Is there a bandwidth limit now ?

[Greg Myers]

Keep getting this You are only allowed to upload 40.96kb.

[Greg Myers]

Does it ever reset ?

[Greg Myers]

Is this ,per day ? Post ? 

[bobthehobbyguy]

What does your counter say you have left for pictures on the site?  What is your process for posting photos?

[Jon Haigwood]

check your "attachment" total. I found out if it is full you cant download any more pics unless you delete some old ones. 

[bobthehobbyguy]

Yup that's what I meant.

[Harry P.]

There has always been a bandwidth limit here for posting images directly from your computer.

This forum gives you only a small amount of photo storage space, because it's not meant to act as a photo hosting site. The right way to post photos here is to open a photo hosting account, like Photobucket, upload all your photos there, then just post the link to the photo here in your post. That way we can see the image here in your post, but the actual image file sits on the photo hosting site's server taking up space on their server, not on our server. You can post as many photos here as you want that way and avoid this site's storage space restriction, because you're not "parking" the posted photos here, you're just posting a link to them.

[Greg Myers]

Yeah I get that. But I still get the twrilly thing when I try any other way of posting pictures. 

[Greg Myers]

check your "attachment" total. I found out if it is full you cant download any more pics unless you delete some old ones. 

sounds good. Where does one go to delete ? and, is this why some threads swow the "missing" photo box?

[Greg Myers]

I know in the past, before the posting of photo problem came up,I would delete a photo from my Photobucket only to discover later that the "missing" photo box had appeared in a thread I had posted in. 

[Harry P.]

I know in the past, before the posting of photo problem came up,I would delete a photo from my Photobucket only to discover later that the "missing" photo box had appeared in a thread I had posted in. 

Because when you put a photo on Photobucket (or any other photo hosting site) and then post the link to that photo here, we see the photo here because you have posted the link to it. If you delete the photo, obviously the link will no longer work because you deleted the photo, and the "missing photo" icon appears. The link can only work if it links to the photo! If you delete the photo, the link you have put into any post you make here becomes useless, because it's "linking" to a photo that isn't there!

[Jon Haigwood]

sounds good. Where does one go to delete ? and, is this why some threads swow the "missing" photo box?

use the drop down menu to the right of your name in the upper right corner. Click on "attachments" A list of pictures will come up. Click on the tiny garbage pail on the right to delete that attachment. And yes your post will be missing the photos you deleted.

Hope this helps  

[Greg Myers]

Because when you put a photo on Photobucket (or any other photo hosting site) and then post the link to that photo here, we see the photo here because you have posted the link to it. If you delete the photo, obviously the link will no longer work because you deleted the photo, and the "missing photo" icon appears. The link can only work if it links to the photo! If you delete the photo, the link you have put into any post you make here becomes useless, because it's "linking" to a photo that isn't there!

Yeah I get that. it's the part where you said I could post from Photobucket that doesn't work. Nothing but the twrilly thing. 

[Jon Haigwood]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/shadowolf50/duke2.jpg

from my photobucket, (it took three tries but figured out which fie type to copy before I got a photo rather than just a link) 

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/shadowolf50/media/duke2.jpg.html

Edited September 14, 2015 by Jon Haigwood

[Greg Myers]

only three trys ? That's encouraging.  

[Matt Bacon]

This forum gives you only a small amount of photo storage space, because it's not meant to act as a photo hosting site. The right way to post photos here is to open a photo hosting account, like Photobucket, upload all your photos there, then just post the link to the photo here in your post. 

...would that I could... I can post a clickable URL for the photo, but I've yet to find a way of getting the photo to appear in my response on this forum. You'd think that "insert image from URL" would do the job, but it just doesn't work.

bestest,

M.

Edited September 15, 2015 by Matt Bacon

[Greg Myers]

Yep. Just the twirrly thing. 

[Snake45]

I've found the best way now to post from Photobucket is to copy the "Direct" URL (I think it's the 4th/last one on the list), and then paste it between these:

(img) (/img)

BUT YOU WILL USE BRACKETS INSTEAD OF PARENTHESES.