picture posting problems?

[hon30critter]

There! Can you tell what mood I'm in?

Is anyone else having trouble posting pictures currently? I have been trying for a couple of hours to post an image and I can't get it to work properly. 

FYI, I have read the instructions on how to post a photo several times and I think I am following the procedure. I made sure that the file format was jpeg.  I can paste the URL into the 'Edit Image' drop down window. I have tried using both Flickr and Drop Box. No photo!

Just to add insult to injury, I managed somehow to get the 'Broken Image' icon to show up in the post, and when I right click on that I can open the image in a new tab or a new window. Don't ask me how I got the Broken Image icon to show up. I haven't a clue.

Thanks

Dave

[gmpullman]

Hello, Dave

It seems to me that the whole internet is screwy lately, maybe the past two-weeks or so.

IMG_6762_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

About half the time I try to upload or access a photo at Flickr the site is down and I get a Yahoo apology... we are trying to address the problem — we will be right back.

Most days the MB Klein, Modeltrainstuff site is V - E - R - Y slow. Taking a minute or more just to go from one page to another. Are the ISPs or servers fighting off cyber-hackers and viruses?

I hope it stabilizes soon. I have been dealing with Windows "critical updates" that leave my machines in disarray. Just today I had to deal with cleaning up two failed "updates" that left everything acting wonky. I had to go back a few days and use the recovery tools.

I did look at your plan uploaded to Dropbox and everything looked fine there.

So far my copy > paste works fine for Flickr. 

Good Luck, Ed

 

[mbinsewi]

Don't know what to say, here is a pic from the dreaded PB,

I have the $14. a year "no ad" thing from PB, we'll see if that changes, not sure when the renwal date is.

Mike.

[AntonioFP45]

Mine seems to be working ok.

(Suncoat MRR Club)

[hon30critter]

AntonioFP45

Mine seems to be working ok.

Hi Antonio:

Thanks for responding. Can you tell me what photo hosting site you are using?

Dave

[gmpullman]

hon30critter

Can you tell me what photo hosting site you are using?

Just hover your mouse over the image and the link will appear in your browsers url address bar:

https://i.imgur.com/7UIYU04.jpg

Home page:

https://imgur.com/

 

Ed

[hon30critter]

Hi Ed:

Thanks for your help. I just tried to use imgur and I got the same result - no picture. That's three photo hosting sites that I can't post from. Could it be something in my settings? I haven't messed with any settings for a long time. I'm going to re-boot my computer (as opposed to re-booting my rear end) and see what happens.

Dave

Edit: I rebooted the computer and nothing has changed. Now I'm really frustrated!!!

[gmpullman]

hon30critter

Thanks for your help.

Help? Hardly...

Now, if you are trying to post the layout drawing, be sure it is in a .jpg format.

I've used several drawing programs and sometimes you have to use an "export" function in order to save the drawing as a "photo". Autocad is like this, it saves as a .dxf file not .jpg.

The Dropbox site usually only works if the "recipient" is also a registered Dropbox user. Anybody else gets a "please sign in" window.

These are just random thoughts...

Have you tried uploading the image to Flickr? (I thought you had a Flickr account?) 

Hope you get it squared away. I share your frustration! I awoke to two computers acting all haywire. Took me an hour-and-a-half on each one to get things back to semi-normalness.

Good Luck, Ed

[hon30critter]

gmpullman

Have you tried uploading the image to Flickr? (I thought you had a Flickr account?) 

Yes. I have tried Flickr, Drop Box and Imgur. Same results each time.

Dave

["JaBear"]

Gidday Dave, are you sure that you have got the string that connects the two baked bean cans tight???  

on Flickr

Cheers, the unhelpful Bear.

[tstage]

Dave,

Suggestion: Paste the photo's URL in your post so that everyone can see it and try it for themselves.  That will tell you if it's a problem with your computer or the URL.

Tom

[gmpullman]

Testing: testing...

 

Section 9A by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Hummm...

I hope it doesn't look like I'm trying to rub salt in your wound, Dave. I downloaded the image from Dropbox, uploaded it to Flickr, copy > pasted the link here and, well, the rest is history.

I don't understand what could be causing the glitch? 

Ed

[hon30critter]

OK, here is the URL:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ll44gcephr16zl/Section%209A.jpg?dl=0

If I left click on it the link icon in the header highlights but nothing else happens. If I right click on it I get a drop box which allows me to open the link in a new tab or a new window.

Dave

Edit: OK, now I am really messed up! I just left clicked the above link and I immediately got the image. That wasn't happening before.

[tstage]

Thanks, Dave.  Here is what I get if I:

1. Right-click photo and choose "Copy Image Location"
2. Click on Insert/Edit image icon above text box
3. Copy and paste URL in Source text box
4. Click OK

Works for me?...Yes, it does.  FYI: I'm using Windows 10 Home (Version 1709) with Firefox 58.0.

Tom

[hon30critter]

gmpullman

I hope it doesn't look like I'm trying to rub salt in your wound, Dave. I downloaded the image from Dropbox, uploaded it to Flickr, copy > pasted the link here and, well, the rest is history.

Go ahead Ed, rub all the salt you want! The process worked for you but it is not working for me. Microsoft has just done a bunch of updates on my computer. I'm thinking I'm going to do a restart to a previous date and see what happens then.

Dave

[hon30critter]

Tom:

Same answer as I just gave Ed. It seems to be working for you but it is not working for me. I'm going to back date my computer.

Of course now that everyone can see the plotting diagram, the next question is can anybody understand it?

Dave

[gmpullman]

One last thing... are you sure you are using the "BB Code" link when you copy from Flickr? Might sound elementary but sometimes it defaults back to email or embed when you want BB Code for posting in the M-R forum.

MR_Photo2 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Maybe?

Good Luck again. I have had headaches with many of the stupid Windows updates lately.

With one of them I lost all the text in the drop down menus in my Adobe Photoshop and Premier Elements programs. It took me hours to patch up.

Microsoft pleaded innocent. "Could not have been anything WE did" but it was proven that it WAS! 

[hon30critter]

gmpullman

One last thing... are you sure you are using the "BB Code" link when you copy from Flickr? Might sound elementary but sometimes it defaults back to email or embed when you want BB Code.

Hi Ed,

Yes, I have copied the BB Code into the 'Edit Image' box several times and the results are still the same. If this continues I'm going to start using words that Steven Otte won't like!

Thanks again for your help.

Dave

[tstage]

The one thing I like about the method I use is that I don't get the extra Flickr info (i.e. IMG_6762_fix by Edmund, on Flickr) displayed at the bottom of the photo - like what's shown in Ed's earlier posts.

Tom

[gmpullman]

Don't use the "Insert/Edit image" icon.

Simply hit Crtl + V to paste the text of the link into your reply.

Go ahead... try it.

I'll be waiting.

Ed

[tstage]

If I do that, Ed, it just pastes the link with no photo...unless you were talking to Dave.

Tom

[gmpullman]

tstage

If I do that, Ed, it just pastes the link with no photo...unless you were talking to Dave.

Yeah, Tom. I was trying to catch Dave while he was still here. If he pastes the Flickr link into the MR "Insert/edit image" text box the link won't work.

hon30critter

Yes, I have copied the BB Code into the 'Edit Image' box several times and the results are still the same.

So, that might be his dilemma...

The way I've been linking to Flickr I'm keeping the ID code attached to the photo because, as far as I can see, it is Flickr's policy:

https://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines

 

Link back to Flickr when you post your Flickr content elsewhere.Flickr makes it possible to post content hosted on Flickr to other web sites. Pages on other web sites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr. This provides a way to get more information about the content and the photographer.

 

Just playing safe...

Cheers! Ed

[tstage]

Ed,

That's why I like to right click the actual photo itself, left-click Copy Image Location, then paste that into the Insert/Edit image Source text box.  It always works for me - no matter what photo-hosting site I'm copying it from.

Tom

[gmpullman]

tstage

That's why I like to right click the actual photo itself, left-click Copy Image Location, then paste that into the Insert/Edit image Source text box.  It always works for me - no matter what photo-hosting site I'm copying it from.

I'll give that a shot over at the "Forum Testing Grounds" Tom! 

Thanks for the heads-up. 

Ed

[hon30critter]

I'm still here. I'm trying to digest the last few minute's posts.

Edit: I've been up all night trying to solve this issue and I am too tired to go any further tonight. I'll try again tomorrow.

Thanks guys.

Dave

[tstage]

Ed,

I saw your test in the testing forum and tried the same method using Flickr on your photo.  It didn't work because Flickr has an automatic zoom feature when the photo is clicked on in Flickr and it doesn't give you the Copy Image Location option.   The option from the Dropbox page that Dave posted did work though.

Tom

[RR_Mel]

Dave

 

I build up my posts in Word, I just found it easier to post that way.

 

Since the Photo Bucket disaster I’ve been posting pictures from my blog.  I use a page not listed on my Blog so that the public doesn’t normally see the stored pictures.

 

I’m running Firefox 56.0.2 because I don’t like the newer versions.  When I right click on a picture on my Blog one of the selections is “Copy Image Location”, I then paste the link to my Word document.  I do a copy of the Word document then past it to the Forum reply window.

 

After the paste I double click on each photo link and do a copy and paste to the add picture icon.

 

This is a copied link using “Copy Image Location”

 

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BnPJj6QriXI/WmgjH3K21CI/AAAAAAAANTA/YUgqoX6vTBkAyeru6P4-DBe9JIskNLqJgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Rivarossi%2BCab%2BForward%2BFrame%2BOld%2Bvs%2BNew-5L.jpg

 

The picture below is the copied link and pasted to the Forum add picture icon.

 

 

This might sound like a lot of trouble but it makes it much easier for me.

 

The older I get the more behinder I get so anything that makes it easier I go with it.

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

 

[BigDaddy]

Imgur has several ways that your picture might appear to you

 

If it is this view, there are several choices that work in this forum.

The first, you use the insert picture icon. Note that the link ends in .jpg.  That's different than the dropbox link which had dl=0 following the jpg

 

The other two choices are BB code and linked BB code.  DO NOT use the insert picture icon for either of these.  Enter them as you would any copied text

 

 

If you are in album view, the choice on the right are not there.  Click on the arrow next to COPY and a new menu will appear, that gives you 4 choices.  I alway click the BB code

 

 

 

[mbinsewi]

Nice shot from Coal City, Henry.  I like those dash8-40bw's.  I have a couple waiting for decoders.

Fire Fox won't do screen shots, as far as I'm able to figure out.

Mike.

OOOPS! am I

[BigDaddy]

mbinsewi

Fire Fox won't do screen shots, as far as I'm able to figure out.

On my laptop, I hit the windows button and print screen.  The screen dims for a split second.  Then I hit control V and Voila...nuthin??  If you go to Paint, which is a standard Windows program, you can do the control V and save it as a jpg then upload it somewhere else like Imgur