Alright, so I read a pm that was sent to me and I wanted to respond to. However, since I didn't have the time, I marked it as unread and let it sit for weeks.  I finally today just shook my head and figured I'd never get around to it, and I deleted it.

Well, I guess because I deleted it while it was still unread... the pm system had a little hissy fit.  For privacy reasons, let's say this person was named John. You know how right below the "Private Messages" link it always shows the name of the person who last sent you an unread message?  Mine show "John" as default. 

If Susy were to send me a message right this moment, it will read Susy.  But as soon as I read her message, it goes back to saying "John" as the last unread sender.  However, I don't even have any messages in my box from "John".  In fact, the most recent message I have unmarked is from leod.

It's very annoying.  
Is there any way to fix this?

Ah, sounds tough. Ask a local mod or Davideo7. I don't know, sorry.

zelda2 : I don't know either, just take his advice, I'm posting RaNdOmLy!@!#!$!%!^!&!*!(!)
I don't know what I just did.

If you don't know the answer, please don't respond.
It's called spam when you do that.

I don't think we actually have a "Mark All as Unread" option... in functionality anyway. As far as I know, you can only mark all as read (and it doesn't check to verify you have anything unread... it's just a simple link).

Oooh... Maybe I misread it then.  That's definitely a possibility and you're probably right.  I was more focused on the 'ALL' part when I was trying to mark the message, and I was annoyed that I would have to go back and remember which ones to specifically mark read and unread.  LOL

It still makes the first post a concern, though at least we know what a solution is now.  It's just less of a problem now.  XD

Oh boy, have I embarrassed myself again?

*grumbles*

The inbox is still being very odd for me.
Almost the same issue as before.

The day the site was lagging, several messages that I received were tripled and quadrupled.  Instead of opening all those copies, I deleted them.  I figured, after all, that I could use the fix I found a few posts above this.

Only this time, it's not working.

After I deleted several of mrfe's clone pm's without reading them, I experienced the same issues as stated in the original post.  I went to 'fix' it by marking all my messages read, then marking the messages I had not responded to as 'unread'.  Well, now the glitch mentioned before is worse.  It wasn't fixed by marking everything read.

Now, anytime mrfe messages me, my inbox says I have 0 private messages.  If I go to my inbox, I clearly have 10 unread pms.

EDIT:  As I was typing the above, mrfe sent me another message.  NOW it says I have 10 unread messages.  Yet if he messages me again, it will say 0 unread messages, and it just keeps flip flopping like that.

Okay... that's definitely some kinda weird site coding glitch nonsense that only David is going to be able to look into.

Davideo7 : Any idea what's going on with her inbox?

Actually, I think only Jigsaw can take care of it... maybe?  He's the one that coded the inbox if I remember correctly.

Slightly offtopic, or kind of on topic, I'm not sure, but, I just wanted to say Thanks. Why? Well, all the way back in 2011, Geeo did a test permaban on me (permaban on one section only). It failed. After logging back in, it said that I had 1 Unread Message from Geeo, and it has stayed that way ever since, Nya~.

Up till now, at least. I had temporarily fixed it once or twice by 100% emptying my inbox, but after a new PM, it would return. Now, it looks like it's fixed.

So once again, thanks for the unintentional help, Nya~!

(also, if anything odd happens with it later, I'll be sure to reply back to report)

MegaRevolution1 :  LOL No problem.  That's a long time to be dealing with that issue  O.o

Also, some clarification....
Apparently the inbox doesn't flip flop between 0 and 10 messages when mrfe messages me.  It seems like the FIRST time he messages me, it will say 0 unread messages (even though I have 10 or so).  No matter how many times he messages me after, it will say the correct amount.

That is in addition to the original glitches mentioned in the first post.

Singelli : No, JigSaw didn't code the inboxes, what he did was make it so that there were staff inboxes.

Maybe try clicking the 'Mark all as read' link ?

Davideo7 : Oh, I see.

Yes, clicking the 'mark all as read' worked before.  That's what I was saying is the issue now.  It's not working.

Maybe I have to 'mark' them all as many times as there were unread copies?  

Singelli : I'm really not sure. You'll just have to live with it for a while because I really don't know when I'll have the time to look into and fix it. I'm just swarmed with stuff right now.

Davideo7 :  I know you are and I understand!   I don't want to distract you.  It's really not that big of a deal and should be at the bottom of your list, of course.  Thank you for the advice in any case!

Singelli : I do appreciate you letting me know. You should make a list of problems you find and one of these days I'll probably make a thread asking users to report things that need fixing.

Sure, I can do that, though I'm sure you know about most of them.  LOL

In any case, I'm sure this can be closed now.  

Thanks once again!

Singelli : BTW,what was the message?

Can you read it for me?

NOTE:- *give the answer in the PM*

Local Mods : "In any case, I'm sure this can be closed now.  " Says Singelli!

Varaddude630 : You could have just PMed her that question. There was no reason to make a post for that purpose.

Either way, this is now closed.