Picture attachments
#21
I hear you on arranging the photos when you're in the editor...I've done that. It works to get them in the right order. Once they go to the post though, they're all at the top. I recently discovered that you can highlight the pics, copy and paste them around in the post.
#22
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So basically, the whole post, pics and text, needs to be re-organized before posting. This seems to be every time, for me. I've not yet had pics enter the post where my cursor was when I clicked attach, since the new format.
#23
The re-arrangement holds; each picture stays where I put it, relative to the other pictures....but they're all piled up at the top of the post, with all the text below them...regardless of where the cursor was when I click on "attachments".
So basically, the whole post, pics and text, needs to be re-organized before posting. This seems to be every time, for me. I've not yet had pics enter the post where my cursor was when I clicked attach, since the new format.
So basically, the whole post, pics and text, needs to be re-organized before posting. This seems to be every time, for me. I've not yet had pics enter the post where my cursor was when I clicked attach, since the new format.
Unless you go through the Attachment process one at a time, all the attachments will be grouped together when they're uploaded together. Prior to posting, you can drag the images to the spot you want within the post. Looking at the Uploader prior to 6/19/18, this is the same behavior. So I'm not sure I fully understand the issue. It doesn't appear to me that you could change the location of each attachment any different.
Going back to prior the Uploader (atleast over year ago), the legacy attachment manager simply dumped them at the bottom of the post with no ability at all to move them.
#24
Team Owner
OK, I clicked on "reply", then hit my spacebar (4 times), to move the cursor down from the top of the dialog box, clicked on my "attach" icon, clicked on "browse my device", clicked on a random picture from my "pictures file" (a Chevelle I used to own), then hit "upload", and here's what I got. And I tried to move the picture down, by putting the cursor above the picture, but was unsuccessful.
Last edited by leadfoot4; 07-23-2018 at 01:50 PM.
#25
Melting Slicks
you mad bro...
The issue is, the forum is putting the image at the beginning of the reply/post. Add the image then type your message above it. Click on preview and you'll get to see what your post will look like before it goes out to the interwebs. Posted on Mac Book Pro, Safari with ad blocker and all the other crap still running.
Can add photos further down line as well... add image and cut and past to the location you desire in the post.
The issue is, the forum is putting the image at the beginning of the reply/post. Add the image then type your message above it. Click on preview and you'll get to see what your post will look like before it goes out to the interwebs. Posted on Mac Book Pro, Safari with ad blocker and all the other crap still running.
Can add photos further down line as well... add image and cut and past to the location you desire in the post.
Last edited by HooosierDaddy; 07-23-2018 at 02:40 PM.
#26
OK, I clicked on "reply", then hit my spacebar (4 times), to move the cursor down from the top of the dialog box, clicked on my "attach" icon, clicked on "browse my device", clicked on a random picture from my "pictures file" (a Chevelle I used to own), then hit "upload", and here's what I got. And I tried to move the picture down, by putting the cursor above the picture, but was unsuccessful.
#27
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Pro Mechanic
["attach]098452058[/attach"] (quotes added so it wouldn't try to attach something). That compact format in the dialogue box made it not only possible, but easy to copy and plop the pic anywhere you wanted w/in your already typed out text. OR plop 'em then type....whatever. It was easy....and you could do it.
Now, you can do it too, like hoosierDaddy said. But it's harder/confusing sometimes b/c the pics are so big in the dialogue box, it's hard to know what you've actually highlighted and are copying/pasting.
My biggest gripe at the moment though, is that I can't post a pic from my MAC. That and when you edit immediately, it adds vthatv, below.
Last edited by Tom400CFI; 07-23-2018 at 03:54 PM.
#28
Correct. On the PC that is how it works. On the PC the only "gripe" is that they all go to the top.
Well that's not true though. It WOULD dump them all together at the bottom, but they'd be in the order I wanted them (which we can do w/the current one [on a PC]), BUT, re-arranging them was cake. In your posting dialogue box, each attachment would look something like this:
["attach]098452058[/attach"] (quotes added so it wouldn't try to attach something). That compact format in the dialogue box made it not only possible, but easy to copy and plop the pic anywhere you wanted w/in your already typed out text. OR plop 'em then type....whatever. It was easy....and you could do it.
Now, you can do it too, like hoosierDaddy said. But it's harder/confusing sometimes b/c the pics are so big in the dialogue box, it's hard to know what you've actually highlighted and are copying/pasting.
My biggest gripe at the moment though, is that I can't post a pic from my MAC. That and when you edit immediately, it adds vthatv, below.
Well that's not true though. It WOULD dump them all together at the bottom, but they'd be in the order I wanted them (which we can do w/the current one [on a PC]), BUT, re-arranging them was cake. In your posting dialogue box, each attachment would look something like this:
["attach]098452058[/attach"] (quotes added so it wouldn't try to attach something). That compact format in the dialogue box made it not only possible, but easy to copy and plop the pic anywhere you wanted w/in your already typed out text. OR plop 'em then type....whatever. It was easy....and you could do it.
Now, you can do it too, like hoosierDaddy said. But it's harder/confusing sometimes b/c the pics are so big in the dialogue box, it's hard to know what you've actually highlighted and are copying/pasting.
My biggest gripe at the moment though, is that I can't post a pic from my MAC. That and when you edit immediately, it adds vthatv, below.
#29
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Pro Mechanic
Hi JT.
I guess it's not just the MAC; I'm at work and can't upload a single pic from my PC, either. Two things have changed over the weekend (I know you say "nothing's changed");
1. When I click the attachment icon above -the paperclip with the down arrow next to it, it used to open the DL'ing box/window. Now it opens a small box, maybe 2" by 2" on my monitor with a grey line at the top that says "add attachments". Below that grey box inside greater the 2x2 white box, is a line that says; "Select files to insert inline" That box wasn't there last week....it just went straight to the dl'ing big box/window. It dose this new thing the same on my MAC at home, and the PC here at work.
2. I could upload pics last week. I can't this week from any computer, apparently.
Tried to a minute ago, HERE
I guess it's not just the MAC; I'm at work and can't upload a single pic from my PC, either. Two things have changed over the weekend (I know you say "nothing's changed");
1. When I click the attachment icon above -the paperclip with the down arrow next to it, it used to open the DL'ing box/window. Now it opens a small box, maybe 2" by 2" on my monitor with a grey line at the top that says "add attachments". Below that grey box inside greater the 2x2 white box, is a line that says; "Select files to insert inline" That box wasn't there last week....it just went straight to the dl'ing big box/window. It dose this new thing the same on my MAC at home, and the PC here at work.
2. I could upload pics last week. I can't this week from any computer, apparently.
Tried to a minute ago, HERE
#30
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Pro Mechanic
Update. Typically at work, I'm browsing on Chrome. I can't post a pic today with Chrome, on a PC at work. I could last week. Out of curiosity, I just signed in to the forum (at work on my PC) on Microsoft Edge....same thing. Can't post a pic. Then I tried signing in and posting a pic using IE. Can't post a pic. I can't post a pic. Doesn't matter where I am, the browser, the computer....Safari. Chrome, IE, ME....I can't post a pic.
#31
Update. Typically at work, I'm browsing on Chrome. I can't post a pic today with Chrome, on a PC at work. I could last week. Out of curiosity, I just signed in to the forum (at work on my PC) on Microsoft Edge....same thing. Can't post a pic. Then I tried signing in and posting a pic using IE. Can't post a pic. I can't post a pic. Doesn't matter where I am, the browser, the computer....Safari. Chrome, IE, ME....I can't post a pic.
#32
Team Owner
Pro Mechanic
How likely is it that my work block me from uploading pics over the weekend? Not very.
How likely is it that my worked blocked uploads...but not browsing and posting?
Finally, How likely is it that my worked blocked whatever over the weekend...and then my home 'net provider also blocked me uploading too?
What do you suggest? I've got a 1/2 done 'Vette Kart build thread. What should I do with that thread and the covering of this cool build?
How likely is it that my worked blocked uploads...but not browsing and posting?
Finally, How likely is it that my worked blocked whatever over the weekend...and then my home 'net provider also blocked me uploading too?
What do you suggest? I've got a 1/2 done 'Vette Kart build thread. What should I do with that thread and the covering of this cool build?
#33
Team Owner
Pro Mechanic
Apparently I can post pics from my phone (Chrome). IDK why that chrome works but PC Chrome doesn't work. Just more info for you, if it helps.
#34
Again, I don't know anything about your work. But as I stated above, the Attachments resources are not hosted directly by CorvetteForum. Therefore, you could post and use CorvetteForum even if your IT guys are filtering/blocking content.
#35
#36
Team Owner
Pro Mechanic
I don't know what extensions are...or plug ins. I haven't changed anything on my work PC OR my home MAC....yet I can't post pics on either, using several browsers (as you're probably aware by now).
#37
#38
Team Owner
Pro Mechanic
None? IDK. At home, nothing that I'm aware of. It's a MAC...it never gets viruses! Here at work, I have no idea. But I doubt that changed it over the weekend....IDK though.
#39
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Pro Mechanic
If it were security, or settings....why can I get into the attachments window, select my attachments, get them each/all uploaded....then the failure occurs when I click the "upload" button that should plop them into the post? The actual uploading of all the data that IS the pics occurs in the attachments box. I bet all my pics are uploaded and stored...somewhere; I've uploaded 'em all! The failure, IMO appears to be in the linking of the upload location...to the post. That connection doesn't happen....in my lay observation.
#40
If it were security, or settings....why can I get into the attachments window, select my attachments, get them each/all uploaded....then the failure occurs when I click the "upload" button that should plop them into the post? The actual uploading of all the data that IS the pics occurs in the attachments box. I bet all my pics are uploaded and stored...somewhere; I've uploaded 'em all! The failure, IMO appears to be in the linking of the upload location...to the post. That connection doesn't happen....in my lay observation.
If I may turn the tables here. Why can I and others in this thread such as HooosierDaddy and leadfoot4 post pictures as recently as today but not you? This thread was originally about the insertion of attachments up at the top and not where one expected. It was not about being unable to upload anything. So far you're the only one who has this issue of not being able to upload anything. There is something specific to your settings, environment, etc. I have been trying to figure out your issue but I can only do so much when it appears it may not be within our control.