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(Message started by: william wu on May 28^th, 2004, 4:15pm)

Title: test attachments
Post by william wu on May 28^th, 2004, 4:15pm

test

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Methuselah on Jul 11^th, 2004, 7:03am

Please, can someone explain in simple, non-tech language how I attach a jpg image (stored in my computer, not on a website) to the matter I am posting? I click the 'Browse button' and get the file reference into the box, but the image doesn't get attached to the message. So what am I not doing?

Help, please.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Jul 11^th, 2004, 8:07am

Well, that should do it..
Unless perhaps the file is too big (must be under 200 kilobyte)

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Methuselah on Jul 11^th, 2004, 9:26am

I'm sorry, towr, it does not do it. I tried again -- the jpg image is only 6.57 kb, and I tried yet again and did not get it in the preview, and not in the post either -- so I removed it. Trying here again-

My picture (it is in the attach box now, but do I give a ref. here inside the message, pinpointing the location, and if so how?)

E:\Documents and Settings\psk\My Documents\My Pictures\A0337.jpg

Let's see if anything happens
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ps: Nothing happened.So what am I not doing?

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Jul 11^th, 2004, 11:47am

Well, I think the best I can do is just give an example of what I do.. (and this is it, pressing post should do it now)

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Sir Col on Jul 11^th, 2004, 3:01pm

on 07/11/04 at 09:26:36, Methuselah wrote:

I tried yet again and did not get it in the preview, and not in the post either -- so I removed it.

Hi Methuselah!

You cannot preview your image, you can only post it. If you click Browse and select an image, then click Preview, your image and the reference to it is lost on the preview page.

Does that make sense?

Try making a post now... Click Browse, locate the image on your computer, after clicking OK/Open, click Post and hopefully that should do it.

What I do sometimes when creating my post is preview it so that the text part is correct, once I am happy, and before I click the Post button, I attach the image.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Methuselah on Jul 11^th, 2004, 5:34pm

Trying now -- I didn't re-attach the image after pre-viewing, though I saw the info disppeared from the attach box. If you see me below, it means I got it right this time. Thanks every one.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Michael_Dagg on Apr 24^th, 2005, 10:59pm

I see I had to register to get the attachments button to display. But I thought I had already registered here but sure can't remember what variation of my name I used.

MD

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by rmsgrey on Apr 25^th, 2005, 8:23am

on 04/24/05 at 22:59:00, Michael_Dagg wrote:

I see I had to register to get the attachments button to display. But I thought I had already registered here but sure can't remember what variation of my name I used.

MD

Browsing the "members" list turns up "MichaelDagg" who registered in February this year...

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Barukh on Aug 28^th, 2005, 9:39pm

I need some help... Lately, I am not able to make attachments (demonstration follows).

Does it happen only on my computer?

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Aug 29^th, 2005, 12:17am

You uploaded
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBAttachments/Cover_A_Curve.gif
?

In which case I'd say the board script uploaded the image with lowercase extension (gif iso GIF). The problem occurs because the same replacement isn't made elsewhere plus the fact the server is case sensitive (despite the fact that I'm pretty sure that's against the webstandard)

The solution is of course to make sure the extention is lowercase.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Barukh on Aug 29^th, 2005, 4:00am

Thanks, towr. I tried to attach the "right" case picture, but didn't succeed. Seems my configuration gets worse and worse...

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Aug 30^th, 2005, 11:52am

test

[e] well that cinches it, it's not just you :P [/e]

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Aug 30^th, 2005, 3:00pm

testing

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Aug 30^th, 2005, 3:05pm

I can't see alien_greetings.gif nor towr's test.jpg in this topic, but I see all other attachments. What gives?? ???

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Aug 30^th, 2005, 3:29pm

on 08/30/05 at 15:05:59, alien wrote:

What gives?? ???

That's what we'd all like to know..
It might be as simple as new attachment getting the wrong permissions when uploaded, then again it could be something more sinister.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by ecoist on Apr 25^th, 2006, 11:07am

I took Sir_Col's advice when posting a problem but I got the error message that the file could not be uploaded because it exceeded the server's capacity by "-1 kilobytes"! The file was a .gif file of about 2.5 kilobytes. Couldn't attach it here either. Same error message.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Icarus on Apr 25^th, 2006, 2:32pm

The directory that the attachments are saved in has a size limit, which it has reached. Until William comes up with a solution, local attachments are no longer possible.

The only way you are going to be able to post an image is to put it on some other site and then link to it here using the [img]your url here[/img] tags.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jul 17^th, 2006, 6:26pm

Quote:

The directory that the attachments are saved in has a size limit, which it has reached.

Seems to be happening again.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Aug 15^th, 2006, 10:02pm

If you want to talk about problems, I am very lonely, I drink, I have no friends, I am unemployed, I have schizophrenia and I like riddles. Either than that, why do I have to log in over and over again? There is an option to stay logged in all the time, but it obviously does not work. Would someone like to fix this? And if not, why not?

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Roy on Aug 15^th, 2006, 11:53pm

My always logged in works, as long as my airport is on. For me, I'm also lonley, friendless, a riddle maniac, worst of all im just too depressed to do anything but this site

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Aug 16^th, 2006, 6:45am

on 08/15/06 at 22:02:10, alien wrote:

If you want to talk about problems, I am very lonely, I drink, I have no friends, I am unemployed, I have schizophrenia and I like riddles.

You sound like The Man Who Fell to Earth, except that he also complained about his pink champagne. :)

By the way, if you are lonely this is not the best thread to post in. :)

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Icarus on Aug 16^th, 2006, 6:22pm

The "always logged in" feature requires a cookie on your machine to work. Every time you clear the cookies off your machine, you will have to log in again. (Your machine must be accepting the cookies, or else every time you changed screens, you would be logged back out - that happened to me once, and it was quite annoying until I found out what was going on.)

You probably have some utility that clears cookies automatically. If so, you will need to read up on it to figure out how to get it to leave the wu forums cookie alone.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Oct 7^th, 2006, 1:28pm

on 08/16/06 at 18:22:39, Icarus wrote:

You probably have some utility that clears cookies automatically. If so, you will need to read up on it to figure out how to get it to leave the wu forums cookie alone.

I just reinstalled Windows ME, and no such luck regarding logging in. Here are my IE settings regarding cookies:

Internet Options, Security, Custom Level:
Allow cookies that are stored on your computer: ENABLED
Allow per-session cookies (not stored): ENABLED

So what gives? Is it possible that winamp is responsible for my above troubles? If so, I will sentence it to 10 years in maximum-security cyber prison. ;)

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Sameer on Oct 7^th, 2006, 4:57pm

on 10/07/06 at 13:28:02, alien wrote:

I just reinstalled Windows ME..

I stopped reading after windows ME. Sir, you need to buy Windows XP.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Oct 8^th, 2006, 7:46am

on 10/07/06 at 16:57:17, Sameer wrote:

I stopped reading after windows ME. Sir, you need to buy Windows XP.

Why? It's already been superseded by vista, hasn't it.
Besides unless you can get a cheap OEM version, windows is rediculously overpriced. Just switch to linux, at least it's free.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Icarus on Oct 8^th, 2006, 12:01pm

I certainly agree that just about anything is better than ME (I once used it for about 3 months, and will never forgive Microsoft for deigning to sell such garbage - I even had better luck with Windows 95).

As for Alien's problem: I don't know anything about winamp. All I can tell you is that the "always logged in" feature works by a cookie stored on your PC. If it is failing for you, then my guess has to be that something is deleting, or otherwise corrupting, the cookie.

Double check your settings for this site to make sure that the "always logged in" box is checked. Then hunt down the "wu forums" cookies in your cookie folder. Once you know what the cookies are, exit or log off or reboot, or do whatever it is that happens between your visits here where the logged-in part fails. Before visiting the forums again, check to see if the cookies you identified are still there.

If any are gone, then you will need to track down what is deleting them. If they aren't, I'm out of ideas as to what could be wrong. You may want to send a message to William to ask him about it. :(

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Oct 8^th, 2006, 12:27pm

I suppose ME is no match for XP, but I choose this 'garbage' over XP regarding interface. Of course, I need to upgrade my PC, but if you ask me, XP's interface belongs to garbage department, not ME's.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Oct 8^th, 2006, 12:45pm

Yes, this is a cookie mystery. ??? I reboot, and the wu cookie is still there. Then I connect to this forum, and that is the precise moment when the cookie disappears. After logging in for the zillionth time, the cookie appears. But why was it deleted when I pressed the standard link connecting to this forum? Yet another riddle still unsolved..

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Grimbal on Oct 8^th, 2006, 12:58pm

I do have an explanation. Cookies time out. They have a validity deadline. It makes sense that this deadline is checked at the time the cookie is needed. Your browser finds the cookie, reads it, finds it is outdated and deletes it.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Oct 8^th, 2006, 2:53pm

Any way to get around this? Do I write certain date somewhere, alter IE settings, or my hands are tied in this matter? Can I delete all other cookies, except for the one in question, will that help? It is not a big problem, but it is a bit annoying. ;)

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Sir Col on Oct 8^th, 2006, 4:34pm

This is a bit of a stab in the dark, but... a common reason for this is that you may have recently had your system date/time set incorrectly. When you visit the forum, the cookie is updated with a "current" time/date stamp based on your PC system time/date. If your system time was wrong and you fixed it, then the next time you log in the cookie would be checked and it would now have expired, hence deleted.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by towr on Oct 9^th, 2006, 12:32am

The expiration for the forum cookies on my computer are set in the year 2038, and I doubt it's much different for others. So it's unlikely they are expiring.

Have you tried using another browser and seeing if you have the same problem there?

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Icarus on Oct 9^th, 2006, 4:09pm

Is the date/time on your PC operating correctly? If you have a hardware problem that prevents your PC from properly tracking time, that may explain the dilemma. Date comparisons at the ends of the "epoch" are a little dicey, so it may think its default date (Jan 1, 1970 for MS products) is actually greater than the 2038 cookie date.

*************

The problem I had with ME was that it gave me the joy of having to reboot my computer on average at least once a day (some days I would get by without it hanging, but others it would hang two or three times). All I was doing was web-surfing - and not even to intensive sites (mostly web comics). Switching to 2000 Office solved that problem, and XP has given me no trouble at all. Maybe MS has fixed the bugs in ME since then, but I still consider the fact that they released it in the condition they did to be fraud.

XP can be set up to mimic the "classic" Windows user interface (I half do this). Just right-click on the background to bring up the properties and choose the Appearances tab, the choose "Windows Classic Style" in the Windows & Buttons pull-down. Then right-click on the Start button, choose properties, and the "Classic Start Menu" radio button.

I prefer the new menu structure, but found the new look annoying.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 10^th, 2006, 3:16am

I get spontaneously logged out every few days (XP, Firefox)

No idea why, but it also happens (very rarely) on other sites - at least here it's frequent enough for me to remember my password...

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Sameer on Oct 10^th, 2006, 9:07am

It only happens to me if I switch my internet connections i.e. get off my office's internet to home wirless , etc.. Otherwise I always stay logged on as long as I don't switch.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by alien on Oct 10^th, 2006, 12:15pm

Now that I think about it, this Windows ME really is more of a recycle bin than OS. It is full of bugs. I thought virus was responsible for these troubles, but now I see, it is ME. Well, not me, rather ME. But I use it because my printer is also special, in that, it works only with ME. :-X

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by Sameer on Oct 10^th, 2006, 2:40pm

on 10/10/06 at 12:15:57, alien wrote:

That is the reason for my first post where I said "I stopped reading after ME" ... ME has been the worst OS that ever came out of microsoft.. even DOS is better than ME.. in either case I have huge appreciation for XP.. its one of their best and most stable products.. (at least for home/office uses) .. Linux is definitely free however u need to be a little tech savvy to use it.. I have XP home on my home PC.. XP Pro on my work PC as well as Linux Server/Windows 2000 advanced server which i use via VNC. All in all I use everything everyday. But for home use XP home is what i will recommend.

Title: Re: test attachments
Post by william wu on Oct 26^th, 2006, 10:48am

test attachment : afro smiley below