Topic: changing my avatar

[neil young]

i have added a few things to my bike and i want to change the pic.but an error occured? ???i used photobucket.any ideas

[Bob Wessner]

How did you go about trying to upload the new one? You current pic says you uploaded it from your PC, so I am assuming your new one is being hosted at Photobucket? You should just be able to select the top radio button (I Have My Own Picture) then just fill in the entire URL to your pic on photobucket. Sorry if you already know this, but if you right click your picture on Photobucket, the properties will reveal the URL. Just copy that to the profile page.

[neil young]

How did you go about trying to upload the new one? You current pic says you uploaded it from your PC, so I am assuming your new one is being hosted at Photobucket? You should just be able to select the top radio button (I Have My Own Picture) then just fill in the entire URL to your pic on photobucket. Sorry if you already know this, but if you right click your picture on Photobucket, the properties will reveal the URL. Just copy that to the profile page.

ok i tried that .....now all i see is an empty box with a white square with a red x in it   ....and when i right click on said square,then click on open picture nothing happens

[droopy]

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/neilwilliamyoung/IMG_0235.jpg
try this link to your pic instead your link that you used had extra data in the link
nice bike BTW 

[neil young]

nope that didnt work either.....now i cant even add my old avatar i dont know how i @#$%ed that up  .i will keep trying tho cause it looks so sweeeeeet with those new pipes .. thanks Droopy i like her to ;D....how come i can show it  here tho

[droopy]

{http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/neilwilliamyoung/IMG_0235.jpg}

sorry the link I posted  hid the underscore can't have a space in the link  cut and past all that is in between {    }  that should do it

[neil young]

this sucks ..i have tried everything to no avail ....like i said now i cant even post my old pic.@#$%^&*()     &$@*#$

[neil young]

WOW i'm surprised i havnt crashed my computer or this site with the amount of trying to do this @#$%ing picture.as you will note now i dont even have the white box with the red x ( i am now chanting to myself what to do what to do )

[seaweb11]

I noticed earlier this evening that I could not post a photo on another thread either.

[Bob Wessner]

Neil,

Sorry for changing your avatar, but I wanted to try and see what you might be encountering. I right clicked on one of the photos you posted in the thread, copied the URL from properties, went to your profile clicked the top button and pasted the URL in the text box... after deleting the HTTP that was already there since the copied URL already had that in it. It accepted the new photo as your avatar.

[ProTeal55]

I just tried changing my avitar and I got this error--->

move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpayzrFi' to '/home/glennsta/public_html/drupal/newsite/forums/attachments/avatar_tmp_1417'

W T F ?

[neil young]

hey bob no sorry required ...it was driving me crazy trying to figure it out ..thank you very much ....by the way proteal i was getting almost the same responce when i was trying to  change mine

[seaweb11]

I just tried changing my avitar and I got this error--->

move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpayzrFi' to '/home/glennsta/public_html/drupal/newsite/forums/attachments/avatar_tmp_1417'

W T F ?

That's what I got yesterday

[Glenn Stauffer]

I'm looking into it.  Probably a space issue or something like that...

[SteveD CB500F]

I tried to upload a photo of my Triumph as Medic09 is looking at one (blue is slower though...)

I gave up in the end and hosted externally.

Maybe that's the answer.

[c_kyle]

I've been trying to add a new album and some grave yard pics to the gallery, but I get an error.  May or may not be related...

[Gordon]

I gave up in the end and hosted externally.

Maybe that's the answer.

It would definitely save a lot of server space if you were to limit forum hosting of pictures to avatars only.  There's no shortage of free picture hosting websites out there to make use of.  I've been using Photobucket exclusively for the past few months, and it's actually easier to use than re-sizing a picture to get it under the 80kb limit.  We could just put up a FAQ post with links to the free hosting websites for folks who ask how to post pictures. 

[Bob Wessner]

I changed ISP's recently and have not yet set up my own space, but most providers allow you so much space for your own use on their servers. I have nothing against the likes of Photobucket, but your ISP might be a more permanent solution and doesn't require you to identify yourself to yet another entity on the Web.

[Raul CB750K1]

I gave up in the end and hosted externally.

Maybe that's the answer.

It would definitely save a lot of server space if you were to limit forum hosting of pictures to avatars only.  There's no shortage of free picture hosting websites out there to make use of.  I've been using Photobucket exclusively for the past few months, and it's actually easier to use than re-sizing a picture to get it under the 80kb limit.  We could just put up a FAQ post with links to the free hosting websites for folks who ask how to post pictures. 

The problem of hosting pictures somewhere else is that they can take the space down at their own convenience, so you can end up finding that your long-worked post with pictures that you wrote a week ago has no pictures today. I think the forum should make room for pictures as it makes room for text, they go together in most of the cases.

I have no problem linking pictures to external sites when the situation calls for it, but for posting your own pictures it is easier to link them directly into your post than hosting somewhere else.



Obviously, this is just my 2 cents.


Raul