SOLVED: Possible Bug: Some user settings will reset to default after clearing browser cache

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Thanks but this doesn't make sense to me. Why would Admins only be able to change user-level preferences on the current client the admin is on (ie. Chrome). Wouldn't the user preferences (be it if they are changed by the use or the admin) propogate to all platforms/apps that suppose those settings (assuming it has an API)?

I didn't mean for the same type of client. I meant on the same device. A new browser (with nothing saved in its cache) counts as a new device.
So if you clear out the cache, you're effectively deleting the device and starting with a new device.

It's a bit convoluted on what settings apply to what users on whatever devices.
1. Some of those settings apply only to the current user in the current device.
2. Some apply for the user on all devices that use the webUI.
3. Some even apply to all users in a server on the same device only.

As an example of the point 3, the option in the webUI to select your preferred video and audio transcode codecs apply to all users that will ever use that one device.
So if you change that, it will apply to all users that log you out and sign in on that same browser (with the same cache).

The reason it's not made so that the settings apply everywhere is because not all clients support having the same settings.
There's also cases where people want to have different settings on some (or all) of their devices.

LG TVs usually break when you select the fMP4 option, so you would disable it there.
However, you may want to turn on fMP4 on a Chrome browser as it allows for HEVC to be direct playable by the browser.
How would you handle this if changing it on one devices forces it to be the same on all of your devices?

And just to point this out, anything you change in the dashboard applies to the server as a whole.
Any settings that are not found in the dashboard are normal "client settings" which usually apply to the current client itself only.
Of course one of the exceptions to this would be the home view settings as that will actually apply to all clients that use the webUI (because you're not making changes for a client, but the webUI which follows you around regardless of the client).