How to Post Pictures???

[Shoemaker Mobius]

How do you post pictures to this board in a reply? I tried using the file box at the bottom of posting replies, but I can't get it to work. Initially, I think the picture was too large because I would get an error indicating the file upload failed, try again. However, I saved the picture in a much smaller format (26K) and retried several times. Now, I get a really strange error stating I need to "CHMOD my OPENBB TMP directory to 777" or something similar. Any ideas here????

[Shoemaker Mobius]

Here is the exact error message:

Could not copy file. Please CHMOD your OpenBB's 'tmp' directory to 777.

[BensonWdby]

This CHMOD error is a Unix operating system (possibly Linux?) error that has to do with write permissions to a directory (most likely).



I just tried to insert this image - we'll see how it works.

Dave

[BensonWdby]

So the previous method of posting pictures using BB foromat codes works if you have a URL from a valid website. You just click on the "img" button in the message composition windo and specify the URL.

I am going to try using the Browse box at the bottom of the composition window.

I hit the same CHMOD error. The upload is smart enough to restrict size, so it recognizes the image. But the permissions on the directory are not set to allow Public write. This is actually pretty standard in the Unix world. So is this mistake. Giving public write to a directory is a potentially big security hole.

It will be interesting to see if they ever fix this for this BB.

Dave

[waterboy]

So Dave, does this mean that the message board is not capable of allowing us to post pics from our hard drive?

Brian

[BensonWdby]

Brian

I would say that is correct. My guess is the administrator tried it and it worked because he has the necessary privileges to write to that directory. Thus giving the appearance of the process working correctly. But until they get their security stuff figured out I doubt anyone can get it to work.

OPTION: If you would like to post your picutres to the web but do not know how or do not have any file space to load to, check out:

http://www.webshots.com

You can add about 75 photos, 3 albums of 25 each, for free and they stay up indefinitely. You deal with a little bit of advertsing, but once you get them up there you can use the 'img' capabilities of this board to refer to you photos URL.

Good luck,
Dave

[Shoemaker Mobius]

Okay, I have some photos on the webshots website. How do I use the img button to point to a particular picture of mine on the webshots website????

[BensonWdby]

Here's how to reference a photo at Webshots:
1. Go to Webshots and log in.
2. Navigate to your album and find the photo you want to reference in this post.
3. In the Address box of your browser Highlight the entire address, for my example it will be
http://community.webshots.com/script...ecurity=gGBNsk

Note that this is one continuous string, even if it does not look like it here.
4. In the message composition window of this board (after signing in correctly), click on the img button and a popup window will appear asking for the URL.
5. Paste the Webshots link in there. The image will not appear in the composition window, just the URL surrounded by some img tags.
6. Finish your message.
7. Submit you reply

Here is my attempt at following my own instructions.

[BensonWdby]

OK - Well that did not work so well...
Did you notice that the URL works for navigation....

I think the problem is that the URL is not actually the photo, but some kludge of WEBSHOT pathing and the photo. Based on this I tried something else.
Assuming you are using Internet Explorer:
1. Navigate to your webshot photo.
2. Right click while mouse is over the photo.
3. In the pop up window, select 'Properties'
4. In the properties window find the Address property and highlight the entire address, may be more than one line.
In my test case it is http://community.webshots.com/s/imag...8gGBNsk_ph.jpg

5. In the composition window for this board click on img, paste the URL
6. Finish message and submit.

Here goes nothing....

[LKGBOUND]

WELL, I PICKED UP MY '04 OUTBACK YESTERDAY AND SNAPPED A COUPLE OF PICTURES WHEN WE GOT HOME. NOW FOR A FEW WEEKS OF TORTURE JUST LOOKING AT IT IN THE DRIVEWAY AND NOT ABLE TO GET IT ON THE WATER. POSSIBLE SNOW FLURRIES TONIGHT!!! ANYWAY, I'M GONNA TRY MY HAND AT POSTING A COUPLE OF THE PICS...........

THE RIG............




READY FOR THE FLURRIES......