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    1. [PACHESTE] question about how to use myfamily.com
    2. Dora Smith
    3. I'm posting this to a couple of the larger lists where there might be people who know the answer to this. My family wanted a private site (they're peculiar), so I got a site at myfamily.com. But I'm having trouble using the filing cabinet. I'm also having trouble getting clear and specific answers out of their support people. I wonder if anyone on these lists has or has had sites at myfamily.com. And generally how well satisfied they've been with myfamily.com. I want to have categories of files in the filing cabinet. You know, like a folder for GEDCOM's, and a folder for recipes, and a folder for articles about what mental illness is, and all of that. I had two problems. First, all of the files are displaying on the site's HOME page - or rather, four of them, but any four. When you click on either filing cabinet or files, you don't get a list of your category folders. You get ALL of the files, listed any old way. One is then supposed to click on either a drop menu to pick a category, without even having foreknowledge of what the categories are, or "categories" to go to a list of categories, and if you then click on a particular category you get a list of the articles in that category. That is going to confuse the bejeezus out of all of my family unless I can find a way to either make it display categories instead of files under filing cabinet on the home page, or directly display categories when you click on filing cabinet, or atleast display the articles organized by category. Second, I had trouble uploading my 24 articles on mental illness to the mental health category. I clicked on that category, and it displayed my empty folder. Then I clicked on upload files or wahtever, and got a form to upload about nine files at a time, which I did. But none of them uploaded into the mental health folder. They uploaded into the all files category. Then I had to individually edit each file, which is a two step process and you have to tell it all sorts of extraneous and repetitive info about each one, like for instance the name of the file owner all over again. Then when you click on mental health folder, those files all appear in that category - but they still also appear in the all files category, and still ALL the files get listed when you click on the filing cabinet instead of the names of the folders, and still just any old files are listed on teh main page. I need to know how to upload my files directly to the folder I want them in - like you do at geocities, and every other site I've ever worked with. Yours, Dora __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

    08/18/2000 04:19:03