Am I (or my PCs) being a wally or have all the pictures vanished from the forum? If not any clues why I just get a little box with a cross in it instead?
Sorry if I'm being thick.
John
Quote from: Isle of Stoner on July 23, 2010, 00:23
Am I (or my PCs) being a wally or have all the pictures vanished from the forum? If not any clues why I just get a little box with a cross in it instead?
Sorry if I'm being thick.
John
You're not alone: happened to me, too.
Quote from: MikeC on July 23, 2010, 09:10
Quote from: Isle of Stoner on July 23, 2010, 00:23
Am I (or my PCs) being a wally or have all the pictures vanished from the forum? If not any clues why I just get a little box with a cross in it instead?
Sorry if I'm being thick.
John
You're not alone: happened to me, too.
But not to me, yet.
favouritism? ha ha
John,
I've just had a look through various postings and sections in the forum and think I have the answer:
Photos that have been posted via a hosting site such as flickr and photobucket etc appear to be showing OK, however those that have been put on as attachments to postings seem to have all been disabled, including several that I have posted myself in this way.
Members avatars are also affected, some being disabled but some showing OK. Not sure why as I don't use an avatar myself, but imagine it is related to the error I have identified above. I suggest that you report this fault to the webmaster if your own photos are affected, I will also report this by separate means.
Mick
As MickT has said, avatar's have been affected also. I checked mine in my profile - no avatar ? Tried to upload it again and received an error message stating " An Error Has Occurred! The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved. " ???
I've reported the fault to Alan Rolfe, the Society memsec who also runs the admin control for the forum but does not have technical access to the software. He has in turn reported the error on to John Jacobs, who is the webmaster. I have received the following email message, which is addressed to all members, but I am not sure who Alan has actually sent it to, so I am posting it here for the benefit of anyone who is not aware that the problem is indeed being looked into
Mick
Dear all
We are aware of a problem at the moment with adding attachments or avatars. Attachments that have been added are not presently viewable.
We're looking to see what's causing the problem and hopefully fix it!
I'll let you know when it is working again. In the meantime, if you have images hosted elsewhere, perhaps through Flickr or Photobucket or similar then these are working so you may want to consider that option in the short term.
Regards,
Alan
Mem Sec
The 009 Society Forum Team.
http://www.009society.com/forum/index.php
The problem with photo attachments has now been resolved. You should be able to see them all (and avatars as well). ;D
John Jacobs
009 Society Web Admin
Excuse my ignorance but what are / is an 'avatar' , that in all honesty ,
cheers john ..
Quote from: clanky on July 31, 2010, 17:22
Excuse my ignorance but what are / is an 'avatar' , that in all honesty ,
cheers john ..
The little picture ECMT has under his user name on the left
IMPORTANT
You will notice a repeat of the problems of a couple of weeks ago with avatars and pictures that have been sent as attachments are missing again. Following a database crash during yesterday evening I had to rebuild the entire Forum from scratch. I have been able to recover all the data and rebuild the Forum to the point at which it failed, approx 20:35 on the 6th August. The only file I was not able to recover is the file containing the attachments.
I will put my hand up and say that the loss of the attachments was my fault. I did not realise that the pictures were not held on the database, they were in a separate file which was over written when I restored the Forum's code. Only the link to the attachments is in the database, not the actual pictures. Pictures that have been uploaded from other sources have not been lost.
You can replace the missing avatars by going to your profile and uploading them again. You may be able to upload the missing photos by modifying the original posting by attaching the photo again.
All I can say is sorry once again but lessons have been learnt.
John J
009 Society Website Admin
Can anyone tell me how to upload a photo from my picture file on my PC into a 009 Forum post please? ???
As with other forums, the recommended way is to use a hosting site and load your image from there - so that you don't eat up bandwidth on the forum itself and you don't link directly from your own computer. I use photobucket by preference for this purpose, but others like Flickr and Picasaweb amongst others. All 3 mentioned are free and it is simply a case of registering at the website and away you go!
However you can upload an image in this forum as a simple attachment from your own computer by clicking on the "Additional Options" link below the text box and then click the Browse button next to the "Attach" window that opens. Browse your folders to find the image filename that you want to insert. Double click and the file path will appear in the Attach window. Simple! Don't forget that the maximum size of attachments is 300kb and the maximum number used this way is 4 per posting
A down side of using this method is that if you Preview your post before submitting it, you will not see the attachment so you have to hope that you have selected the correct file path and indeed the correct image and then check it after making the posting. You can always edit it afterwards, but it is a much more cumbersome method of posting images than using a hosting site!
Hope this helps
Mick