
Why Can't I See My Customized MySpace Profile?I copy and pasted a myspace layout for my profile. I think other people can see the new layout but I can't see it my self when I sign in. Why is that? Is it because I have a mac? Let's start right out by easing any possible tension or controversy: it has nothing to do with you being a Macintosh owner. MySpace works equally well (or poorly, depending on time of day) if you have a Mac, PC, Linux box, Xbox360, Motorola Q phone or aluminum can and piece of string. Well, maybe not the can and string! The issue you're talking about is one that I was darn confused by when I first started using MySpace too, actually, where I'd make changes to my profile and some of them would show up when I clicked on the "HOME" button, but others would seemingly be ignored. The important fact to realize is that your home is not your MySpace profile but rather a special version of the profile with edit links and other navigational elements that only you would want to access (you don't want me being able to access your 'friend invites' list and approving people who don't actually want as friends, for example!) So here's how you get to the public version of your profile. Log in, get to your usual page, and notice that just under your picture are a small set of buttons: ![]() If you click on the word profile on the very bottom, you'll find that the "public version" of your profile is displayed, rather than the special owner version you usually see. Now you should be able to see if your fancy formatting worked or not. Hope that helps you continue your adventures with MySpace! And while I'm at it, I have a lot of additional MySpace Help here on the site and you can also become my friend by checking out my MySpace profile.
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. Hi! I got some myspace backgrounds from another site- and they are really cool, the only problem is that the boxes on the left with favorite movies, etc. are cut off- it only shows about half of them starting with the movies and doesn't show any boxes below it until my schools box. Why is this and how can I fix it and still keep the cool background? Posted by: Swedishfairy at January 23, 2007 9:51 PMHi, I can't loggin to my myspace most of the time, I can see other peoples pages but certain things just won't load correctly. I downloaded Firefox thinking that it may have been IE7 but that didn't help. The myspace page either starts to load (a blank grey screen) and says done, tries to load forever or loads a garbled mess that I can't do anything with. Any help would be appreciated. Posted by: Terry at February 10, 2007 11:39 AMwhy does MY PROFILE say "This profile is set to private. This user must add you as a friend to see his/her profile", when i click on my view all friends button? I haven't made my profile private. And when i login i'm not given the option to view my friends, my profile, my photos, or videos. Why is this and how can i fix it? i have a big problem i can get on any website except www.myspace.com everywhere else i go to use a computer i can get on my myspace... can u help me???? Posted by: tracy at February 12, 2007 6:46 PMi cant see my pics y is this Posted by: arod at February 19, 2007 11:29 PMI have the same problem with the first post: I copy and pasted a myspace layout for my profile. I think other people can see the new layout but I can't see it my self when I sign in. Why is that? When I click the word profile on the very bottom, the "public version" of my profile is displayed without the customized layout. Its a regular layout without the friends and all the other info you would have the webpage. Posted by: Neil at February 23, 2007 10:57 PMI think someone hacked my page...now no one can see my pix...or leave messages bc when you click the icon it sends you to an advertisement..or says this website is unavailable..How can i change this? Posted by: Romeo at April 3, 2007 9:05 PMhello, everyone can see my videos and slideshow on myspace, but when I log in from my computer I can't see my video or slideshow. I added Adobe FlashPlayer 9 but it still won't work. What software if any is missing from my computer. This just started two weeks ago. Before that I could see everything. Posted by: Ann at April 14, 2007 3:20 PMthere is a big link covering my whole 'view my pics' ect part on my profile. i have tryed everything to get rid of it but it wont go?? plz help Posted by: loz at April 17, 2007 10:34 PMso i have a problem I can only view my MySpace webpage when I log in. If I don't, all I get is the default page with my picture on it. Please help. Posted by: D.Dunn at May 1, 2007 2:46 PMI try to make my myspace not private anymore but its not working. I dont want it to be private but its not letting me change it. How can i change it? Posted by: Sam at May 2, 2007 1:25 PMI cannot see the commetns portion om 3 of my friends pages. The box is there but they are empty and therefore I cannot add commetns...HELP Posted by: Marcella at May 5, 2007 7:39 PMCan you please tell me how to change my about me profile as i have put in html codes only to find that is all i can see on my page Thankyou Posted by: Ivan Carver at May 7, 2007 12:31 AMhey sir When I was not logged onto my account, I tried to view it but it told me it was set to private, which it isn't, and that it hadn't been updated in 2 years, which it has been. Whats wrong? Posted by: Dalton at May 8, 2007 8:13 PMDalton, hate to say it, but are you sure you're looking at YOUR profile when experience that? Also, note that "under 18" and "over 18" are different worlds on MySpace, so if you're logged in to an over 18 account and are searching for an under-18 profile, that might cause problems too. Posted by: Dave Taylor at May 9, 2007 7:08 AMI SET UP MY MYSPACE ACCOUNT A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO. I'VE ALREADY VERIFIED THE EMAIL. I HAVE ALREADY SET THE DISPLAY NAME AND MY FIRST AND LAST NAMES FOR SO OTHERS CAN FIND ME. I CAN LOG ON AND OFF JUST FIND.HERE'S THE PROBLEM...MY FRIENDS/MYSELF HAVE ENTERED MY NAME CORRECTLY & CAN'T FIND ME. I CAN'T BE FOUND BY EMAIL EITHER. WHAT'S GOING ON??? Posted by: latiana at May 12, 2007 5:42 AMhi there, a i think i have the same problem as latiana, myspace is working fine but i or others cant search to my profile? could plz advize?:)) my myspace name cant be searched! bummer. what do i do? ive typed in the name correctly, ive gone over "names/profile" duzzens of times, even so my name cant be searched, any ideas? thanks Posted by: philip gehrung at May 17, 2007 2:19 PMI am having a similar problem to a few on this site. From my mac, I cannot see my slide shows or music on my page. From a "regular" computer, I CAN. I used to be able to see my slide shows and I used to be able to listen to my music from my profile page (not my editing page). What can I do? I have updated quicktime....I don't know what else is going on! Posted by: angela Haynes at May 18, 2007 9:12 AMalright here how it is if you could e-mail me answering this question it would be awesome cuz i cnt find an answa ne where. on my page on other peoples computers and on other peoples myspaces looking at ym profile they can see the comments people leave me, but when im logged in i cant see the comments on my profile page. Y? Posted by: zac at May 22, 2007 7:22 PM
my myspace isnt letting me sign on its being like this for a few days now, whats the matter with it? Posted by: kylie at June 29, 2007 11:14 AMu know that "this profile is set to private" page. how do u customize that page? Posted by: andrew at July 5, 2007 1:59 AMfor about a week now, whenever i log on to myspace i can't see my pics and my friends pics it says no photo and am using linux Posted by: Mimi at July 11, 2007 7:27 AMI tried to download from T-mobil website upgrade for my dash phone and I cant see the botton to download , and when I go to other computer I can. Im running explorer 7 why? Posted by: avi at July 13, 2007 8:33 AMHi! Pleeeease HELP. mz Posted by: munim zAWAWI at July 19, 2007 3:05 AMi am in serious trouble!!!when i copied and pasted a laylout in my profile all the information dissappeared how do you customize the "this is a private profile" page??? Posted by: cambria at July 28, 2007 2:42 AMThis is weird. i want to see a profile and its not accessable like its not clickable.. its not private but you just cant click it so its not accessable. you can click on every other profile but not that one When i browse for my myspace profile in my area code my profile doesn't show up why not? Posted by: Debi at August 9, 2007 9:20 PMHELP MAJOR MYSPACE ISSUES/OR MAY BE MY COMPUTOR u know that "this profile is set to private" page. how do u customize that page? Posted by: Tiffany at September 4, 2007 3:25 PMHELLO DAVE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM ...THAT I SEE LISTED ABOVE..WHEN I GO ON A FEW OF MY FRIENDS PAGES I CANNOT SEE THERE COMMENT BOX...BUT THERE THERE!!! SO I CANT LEAVE A COMMENT UNLESS I ATTACH IT TO ONE THAT THEY SENT TO ME. HOW DO I FIX THIS PROBLEM....NEED HELP BAD!!!! THANK YOU Posted by: CHUCK at September 4, 2007 6:26 PMI can't see the comments on some of my friends pages... WHY?....please help. Posted by: Julie at September 14, 2007 7:44 PMI am having the same problem I can't see some of my friends comment boxes on there pages and it only seems to be when I am on my specific computer. Any ideas? Posted by: buck at October 4, 2007 6:19 AMI can't get my profile on my Schools profile. How do u make it so people cant see your tor friends? Posted by: Emily at November 3, 2007 3:43 PMI want to set up a slideshow on my myspace page - I click on the "Create A Slideshow", follow all the directions and get to the bottom where is says "Click below and enter CTRl+C" and nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Posted by: Kim at November 5, 2007 9:08 AMI can't see 5 of my friends comments? I can see some but some is just a blank box on my friends page. Help please. Thanks! Jimmy Posted by: Jimmy at November 23, 2007 8:11 PMI cant log in to myspace for some reason!!! We had a virus a few days ago, but now the computer is usuable....but I cant get on myspace!!!!!! aah! Do you know a reason for this? Thank u. when people are on my myspace and they click pics it signs them out and they cant see the pics or send a message what do i do? Posted by: alicia at December 21, 2007 10:43 AMI am having the same problem as alot of people. I cannot view my profile background when i click on my "public profile" but they are showing on other computers. What settings do I need to changed so that I can view it on MY computer? Posted by: garry at January 4, 2008 6:30 PMwhy can't i be searched on myspace Hi Davo, I've recently updated my profile and my slideshow is now invisible. You got any advice in the HTML that could trigger it to be invisible... to note, it's still clickable just under "interests" Daniel I was wondering why i can't see my slide shows and videos and music???? I have a problem with my Facebook page and friends pages. Ever since i downloaded Internet Explorer 7.0 my Facebook page has gone wrong. I can view some of my page but not all of it. I can't view my Wall although, i am able to view my Fun Wall. I have to enter applications via the applications page which is very annoying, and to edit them or remove them i have to do it the same way. I can't move my applications around my page at all and i am unable to see all of my friends pages, usualy the left hand side only. Can anyone help as i've contacted Facebook but they have proven unhelpfull. Posted by: Gemma at April 29, 2008 5:41 AMI use both Apple's Safari and Internet Explorer... When I go to look at my profile on Safari the only thing that shows up is the background and the music... When I use IE everything shows up just fine... I had my roommate sign on and go look at her page on Safari and everything was fine... i can't figure out what is wrong... HELP!! Posted by: Celena at May 14, 2008 5:50 PMHI,I HAVE A ? 4 U.....SOME MYSPACE PROFILE CAN HIDE THEIR THE TEXT SO WE CAN SEE THEIR BACKGROUD PICTURE BEFORE THEN WHEN U SCROL,THE TEXT APPEAR.HOW THEY DO THAT. Posted by: FABULOUS at May 22, 2008 11:28 PMCan anyone tell me why I'm not able to see my default picture on myspace on either internet explorer nor mozilla firefox please!? Link: http://www.myspace.com/le_chic_d_v Posted by: Victoria at June 10, 2008 12:55 AMI log into myspace, click on a friend's pics, am then brought to a page telling me to log in, I do that again and I get the same page again and even if I search for the friend, click on pics again, I get asked to log in. Can you help? Posted by: Mandy Cook at June 28, 2008 5:15 AMwhen i went to this websit i wanted to customize my comment box so i put a picture from "photobucket" where it says "background image"(optional) and then when i looked at it it was hot of whatever but then when i look at it on my myspace page the whole thing was white.why does it do that Posted by: Brittany at July 11, 2008 1:05 AMWhen I click on edit profile all the boxes are empty as if all my codes and writing were erased, however it doesnt even show my about me box or my headline box. It only shows general,movies,heroes ect. I cant edit anything to change it. Please help I would hate to make another site after all the friends i have on this one. Posted by: Taylor at July 24, 2008 12:27 AMI also tried to browse my profile. all 3 of them which are in the same area code, and when I browse my area code or anything, None of my profiles come up, which would explain why i only have 2 profile views.. so how do you fix that? Posted by: Steve at October 2, 2008 12:06 AMHello (: I cant see my friends comments. The box is there where they should be but I cant see them. Do you happen to know what the problem is? Posted by: Miranda at October 9, 2008 3:35 PMHEY I CANT COMMENT MY FRIENDS PICS ...IT WILL LET ME SEE THE PICS BUT WHEN I GO TO COMMENT THEM THE LIL BOX THAT U CLICK TO POST THE COMMENT ISNT THERE I DNT UNDERSTAND HOW TO FIX IT CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW?? Posted by: kayla at October 27, 2008 11:31 AMHelp!! How do you customize the "this profile is set to private" page on myspace? Posted by: Alex at October 29, 2008 12:39 AMWhen I go to view my profile on myspace, it shows my profile as completely blank, expect it does show the background. I have tried changing and deleting the background and even deleting all my info and nothing. It does the same thing if someone else is tring to veiw it as well. I have loaded lots of pics and they all show on myspace but not my default pic! I have changed this in 2 differnt places or ways and still no luck! Y is it still showing no photo!? HELP Posted by: Traci at November 11, 2008 9:01 AMcan u please tell me how to fix my backround cauz everytime i add a background it wont show Posted by: naomi at December 5, 2008 4:29 PMI have a solution to one problem some of you mention...and I have a problem of my own that some of you also have. First - If you're unable to login to MySpace and it opens a blank page, leaving your login page as is...I found a solution that worked for me (IE7/Vista). Go to Your Internet Explorer "Tools", click "Internet Options", then the "Advanced" tab. You'll need to "Reset" your Internet Explorer settings. You may want to note some of the current settings in case you want to put some things back the way they were. This worked for me and I can finally login to MySpace from my laptop. Yay! Now for MY problem: Awhile after getting my Dell laptop with Vista, my MySpace profile stopped displaying completely. The "About Me" section is cut off about 4 inches down, "Who I'd Like To Meet" doesn't show up at all. My "Friends" section looks fine. My "Comments" section is cut off after several inches. One fix that was suggested was to disable all add-ons, which I tried with no success. I've deleted all cache, temp. internet files, etc. This has been going on for over a year and I've yet to find a solution. Thanks for any help!! On other computers, I can see the profile in its entirety. I've tried using Foxfire on my laptop and the problem is even worse...the text and pictures aren't visible at all, all I can see is colors. Posted by: Nancy at December 18, 2008 9:16 AMok,i have a problem with my profile(myspace),i posted some fotobucket pics into my profile and i can only see some of them in my profile.Some are not even there,instead,there's a big empty space where it should be.Also,my comment box is cut in half,you can only see half of the comments,the rest is cut and you can't see it.Can somebody help me,i really need help because there's a lot of empty space in my profile where pics,comments,vids,texts should be..somebody please help me.thanks... Posted by: Alex at December 24, 2008 12:04 PMHi, On my myspace page I cant see a videos and pics but when I use another computer I can see everything fine. have you see this problem before can you help me with this? Cheers hello, i have a problem when I am on another computer I can see my layout but on my sony vaio laptop I cannot see anyones layout, including my own. Can you please help me? Posted by: chassity at January 19, 2009 5:49 PMAll photos look blurry, mine and my friends. What's the problem? Also I can't get a lay out. Posted by: jimi at January 25, 2009 6:01 AMhi, dve im asking you about myspace, well i dont know how two put a layout on my myspace page. I know how to copy it an paste it an go to edit profile an paste it on about me or who would i like to meet an i save all changes an it still desn't show up on my myspace page? Dave please help me Posted by: donald at January 29, 2009 5:33 PMmake my name on my profile different than what others see, like when i am on my profile it says something like kitty cat pilgram other than suzie the explorerr:] loves icecream?? Posted by: suzie loves icecream:] at February 18, 2009 3:50 PMI can't view the picture in my inbox ,b4 i can see everythng,but nw i can't see it agan,what hapening?.pls help me,thnx. Posted by: Yemi at March 5, 2009 10:59 AMI can't view the picture in my inbox ,b4 i can see everythng,but nw i can't see it agan,what hapening?.pls help me,thnx. Posted by: Yemi at March 5, 2009 11:04 AMwhy when i put another layout to my profile i cant see it... Posted by: Rohaina at March 9, 2009 10:01 PMWhy can't access to my own page on Tagged from my Palm? it does not give me the option to sign up, It ask me to fill up the info, which already did before but at least it tells me that the member already exist!!! well yes, is me!!!! lol but I can't sign up!!! help me please!!!! people noww are like making there myspace profiles to where you can only see pics and a lil other stuff?? how can i do dat ???? ANSWERS NEEDED, OH AND ITS HARD TO EXLPLAIN..(:(:(: Posted by: taylor at April 9, 2009 11:44 PMi'm having similar problems as these folks... when i go to view my profile on myspace (even from the public version)from my home computer, i can see everything fine except for the video i put on there, it just looks like a clear square. But when i check it from any other computer, i can see it just fine. do u know what would be causing this? ..please help! Posted by: Robert F. at April 20, 2009 7:34 PMMy myspace page is not working right it want let me get a layout and i don't know what to do. Posted by: Holly at April 22, 2009 8:17 PMhi i can not see my friends comments on her page she can send me but i cant see hers or send her any why is that? Posted by: lisa at April 26, 2009 1:27 PMI just bought a new dell laptop, and due to the security settings, it will not show about half of the pics on myspace, including my profile and comments I get from friends. Plus, the video that plays on my profile does not even show up. When I pull up myspace on another laptop that I have, everything works fine, so it's not the links or anything that I've done. What changes do I need to make to the security levels to show everything fully? Thanks! Posted by: Kirk C. at June 9, 2009 8:48 AMNot sure how that would be a hardware setting, Kirk. Instead, dig around in the privacy and security settings in your Web browser and/or try grabbing a different browser (for example, http://www.getfirefox.com/) and see what happens. Posted by: Dave Taylor at June 9, 2009 8:58 AMI have a problem...a month ago, I used a Pimp My Profile layout editor to modify a layout. I generated and pasted the code, then went to my profile, only to see no background at all. It's just blank white. I've used some layouts from other websites, but the same thing happens with those...I didn't even edit them. Is there any way I can fix this? Posted by: Nikki at June 12, 2009 4:08 PMHi Dave, I just made a myspace page and everyone is telling me they can't find me when they browse people in my area. I have the correct zip code and everything. I just don't show up on the browse list of people in the area. Posted by: Tim at July 4, 2009 1:37 PMwell i just want to know why i cant see my background in my profile...like when i put a code in about me ....then i look to my profile and doesnt show up....can you tell me..thanks Posted by: gary at July 25, 2009 2:55 PMi have a big problem i can get on any website except www.myspace.com everywhere else i go to use a computer i can get on my myspace... can u help me???? on my pc, the myspace page kinda looks like a mobile page. How can I change it back to normal?? Posted by: bel0114 at August 31, 2009 4:08 PMhi, when i go to my customize page, it's all white, like i cant see anything but my music player, not even the blue bar! Even when i go to my profile page, it's still the same thing! when i try to change my layout it keeps sayin myspace has a problem Posted by: donovan at October 10, 2009 1:25 PMI can not see the backgrounds, and a lot of other content online, such as send buttons, enter buttons, and most importantly the captcha on some websites, how can I get my setting to show most content. I had mcafee and took off to see if worked without it so it is not my security, I checked active scripting, used the compatibility button with my IE, nothing. PLEASE HELP!! Posted by: Desiree Payne at November 9, 2009 11:08 PMwhy cant i see my myspace profile? i cannot change my profile layout! i tried deleting all the url but nothing works! i copy and pasted new ones but it just doesnt can somebody tell me why? ill really appreciate whoever can help me!!! Posted by: flor at March 17, 2010 2:26 PMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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