Posting photos on the Grumble - weird problem

[Framar]

In the last couple of weeks I have been finding that most of the time when I try to snag a photo from an image search (IOW, not one of my own personal photos) it is a complete toss up as to whether I can post it or not.

I click on "From URL" and uncheck the "Reference locally" box, paste in the address, click OK - and NOTHING happens. I click and click and click and NADA. So I try to close the box and the following box pops up:

"Some of the options have been changed. Are you sure you want to close the dialog?" Then there are two options, OK and Cancel. OK in this case means to close the dialog and Cancel means to give up.

I honestly spent a half and hour just now and I tried dozens of images from all over the web - and granted, there are some images that one is not allowed to copy, but these all copied, and when checked, each URL seemed complete.

My question - is this MY problem or is anyone else experiencing such difficulties?

 

[Framar]

As an addendum to my inquiry - I have been successfully posting photos on the Grumble for over a decade - this is a recent problem I have encountered.

 

[Larry Peterson]

I have no trouble at all.

If you are having trouble, the most likely culprit that the address that you are entering is not valid. Just to review how to get an image's address.

1. When you find an image you want, right click on the image and select "Open Image in new tab" or whatever your browser says for doing that.

2. when the image is displayed in its's own window, select the address in the browser bar (CTRL-A for windows).

3. Copy the address (CTRL-C for windows) into the 'From URL" box and uncheck the "Reference Locally" box.

If you can't open the image in it's own window, then most likely you can't copy the image.

I just did this using the image below.

I'm sure that you know this, but just in case.

 

[Framar]

That is exactly the procedure I have always followed and continue to follow. It just seems odd that suddenly the process no longer works for me. After I click OK on the original box, NOTHING happens! The only way I can escape it is to click the upper right X which brings up the "Some of the options have been changed" box.

I also (this morning) tried dozens of images from dozens of sites - they cannot all have been verboten images. Or is that just a fluke that in the last couple of months all I have chosen to try to post are illegal images?

Some of the options have changed - what does that mean???

(Clever use of my own photo, BTW, Larry! )

 

[Larry Peterson]

After I click OK on the original box, NOTHING happens! The only way I can escape it is to click the upper right X which brings up the "Some of the options have been changed" box.


Some of the options have changed - what does that mean???

I don't get the 'Some of the................" message. If you figure that out, you might have a winner.

BTW, it does seem to take a little longer after you click the OK button for things to resolve. How long have you waited after clicking the OK button?

 

[Rick Granick]

Mar, instead of going through all those choices, the easiest way to post a pictures is to copy the image's URL from the slot at the top of your browser, then start your Grumble reply and where you want the photo, type in , then paste in your linked URL, then type the same thing, but with a / before the img within the brackets. (Don't add any spaces within or between the bracketed codes, and be sure you are copying the URL of the IMAGE itself, not the page on which it appears.)

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Detail_shot_of_budgerigars_head.jpg/220px-Detail_shot_of_budgerigars_head.jpg
"No problem, lovely budgie."

Rick

 

[Framar]

I get that dialog box all the time. It used to be that you could just click OK and the image would appear. Now, even if I wait a few seconds, I can click and click and click and nothing happens.

I did finally manage to make an end run around this problem and post the desired image on Chickie's birthday thread.

How I did it: I relocated the image, downloaded it to my computer, posted it on her Facebook page, copied that image URL, and was able to successfully post it to the Grumble.

Baffling.....

 

[Mike Labbe]

The grumble did have a major upgrade last week, going about 15 updates ahead of what it had before. It's possible that some of the procedural steps have changed from what they were before.

If saving them on the forum, there's also a physical limit on how many each person can store on the server. (to preserve disk space)

Many websites will block a third party website from linking to/referencing their images, because this eats up the (picture hosts) bandwidth. It's possible that the host site doesn't allow their images to be re-displayed in this way.

These are three possibilities that come to mind.

I am not in a place where I can try it now, but my guess would be one of those.

Mike

PS: Have you tried a different browser? I know a lot of people are having issues with IE9 for various websites. I would give FireFox or Chrome a try, if you are using IE.

 

[Framar]

I am using Firefox, and this problem seems to have arisen about the time the Grumble made an upgrade before this last one - I remember when Bill did the most recent upgrade I thought to meself, didn't he just do one a few months ago?

I never had any problems at all in the past, unless I happened to run into a protected image.

 

[Mike Labbe]

The one before last week was probably mid 2011.

Mike

 

[Framar]

I don't think this was a major upgrade, just some tweaking, as I recall.

I dunno, my memory may be failing me in my dotage...

 

[Framar]

I was just doing some research - Bill put in a new server last February. Mikey mentioned he was having a problem with posting emoticons. That is a problem I have also been having lately, they post on some forums but not others - no rhyme or reason that I can see.

 

[David Waldmann]

I had the same problem today. If I click OK nothing happens. The only way I can close the dialog is to Cancel. I, too, feel fairly experienced posting pics on The Grumble (and elsewhere), so I don't think it's operator error.

It was not an issue with the host not allowing it, as when I manually put it in using

tags it works fine.

I was using Firefox 15.0.1 on Mac.

 

[David Waldmann]

Some of the options have changed - what does that mean???

I took it as another way of saying "Are you sure you want to cancel?". I get the same message.

Larry/Mike/whoever has it working right - if you enter a URL, uncheck the box, and then click Cancel, do you get that message? Or does the box just go away?

 

[Larry Peterson]

I took it as another way of saying "Are you sure you want to cancel?". I get the same message.

Larry/Mike/whoever has it working right - if you enter a URL, uncheck the box, and then click Cancel, do you get that message? Or does the box just go away?

I don't get the message and the dialog box goes away after I click OK and the image appears in the editing box after that. I am using Chrome with Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing and Enhanced Attachment Uploading turned on.

 

[Framar]

Grrrr - this time it worked - I have tried clicking Cancel when that first box comes up, and it never works - once I click OK and nothing happens, the only thing that works is the X in the upper right corner, which brings up the second box.

So wouldn't you know I try just now to see if I can do it - the stupid picture has to go and post on the first try!

Baffled I am.

 

[Mike Labbe]

I took it as another way of saying "Are you sure you want to cancel?". I get the same message.

Larry/Mike/whoever has it working right - if you enter a URL, uncheck the box, and then click Cancel, do you get that message? Or does the box just go away?

I always use IMG tags. Never tried it with the pop up thing.

 

[Framar]

So, Mike, how do you do it using IMG tags? I have always used the tools accompanying the reply function.

 

[Mike Labbe]

So, Mike, how do you do it using IMG tags? I have always used the tools accompanying the reply function.

right while typing in the editor, you can just put the full link with IMG tags around it. example:

[ IMG ]http://www.link.com/filename.jpg[ /IMG ]

If you removed the four blank spaces from the above, it would be the correct format.

Mike

 

[Framar]

Thanks, Mike - I'll try that the next time I run into a problem.

 

[David Waldmann]

I don't get the message and the dialog box goes away after I click OK and the image appears in the editing box after that.

What I wanted to know was, what happens if you click Cancel?.

I believe that the message has nothing to do (directly) with the problem. It's just the boards way of saying "Are you sure you don't want to save?".

I am still having the same issue this morning, on Firefox 16.0.2 on Win7 x64.

 

[Mike Labbe]

I did some digging on the software developers forum and do see a related issue/bug/firefox compat issue. It only happens if using a newer version of Firefox in conjunction with the WYSIWYG message editor.

This problem only occurs using Firefox version 15 and above. It's reproducible here by following these steps.
1) Click Insert Image
2) Make sure you are in WYSIWYG mode
3) Select file from computer and upload it
at this point everything is fine. Now repeat steps 1~3 and you will see the second image is not displayed.

This FireFox compat issue may or may not be related to what is causing the issue you are seeing, but if so they are aware of it. IMG tags are a good fix, until the next update in early 2013.

Mike

 

[David Waldmann]

Okedoke.
Thanks,

 

[Framar]

Just posted three new pix over in Warped. System did not work and when I tried to click Cancel on the first screen, after the OK did not work, the second box popped up.

So the IMG HTML worked beautifully. Thank you Mike!!!!!

 

[Steve Collins]

That is exactly the procedure I have always followed and continue to follow. It just seems odd that suddenly the process no longer works for me. After I click OK on the original box, NOTHING happens! The only way I can escape it is to click the upper right X which brings up the "Some of the options have been changed" box.

I also (this morning) tried dozens of images from dozens of sites - they cannot all have been verboten images. Or is that just a fluke that in the last couple of months all I have chosen to try to post are illegal images?

Some of the options have changed - what does that mean???

(Clever use of my own photo, BTW, Larry! )

I ran into this myself a few weeks ago and figured out how to work around it. It seems that if you try to insert an image after putting other content in the post, nothing happens. The work around is to insert the image before doing anything else. You can then add other stuff to the post as desired. This works for me anyway.

 

[David Waldmann]

Weird, but true.

 

[Larry Peterson]

I ran into this myself a few weeks ago and figured out how to work around it. It seems that if you try to insert an image after putting other content in the post, nothing happens. The work around is to insert the image before doing anything else. You can then add other stuff to the post as desired. This works for me anyway.

Yet, that works fine for me.

I inserted this after writing the text above.

I am using Chrome withEnhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing and Enhanced Attachment Uploading turned on. I am going to try it with FireFox.

 

[Larry Peterson]

This a test with FireFox 16.0.2 using W7 Ultimate.

Doesn't work at all - get the same error as every one else - time to use one of your other browsers

[ I M G ] works fine.

 

[Larry Peterson]

This is a test with IE9.

Works just peachy

 

[Larry Peterson]

This is a test with Opera 11.50

No problems here

 

[Framar]

Y'all do not have any idea how relieved I am to find I am not the only one with this wonky problem!!!

Thank you everyone!!!

 

[Larry Peterson]

This is a test with Safari 5.1

And Safari works as well. If anyone else has any other browsers installed, why don't you give it a go. Seems like the current version of FF is the only culprit.

 

[Mike Labbe]

That's what they said - that it was an issue in the newest Firefox only. It is paranoid about some security setting and causing this to happen, in some cases.

Mike

 

[Peter Odems]

No prblems in Safari 4, 5 and 6.

 

[Steve Collins]

This a test with FireFox 16.0.2 using W7 Ultimate.

Doesn't work at all - get the same error as every one else - time to use one of your other browsers

[ I M G ] works fine.

Exactly; I run into it only in Firefox.

 

[David Waldmann]

If anyone else has any other browsers installed, why don't you give it a go.

Because FF is where all my stuff is. Plugins, bookmarks, toolbar setups, etc.

Plus, IMG tags works just fine...