOL POPUP BEFORE THEY CAN CONTINUE OR MOVE ON TO ANY FUNCTION IN THE AOL GOLD PROGRAM. I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS. i DON'T WANT IT, i WONT USE IT AND AOL IS BEING ILLEGALLY INVASIVE BY ADDING THIS TO ITS CUSTOMER USE REQUIREMENTS.

    I EXPECT A BIG FAT CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT WILL PROBABLY BE COMING TO AOL BECAUSE OF YOUR CRIMINAL, ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL BUSINESS CONDUCT BY FORCING CUSTOMERS TO…

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  12. Spam settings are absolutely garbage. I am getting SPAM sent to me by my own email address explain this AOL?

    AOL Spam settings are absolutely garbage. I am getting SPAM sent to me by my own email address, explain this AOL? Your SPAM settings should allow users to manage email addresses as they see fit. What happened to we could easily identify official AOL mail by the colored ICON/ subject line? Now I get Spam from an official looking AOL email address along with my own email address and the Spam controls will not update any new addresses I try to block.

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  13. Why can’t we access old email on our PCs instead of having to log into AOL Gold?

    I spent over two hours with your techs today trying to make sure that I could download my archived AOL emails to my PC. I have 20 years worth! Only after the full two hours did they finally admit that there was no way to download them on to your PC. You can only access them from inside the desktop software. AOL has effectively taken ******* of thousands of my emails. They’re doing this to everyone. In an age where we’re all the more concerned with our personal privacy, how can AOL justify this? The only possible reason this…

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    1 comment  ·  Mail  ·  Admin →

    You can now save a copy of your emails as a PDF or Text file on your computer, which can be accessed outside of the AOL Desktop Gold.

    To do this, open an email from your mailbox, then click on File on the top left and select Save from the drop-down menu. You can type a name for the file in the “File Name” box, select the location where you want to save it, and finally click on Save in the bottom right.

    Please note that you can save one email at a time.

  14. WHY DO I HAVE HALF SCREEN WHEN I AM TRYING TO READ A ARTICLE

    WHY DO I HAVE A HALF SCREEN WHEN I AM TRYING TO READ A ARTICLE PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION

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  15. get rid of aol gold & go back to aol 9.8.2

    go back to aol 9.8.2, aol gold is a joke, really it is terrible in the way you set it up. lost a lot of good things from aol 9.8.2. where did you get your techs.
    color chart is wacky and I sure don't like it
    also fonts, I want the aol 9.8.2 fonts back your color chart throw away and bring back aol 9.8.2 color chart.

    also when i copy a page from a web site and the paste it into the "write" section and then compose as plain text it crams it all together with no separation between…

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    Responded  ·  Miha responded

    Thank you for your feedback, will send it over to the AOL Gold desktop team, making sure the features you mentioned become a priority and will be added in the future releases. Currently, we don’t have an estimated time frame, but we hope the majority of the features our members are asking for will be implemented soon.

  16. AOL SUPPORT

    I PAY 4 AOL.....NEEDED A TECH TO HELP ME WITH DOWNLOADING AOL TO A NEW COMPUTER BUT THEY DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE.....FORGOT THE PASSWORD & COULDN'T GET ANY HELP WITH THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IN THE **** DO WE PAY U FOR ??????????????????????????????

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  17. All Mail is Spam

    I have reported this as a bug and it has been tackled by "tech Support" ... no help ... ALL of my email is routed to SPAM ...the problem must be on the AOL Server because my alt email is unaffected and AOL.com is also affected,

    ALSO When I open Settings - Mail I get the following inane message: "We see to be having some trouble sending this request. Please wait try again in 5 minutes. Code: Forbidden."

    I have done everything "Tech Support" directed .. no help ...

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  18. All these comments & suggestions are fine. Problem is AOL ignores commenting at all to them. I have had problem downloading "Free McAfee" b

    All these comments & suggestions are fine. Problem is AOL ignores commenting at all to them. I have had problem downloading "Free McAfee" (computer cannot) and spelling dictionary saves nothing when "Save To Dictionary" clicked. They have been "Working On It" for months now and ignore commenting when I email or write asking when; etc! Have to call and they cannot help or supply any answer of truth or value. Only thing working consistently is AOL collecting money from us. Welcome Screen for long time also says no local news available. A little AOL customer care (actually shown) would…

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  19. Yellow banner telling us to upgrade windows 7

    We have a yellow banner saying "Microsoft has ended support for this version of Windows." extra extra extra.

    I majored in computer networking so I know that this is just microsoft talking to us, but why do we have to be constantly reminded to upgrade windows 7.

    I have no plans to move to either windows 8, windows 10 or windows 11. I don't like any of them. No offense to anyone that does.

    Before we got a popup telling us the same thing, now it's a yellow banner.

    There should be an option to not display this banner so…

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  20. JUST RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM AOL

    it stated that sign on problems have all been resolved + forum comments are closed - took 6 attempts to sign in just now - enter pass word + nothing happens at all - happens on different computers + isp's - guess email was just another lip service , do nothing response from AOL GOLD - MSN , YAHOO , + all other sign ons are working properly !

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    I would like to have one of our Technical Support Agents investigate the cause of this issue. Please call us at 1-888-265-3733.

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