I've got Alerts, Alert preferences, Mark all as read. How to make it....

[mcastillo356]

Hello, I am new in this forum, though very active. I am an student from Spain. I must pass one exam before entering university. I am 55 years old. As I am new, there are things I don't understand. Today I've got alerts: I must mark as read a lot of messages, and I don't know how. Can you tell me how?
Thank you!

 

[Ibix]

Click the bell icon to get the alert popup. In the bottom right there should be a Preferences link - click that. Scroll through preferences until you find these two options:

Alerts pop-up skips mark read
Alerts page skips mark read

Make sure at least one of them is not ticked. If the first one is not ticked, opening the alert popup will mark all alerts as read. If the second one is unticked, following the Show all link at the bottom left of the alert popup will mark all alerts as read.

I prefer to have the first ticked and the second unticked. That way I can check my alerts in the popup, read the ones I want to read, and go to Show all if there are any I want to ignore.

 

[mcastillo356]

Thanks, Ibix!

 

[Borek]

Visiting the thread clears out the unread status of all messages in this thread, not sure if if it is possible to clear them out manually.

 

[mfb]

You can disable alerts you don't want to get https://www.physicsforums.com/account/preferences#alerts

The https://www.physicsforums.com/account/alerts has a link "Mark all as read", too.