Can't Upload Photos

[Visigoth]

Does the upload photos feature simply not work? I realize I can upload to flickr, whatever, and link -- but every time I try to "manage attachments," and upload a photo to the Lounge itself, it gives me an "upload failed" message. I've tried this with a couple of different browsers, using small jpg files.

Any hints? Or is this function disabled...

 

[Brad Bowers]

Photos can't be uploaded and stored on the Fedora Lounge. That's why you have to go through Photobucket or whatever. But using offsite storage and linking to them through the IMG tags is pretty easy.

Brad

 

[Visigoth]

Ah! Thanks! That explains it. (Might make sense to remove the feature from the interface, so obsessives like me don't spend ages trying to make it work...)

 

["Skeet" McD]

Mac-based?

Does the upload photos feature simply not work? I realize I can upload to flickr, whatever, and link -- but every time I try to "manage attachments," and upload a photo to the Lounge itself, it gives me an "upload failed" message. I've tried this with a couple of different browsers, using small jpg files.

Any hints? Or is this function disabled...

Dear Visigoth...had the same difficulty when I joined a month or so ago...tried and tried; wrote MK, and he was kind enough to reply. According to him, it's because I'm Mac-based (using mobileme as the host)....I don't know if this is, in point of fact, true....but I've been linking pictures via their URL in mobileme. It's not quite as elegant--folks have to click on the link, rather than just seeing the picture...but it works.

If you get it to work--and you're mac-based--I'll be happy to hear what did it for you.

Cheers,
"Skeet"

 

[Tomasso]

[QUOTE="Skeet" McD]I've been linking pictures via their URL in mobileme. It's not quite as elegant--folks have to click on the link, rather than just seeing the picture...but it works.

[/QUOTE]But why not just host your pix at Photobucket, then copy the image code and paste directly into your post?.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Nowt tae dae wi' yer Mac. Ye canna de it, Jim!

You must upload to an online imagehosting site, then link.

I'm a doctor, not a magician!

bk

 

["Skeet" McD]

Nowt tae dae wi' yer Mac. Ye canna de it, Jim!

You must upload to an online imagehosting site, then link.

I'm a doctor, not a magician!

bk

MVSICVS SVM NON MEDICVS VIS MAGVS....but that's sort of irrelevant...."mobileme" is Apple's online service, which offers image hosting among other things....which is why I'm using it rather than, say, Photobucket: I'm already there.

Thanks for the tip, nonetheless, Baron!

 

[Lefty]

not surprisingly, this is covered in the faq

 

[GWD]

Mobile Me has a problem but it's easily fixed. Once you copy the image address and then paste it in the photo window, simply erase everything after "jpg" that starts with the "?" it should work fine then.

example
http://gallery.me.com/example/100580/TLD_0087/web.jpg?ver=12374212760001

erase everything in red.

 

[Visigoth]

Well, it's in the FAQ, the business about linking to a photo uploaded elsewhere, but it should perhaps say, explicitly: the "Manage Attachments" option does not work. I mean, the option's sitting there tempting you all the time, so you *assume* it must work for somebody...