Topic: Posting photos on site

[bill440cars]

I thought that I'd figured out how to post a couple of pictures and at 1st, I ran into a problem because the post was too large. So, I tried to redo it and here I am.  With nothing!  Help guys,  Bill

[Gordon]

What, exactly,  are you doing when trying to post pictures?  All you really need to do is click on the "Additional Options" link under the reply box, and then add the files.  If your pictures are too big , just shrink 'em down a little so they'll fit on this board.

[seabird]

Don't seem to have problems posting pics, but I certainly have 'em when I want to view member's pics...except for a very few pics, all I see when members have posted one or more pics is a "paper clip" place holder which , when I click/double click on iy/yjem, tells me that "the file type is unknown - can't read file header".

I've tried opening these files using default apps, (windoze Media), Irfanview, Paint Shop Pro v5, and ACDSee.

Any ideas guys - I wanna see what everyone else is seeing!

Seabird

[SteveD CB500F]

We have reduced the maximum file size for uploads as it was getting rather silly with 1M+ pictures (when 100K will generally do). This had proved very irritating for the members that don't have access to broadband.

I'm afraid I can't help with the "paperclip" problem - post in "Feedback" and see if Glenn has any ideas.

[Jim Shea]

Bill,
If your pics are saved as a jpeg, you should be able to drag the outline to shrink the pic.
Terry,
Have you tried right clicking on the paper clip, it should say 'open in new window', this might work?
Jim.

[seabird]

Hi Jim,

Tried that (the New Window attempt) but all I get is a blank page and the report "Done" in the lower left corner.  I'm wondering if it's my Browser that won't co-operate - I use Mozilla Firefox in preference to IE6.  I might give IE a run, and see if that does it.
Thanks for the idea though!

Terry
(Seabird).

[Gordon]

I use Firefox and haven't had any problems with this website.  Are you using the latest version?

[SteveD CB500F]

I have used Firefox since this site was established with no problems.

Latest version (1.5) is available for download.

[Jim Shea]

I was using Ms Explorer and had no problems; I recently changed to Mozilla browser from Firefox and it is much quicker than before and I have had less problems than with Explorer.

[Glenn Stauffer]

If there are specific examples of the problem you're describing, post or send me the exact link so I can check into this. I made some changes over the holidays, but I'd expect to see more people report this problem if that was behind it.

[seabird]

Glenn,  this "problem dates from waaaay back...it doesn't apply to a specific site or forum (the attempt to open a pic treats all sites/SOHC4 forums with the same degree of contempt).  On ocasion, the topic opens with a click without me clicking, but any other pics that have been posted appear with the paper clip placeholder icon ad the name of the file.

I can right click and open the file in a new window, but that turns up a blank page - if I decide to save and open it with PSP5, or Irfanview, or ACDSee all I get is the error message - "Can't read File Header - unknown file type"  I've got used to imagining what everyone else is looking at <G>

And I have the latest versions of all these Apps, including Firefox 1.5 (I tried IE6 to open a pic, but that just resulted in a message that the page could not be found, and to try moaning at my ISP, which I (and they) have got quite used to).

Don't worry about it mate, it's not anything you've doen to the site - this was happening well before the holidays!

Seabird
(Terry)

[Glenn Stauffer]

OK.  That's good - that it wasn't my tinkering, I mean.  An example, though, might lead to some clue that could resolve this.  You can't possibly be the only one who has this problem - or can you. :-)

[dusterdude]

i tried mozilla or firefox a while back,which one seems to use netscape?whatever one it was i didnt like it