Help with autocomplete on my computer?

Question

At work, I use google maps a lot, because I have to visit my clients at home and then get reimbursed for the mileage. I can't remember all their addresses off the top of my head (I have like 60 clients) and I often visit them at irregular days and times, so my mileage changes a lot. It worked GREAT that once I typed in an address, the next time all I had to remember was the start of it or the street and it would pull up an auto-fill box and I could just choose.

My computer went down and they replaced it. I didn't expect the addresses to be in the memory.., but since they are all set up the same (supposedly) I did think once I typed them up they would be there.., but they are not.., no auto-fill or autocomplete comes up on this computer. I went in to internet options and made sure autocomplete was on for everything, and it is, and I went into advanced and checked "used inline autocomplete" but it's still not remembering.., could anything be blocking it? how can i fix this? pulling up all these cases individually and re-entering the addresses is a waste of time.

Answer 1

Assuming you are using Internet Explorer



Start IE, and click on the Tools menu

Go into Internet Options at the bottom of the list

Click on the Advanced tab

Scroll through the list of options and look for "Use inline AutoComplete"

(Unfortunately, it varies in its location with different versions of IE, so I can't say "10th option down" or something)

Make sure that is check (by default it is off)

The next time you fill in a field, you should get a prompt asking you if you want the autocomplete to remember what you have typed. Select "Yes".



Most businesses have that off by default (and it comes that way from Microsoft) because the files needed to store that information do use up hard drive speed (the more the longer you use it.)

Answer 2

Are you logging in to the same account?



If your computer was replaced then you have to make sure you log into your account for your autocomplete to work.It is stored at Google so you did not lose them





The 'autocomplete' you actully see is a custom one developed by

Google, and displayed using Javascript and dhtml, to display data from

your Saved locations. You can prove this by saving a location on one

computer, and going to another, your location is then available (of

course you need to be logged into the same google account on both ;).

Auto complete from the browser wouldn't survive across machines. (If it was stored by the browser )

Answer 3

Did you check your cookies? I can't find documentation to prove it but I *believe* that the addresses would be stored in a cookie. If you're using a Windows XP OS, the cookies would be somewhere like C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR COMPUTER NAME]\Cookies. The cookie would be named something like yourcomputer@google[3].txt.



Good luck.