posting pics in forums

[geraldp]

Hi:

For the past couple of weeks I've been unable to post pictures in forums. I'm not sure what's going on, as I have been successful in the past. From my post I click "Manage Attachments" below, which brings up a form. From there I pick Browse..., then browse to my picture (which is less than 200kb big). Then I hit Upload. It says Uploading files, please wait. It then gives me a standard Windows Explorer message, telling me :

The page cannot be displayed
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Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer

Please help, thanks.

Jerry

 

[The Chairman]

Hmnnnn,

I have been uploading just fine. Let's see if Tech Admin has any fruits of wisdom.

 

[Ted S]

Are you on dialup or broadband (cable/dsl)? As a test try posting a small attachment like my avatar (right click the image, select "save picture as", save it to your desktop, and try to attach like you would normally do). It sounds like either the file upload is taking too long and timing out your browser or you have some very high security settings stopping the upload.

 

[geraldp]

Are you on dialup or broadband (cable/dsl)? As a test try posting a small attachment like my avatar (right click the image, select "save picture as", save it to your desktop, and try to attach like you would normally do). It sounds like either the file upload is taking too long and timing out your browser or you have some very high security settings stopping the upload.

Yup, that seems to work. I'm on a broadband at work (T1). So somewhere in my browser preferences I either have a time-out set too short or have some security settings set too high. Got any ideas as to where to look to fix this?

Thanks,

Jerry

 

[Ted S]

Tools -> Internet Options -> Security (Advanced also has some relevant settings).

 

[baltimoron]

hmm... I like the IMG code, but that's only do-able here...

is there a specific reason one cannot use the IMG code?

 

[yukoneer]

yeah! i am dissapointed that I couldn;t use the IMG code... thats much easier than saving it in my computer then uploading it here.

funny, when I was going to make a new post in support, there was a button that lets me do the IMG code, however when I made a post in FLA couch divers, there was no IMG tag, and I entered it manually, the image only shows up as a link...

 

[Marek K]

Tools -> Internet Options -> Security (Advanced also has some relevant settings).

Tech--

I've been having the exact same problem recently. Doesn't work, with an image attachment as small as 30 KB... I thought that was well under the maximum allowed.

Your mascot-75.gif avatar attached just fine here, but it's teenie -- less than 4 KB.

I've got an ADSL 512 connection.

I'm set at Medium security level under Tools -> Internet Options -> Security... in any case, there's nothing there about uploading; nor under Advanced.

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

--Marek

 

[geraldp]

Tech--

I've been having the exact same problem recently. Doesn't work, with an image attachment as small as 30 KB... I thought that was well under the maximum allowed.

Your mascot-75.gif avatar attached just fine here, but it's teenie -- less than 4 KB.

I've got an ADSL 512 connection.

I'm set at Medium security level under Tools -> Internet Options -> Security... in any case, there's nothing there about uploading; nor under Advanced.

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

--Marek

I was never successful either... I now suspect it has something to do with the firewall settings I have here at work. The problem exists on both of my work computers, but I haven't tried it yet from my home computer.

Jerry