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rogerowen wrote:Don't get excited - elderly owner was just delivering a trailer load of garden waste.

Arghhh! Forgot - I can't upload pictures to MMOC web site!

As I seem to be unable to upload photos to this site - this one can be seen here;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbibmmyx84d5x ... Screen.jpg

Looks nice

place IMG tags around it (using the buttons above the text box when you write a post)

Matt wrote:place IMG tags around it (using the buttons above the text box when you write a post)

What, like this;???


Can't remember doing this in the past, used to just use the 'Upload Picture' button at the bottom left of the text box

This forum has never had an upload picture option

Must have been living in a parallel universe

Or using another message board... ;)

So do have the option to upload pics - but this one doesn't

Matt wrote:Or using another message board... ;)

So do have the option to upload pics - but this one doesn't

I'm obviously having a 'Life on Mars' moment - Nurse!

Noticed my typo "so" should read some...

i.e. Some do have the option to upload pics

Matt wrote:Noticed my typo "so" should read some...

i.e. Some do have the option to upload pics

Do you mean other message boards within the MMOC web-site? I can't upload to any. Had to get Louise to uplaod pictures for me recently on Mechanical.

No - I mean other message boards out in the big wide web...

There is no upload facility on the MMOC messageboard

Matt wrote:No - I mean other message boards out in the big wide web...

There is no upload facility on the MMOC messageboard

This is getting spooky now. I've uploaded loads of pictures to posts to MMOC in the past.

Re:

http://www.mmoc.org.uk/index.php?key=Pi ... 0Uploading

Does this no longer exist? And therefore the little 'Upload Picture - Browse' button does not work anymore?

go to the upload button at the bottom left corner
then choose file then upload by pressing submit
you are right it has always had an upload button
dont know what the others are on about
gee whizz i think its because your pics are far greater in size nowadays and we are living in the past as far as pic size
if you reduce the pixel size you will have better luck[frame][/frame]

alexandermclaren wrote:go to the upload button at the bottom left corner
then choose file then upload by pressing submit
you are right it has always had an upload button
dont know what the others are on about
gee whizz i think its because your pics are far greater in size nowadays and we are living in the past as far as pic size
if you reduce the pixel size you will have better luck[frame][/frame]

Thanks - I was begining to think I was going crazy! Anyway, tried making the pictures smaller and it makes no difference. What happens is that I go online to MMOC, write my post then I select the photo using the browse button and my browser (Fire Fox)trys to connect (little wheels goes round and round with the legend 'connecting' - but it just continues doing that for several minutes and eventually times out. I'm posting (with pictures) to several other web forums with no problems at all. It's a bit bizarre - there must be a setting wrong somewhere - but I can't find it. Thanks again for letting me know I'm still sane (ish)

Here you go....

[frame][/frame]

I simply downloaded it and transferred it to 'My Pictures', then picked up with the 'Browse' option on here from there.
Best wishes,
Mike.

The upload does work - but the site 'down sizes' the pictures. There's no point storing a picture 3000 pixels x 2000 pixels when they're only going to be shown at 640pixels or so wide. The small image only takes a fraction of the storage space of the large one.

It takes time for the server to scale down the image, so if its busy, your browser (or the server) may 'time out' before it finishes.

If you have problems, making the pictures smaller before you upload them may help.

bpr81a wrote:The upload does work - but the site 'down sizes' the pictures. There's no point storing a picture 3000 pixels x 2000 pixels when they're only going to be shown at 640pixels or so wide. The small image only takes a fraction of the storage space of the large one.

It takes time for the server to scale down the image, so if its busy, your browser (or the server) may 'time out' before it finishes.

If you have problems, making the pictures smaller before you upload them may help.

Thanks, I haven't had this problem before, and I recently tried scaling down a picture but it didn't work either.
Let me try again with a very small picture that I succesfully uploaded in the past..........[frame][/frame]
And, bingo - it worked

I have a feeling the problem lies with a combination of MMOC server and my ISP (and their server). I recently switched from BT to TT, probably not a perfect move - but halved my bills

Thanks so much for the help - will post with smaller pictures in the future!

Cheers,

Roger

jagnut66 wrote:Here you go....

[frame][/frame]

I simply downloaded it and transferred it to 'My Pictures', then picked up with the 'Browse' option on here from there.
Best wishes,
Mike.

Thanks Mike,

I'm back in action - with smaller pictures