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Melin
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form fill keeps using old email address

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hi camino forum,

Form-fill keeps automatically filling in certain website forms with an old e-mail address that i no longer use.
It is an email address that is not and never was in my "me" card on my Mac.
I did see this on the Camino FAQ:

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Q. Does Camino support “form fill”?
A. Camino can fill in certain non-password forms using information stored in the “Me” card in Address Book. To have Camino fill out a form using this information, choose Fill Form from the Edit menu or add the Fill Form button to your toolbar. Camino can also auto-fill login and password forms using information saved in the Keychain.
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I cleared history, emptied cache, deleted keychain files associated with the website (unless it's pulling from some other keychain), tried ctrl-delete...
Anyway, any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
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Did you try moving aside the Address Book database, or changing the Me card to a different card?

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cflawson wrote:Did you try moving aside the Address Book database, or changing the Me card to a different card?

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i'm sorry... could you elaborate a little on what that would entail?

thanks.
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hi cf
i tried both those things... and neither worked.
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If you move aside the entire ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book/ folder and re-launch Camino, what happens when you try to auto-fill something?

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i think i might have solved this...
it was a page that was automatically filling...
I was trying different things and a window eventually dropped down asking if i wanted to use old or new values (?) (i forgot exactly... sorry my brain is mush right now)
anyway, it might be solved, if not, I'll try what you suggest and start again.

Thanks thanks thanks :)
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That's the keychain, and not form-fill.

You should be able to search your keychain for the site name and figure out where the bad data is. (Worst-case, just delete any keychain entries related to that site and re-enter the proper username and password next time you visit the site.)

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cl
yeah... it's not solved
i think what i've been talking about is actually considered "autocomplete".
i found a mozillaZine article called "Deleting autocomplete entries" that talks about deleting the entry that was previously entered, that you don't want... but it's not deleting it... maybe it's referring to firefox. It's here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_autocomplete_entries

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You can check your keychain with the application called Keychain Access, which can be found inside your /Applications/Utilities folder.
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ozean wrote:You can check your keychain with the application called Keychain Access, which can be found inside your /Applications/Utilities folder.
thanks ozean, tried that and it didn't work.
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thanks thanks thanks! you guys were right :)
I finally found the Keychain culprit...

There were a few keychain entries for the same site (with different e-mail addresses in parentheses next to the name of the site), the one causing the problem didn't show an email address, so I wasn't deleting it. Maybe because it was the original one I signed up with and the ones showing an address, came after... Anyway, I finally deleted the one not showing an address and it did the trick.

Thanks... this was kinda makin me crazy! ;)

cheers
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