rrebell wrote:Remember sometimes you have to reload your software, the wrong little bit gets out of place and you can have problems, happened to me, had a complete crash and did a complete restore ( but found out later it did not do a complete restore, just did not take for some reason ) so I did it again and problem fixed.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
marknewton wrote:Brunton wrote: <"Well, OBVIOUSLY you Mac users need to go out and buy REAL computers!"> We do - everytime we buy a Mac. PCs are for when ever I want a doorstop, paperweight or small boat anchor...
Mark P.
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Casey Feedwater wrote: Yes, I'm aware of how it's done. The process is no different on this forum than on any other that I post to. The problem is a software conflict between this forum's software and the Safari browser, as I already indicated earlier in this thread. For further information about the conflict and its cause, see Joe Fugate's post in a similar thread to this one.
OK, I misunderstood your post. I thought you were trying to figure out how to post photos. I posted your photo from an old safari browser to show that it works if one pastes the URL between the previously manually-typed image brackets. If you only wanted to register a "me-too" complaint about browser interactions, I missed that point.
By the way, I have found that cutting-and-pasting text from MS Word document sometimes brings along some unwanted tags, it doesn't always paste as plain text. I've found it works better to use the simplest text editor you have. Or, most easily, just copy the URL only from the properties box or browser "address" line and paste it in between the already-typed img tags in brackets as I mentioned earlier.
Well, OBVIOUSLY you Mac users need to go out and buy REAL computers!
I'm just kidding!!!! Don't kill me!!
Did you try typing the [img*] and [/img*] first (without the asterisks), then pasting just the URL in between? The "pure" url starts with http and ends with jpg, gif, or whatever. Don't paste anything else in between the bracketed img tags.
Thusly, with your image
Hi guys,
Check out this sticky thread that I just posted concerning posting photos. Let me know if that doesn't help.
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/899776/ShowPost.aspx#899776
Bergie
selector wrote:Thanks, gentlemen. I will have to break down and get firefox onto the computer...I guess....this should be interesting...
IMHO, it's always good to have an alternative option for surfing the 'net. My IE6 didn't work worth a
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Yaay! That now makes two of us sorted out. So, let's keep chipping away at this puzzle and get folks operational.
Please...!
-Crandell
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cmurray wrote:I find that the one thing that assures success, again, is to manually type the [img*][/img*] (without the asterisks) first, then paste just the URL of the photo in between the [img*] and the[/img*] . I've also tried pasting the url between the img brackets and that doesn't work for me either. The forum still changes the coding to img src, etc. As usual, what you see here is nothing like I intended and nothing like the PREVIEW shows. The preview comes up correctly, so why doesn't the post?
I find that the one thing that assures success, again, is to manually type the [img*][/img*] (without the asterisks) first, then paste just the URL of the photo in between the [img*] and the[/img*] .
I've also tried pasting the url between the img brackets and that doesn't work for me either. The forum still changes the coding to img src, etc.
alco_fan wrote: thusly, with your photo, pcarrell. I notice that the link in your earlier posting somehow was truncated and did not include the ".jpg" at the end of the URL. Either some glitch in browser interactions caused that or (as sometimes happens to me), you missed highlighting the wrapped-around text in the "properties" box from RailImages when you copied
thusly, with your photo, pcarrell. I notice that the link in your earlier posting somehow was truncated and did not include the ".jpg" at the end of the URL. Either some glitch in browser interactions caused that or (as sometimes happens to me), you missed highlighting the wrapped-around text in the "properties" box from RailImages when you copied
I didn't notice that.....thanks!
On the Photobucket account there are three tags under the pic. There's the URL (looks like http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/GrammarPolicebadgesmall.jpg ), the TAG (looks like <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/GrammarPolicebadgesmall.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> ), and the IMG (look like [ IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/GrammarPolicebadgesmall.jpg[ /IMG] and comes out like ). I just copy and paste the IMG tag and it works. I don't type anything manually at all. Just copy/paste, that's it. As to the other issues on the forum, I don't know.
pcarrell wrote:Well, there you go,......Photobucket works great and Railimages doesn't. Guess it's time to transfer all my Railimages pics to Photobucket.
Are you sure you are pasting just the url and not any other tags betwene the image brackets? I've posted phots from both, but you have to be careful which set of properties you copy.
cmurray wrote:Using Photobucket doesn't solve the problem for me. My web browser is Safari on a Mac and ever since the forum format changed, my photos from Photobucket don't post properly.
I have posted images from Photobucket to this forum from both Macs and PCs and I find that the one thing that assures success, again, is to manually type the [img*][/img*] (without the asterisks) first, then paste just the URL of the photo in between the [img*] and the[/img*] . It's unfortunate the software works this way, hopefully it will be modified, but for now this seems to work, just as it did for Selector.
I haven't had any problems at all, but now you've got me curious.
I use Photobucket for almost all my pics, but I have a Railimages account too. Would you all humor me while I try this out?
Photobucket......(using the IMG tag supplied by Photobucket)
Railimages.....(typing the IMG tags by hand and inserting the properties between them)
selector wrote: Fellows, you can be sure that if I had the cure for it all, I would post it in a heartbeat. Thanks to Jon, I am now in business...after having given up six weeks ago. So, perhaps we need to get more posters using this type of thread to generate fixes for us, one disgruntled user at a time. It is hardly a satisfactory sulution, but I hear that petitions to our hosts have gone unanswered. Couldn't Eric post a, "Folks, I understand that many of you are having problems with the new software that Kalmbach is now using. I have taken your observations to our IT section and they are working on fixes with the architects. Please be patient while we figure out what needs to be done." There, was that so hard?
Fellows, you can be sure that if I had the cure for it all, I would post it in a heartbeat. Thanks to Jon, I am now in business...after having given up six weeks ago. So, perhaps we need to get more posters using this type of thread to generate fixes for us, one disgruntled user at a time. It is hardly a satisfactory sulution, but I hear that petitions to our hosts have gone unanswered.
Couldn't Eric post a, "Folks, I understand that many of you are having problems with the new software that Kalmbach is now using. I have taken your observations to our IT section and they are working on fixes with the architects. Please be patient while we figure out what needs to be done."
There, was that so hard?
I know at least a few people have emailed Erik on this. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that they are trying to find a more general work-around. But it wouldn't hurt for people to email Erik and suggest to him that a sticky on how to post photos would be helpful in the meantime. He doesn't read every thread, so emailing him is the best way to communicate.
I think I've received a reply from him every time I emailed. But posting a "petition" in a thread is no guarantee it's been seen.