Friends coming online alert not working

[lella]

I do not understand why when a friend (or one of my IDs ) logs in as available I don't get the alerts (I have both the pop up windows, the one at the bottom right and the normal dialogue box and the play a sound activated). If they come online with a predifined status or a custom made one, I can see them login.

I already wrote to yahoo, but I had some useless answer for now, saying it might be my connection or my browser which, IMHO, is a load of bollocks.

Anyone having this kind of problem?
thnx

[heartless]

Even i had this problem.. that i never got alert from a friend whenever she comes online... but later on i found out that when anyone comes from invisible mode to available mode .. u never get any alert .. i tried this & 50% time i was correct.

[lella]

Heartless
I had another couple of mails from help, tried their suggestions (from uninstalling and reinstalling to delete yahoo folder and install again) and still the alert doesnt work.
I will keep you posted on this, in case they find a miracle solution for this problem.
Of course, if it is a program fault we will have to wait until they debug it...grrrrr....with older versions this didn't happen!!

[lella]

I had this from support
As you've noticed, we're currently experiencing some technical
difficulties. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
Please be assured that we are aware of this problem and working to fix
it as quickly as possible.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Yahoo! Customer Care

I suppose they do not know what to say anymore, lol.
oh well, lets hope it will be sorted out soon

[riff_raff_50076]

Be Understanding and rememeber yahoo is a free services so some minor quirks are going to happen , Also the newest build of messanger is 1365 if you have an earlier version try uninstalling it and redownloading the newest one I understand its a pain but its free and most of the time it works .

[lella]

Riff_raff
Did you read what i wrote?

quote: tried their suggestions (from uninstalling and reinstalling to delete yahoo folder and install again)

BTW,the newest version is 5.6.0.1356 and not 1365

[riff_raff_50076]

Well all I can say is its Yahoo . thanx for correcting me

[heartless]

lella
if it was working fine with the old version .. then y dont u install old verson of yahoo messenger.. i guess it has a better facility of keeping offline messeges as well... u just need to rename a file "yupdater.exe" to "yupdat.exe" which is in "C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\yupdater.exe" & u will not get any prompt for updating it with the new version.

Enjoy !!