Picture display on tech ref pages

[starstruck]

Des

Can't see any images in the tech reference section. Am trying to look at pictures of waterpumps, and am getting just little blue squares with question marks in them. Please advise. Thanks. Paul

[Des]

Hi Paul

thanks for letting me know,

just going to have a fiddle now,


Kind Regards
Des

[Des]

Should now be fixed !

Please let me know if you spot any more errors.


thanks



Kind Regards
Des

[roadster36]

Hello Des,
Many times wen i made a post with an attachment the site did not accept the picture (because of the name or size ).
at the same time you lost also the complete mesage.
If you re write the mesage with an other attachment you get the masage :you allready post this masage.
it is  frustrating to wright the same mesage over and over again.
other members with the same problem ?

Regards Jan

[Des]

Hi Jan


I actually have the same problem 


And yes it is extremely frustrating,

if you try to upload a picture called   "mercedes170.jpg"

chances are that it will be already on the server.



however.....

what I have started to do is change the file name to today's date.....eg....


"12_04_2010_mercedes170.jpg"



this way, you can be sure that there will not be a file on the server with that name already,


I understand it is frustrating, it has happened to me countless times
Some forum software when they upload a file, they change the file-name to a random name, unfortunately ours does not do this.

[roadster36]

OK thanks for your explanation

Jan

[Des]

....also I forgot to add

re image size, if you can keep the picture down to under 2500 x 2500 pixels, under around 1mb in size it will upload fine.

Otherwise the picture would be too slow for people who are not on broadband, faster internet connections to view.


That's why there is a size limitation on the uploaded pictures.

[Ted]

Hi Des, there is some problem with the Tech Gallery, it shows just a list of folders on the site?

[roadster36]

Hi Des, there is some problem with the Tech Gallery, it shows just a list of folders on the site?

same with post and prewar sightings

jan

[Ted]

BTW, just noticed that Des hasn't been here for 3 weeks. I hope everything is alright with him?

[John Ellis]

As many of you know, the site was hacked and taken down.  We are attempting to rebuild the pictures from archive, but it will take awhile.  Many thanks to Jim Axman who has been in the background reconstructing this site.  Bear with us, please!!!

Des has resigned from moderating the forum, many thanks to him for his countless hours over the past few years