What in tarnations happened to this board?

[sarge]

Others can comment who know more, but I believe you could actually follow the same procedure and copy the image address from a photo on your computer and bypass a host site, but then you're inviting Hackers to come into your computer.

Even more basic an issue, not using a hosting site but linking directly to a photo on your computer would mean your computer is now the host and must remain online for the link to access. Turn it off and you break the link.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Others can comment who know more, but I believe you could actually follow the same procedure and copy the image address from a photo on your computer and bypass a host site, but then you're inviting Hackers to come into your computer.

Even more basic an issue, not using a hosting site but linking directly to a photo on your computer would mean your computer is now the host and must remain online for the link to access. Turn it off and you break the link.

Yes, but if it's on your computer, it hasn't got a web address to begin with unless you're using your computer as a server on the web

[up148]

Got it.....I think. I'll just stick with a host service since it's become less complicated for me.

[webenda]

If you make a Google Photo public you can post a link to it that anyone can open.
Example: https://photos.fife.usercontent.google. ... authuser=0

[sarge]

Others can comment who know more, but I believe you could actually follow the same procedure and copy the image address from a photo on your computer and bypass a host site, but then you're inviting Hackers to come into your computer.

Even more basic an issue, not using a hosting site but linking directly to a photo on your computer would mean your computer is now the host and must remain online for the link to access. Turn it off and you break the link.

Yes, but if it's on your computer, it hasn't got a web address to begin with unless you're using your computer as a server on the web

We're saying the same thing, I believe. GRIN!

The situation can be summed up as:

1) Treat this forum as not hosting photos in its current form.

2) Choose one of the hosting services you like; some are free. Most are pretty intuitive.

3) I don't know jack of Google Photo to be able to help.

[up148]

Wayne, the link isn't working for me. Not sure if it's my computer or the link not working.

I have google, so this might work even better, although now that I understand how to copy and paste from Shutterfly it's quite simple.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wayne, the link isn't working for me. Not sure if it's my computer or the link not working.

Nor I.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We're saying the same thing, I believe. GRIN!

The situation can be summed up as:

1) Treat this forum as not hosting photos in its current form.

2) Choose one of the hosting services you like; some are free. Most are pretty intuitive.

3) I don't know jack of Google Photo to be able to help.

Sort of, yes. Kind of....

#1 & #2 -- yes!

#3 Everything I thought I knew or have been told doesn't seem to work here. The problem may reside as a local issue.

Go back to #1 & #2!

[R.K. Maroon]

I use Dropbox to host photos. I started as a free user but went to paid when I reached the limit. I have almost a terabyte of rail photos and video, so the annual fee is worth the convenience of being able to access all my files from any device quickly as long I have a decent internet connection. Posting is pretty easy, but there is one trick, as I will explain.

Dropbox installs a folder on your PC. You store, rename, move, copy, delete and search for files in this directory like it was any other on your computer. I navigate using Windows File Manager to the image I want to post and right click on it. This options box appears:



Note the "Copy Dropbox Link" option. Click on that and then go to your post-in-progress here on the forum. Click on the "Img" box near the top of the "Post A Reply" window and paste the link between the bracketed {Img}/{Img} tags that appear. Here is an example (for the image above, as it were):



And here is where the trick is required. At the end of the pasted link, just before the closing tag, you have to replace the "dl=0" with "raw=1". Without doing this, the photo won't show here on the forum (I guess this is technically a hack, not a trick).

That's it. Doing the last step would be tedious if not for the fact that when you paste the link, the cursor is positioned just where you need to erase the "dl=0" by using the backspace key. I found that after posting just a few images that it had become fast and easy. I can type "raw=1" with in my sleep now. There is also a trick by which you can post an image full size, which I really like. I will show how that is done in another post.

Jim

[webenda]

Wayne, the link isn't working for me.

Nor I.

It still works for me. I use a desktop with Chrome.
I just tried it on my cell phone and it works.
Google AI said it would be visible to anyone if I followed the instructions it offered.

[sarge]

Could Google AI be wrong yet again?

Here's what the rest of us see:



This has nothing to do with the antiquity of the software the forum runs on, for I get this page off-forum. Even if it does work, it's still only a link rather than a posted photo, so hardly on equal footing with any of dozens of other hosts out there.

As hard as you are pushing Google, are you really the google bot that I see signed in all the time and not good ol' Wayne at all? What have you done with Wayne?

In all seriousness, my guess is you might have to go in and change something in the privacy settings to allow outside viewing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wayne, the link isn't working for me.

Nor I.

It still works for me. I use a desktop with Chrome.
I just tried it on my cell phone and it works.
Google AI said it would be visible to anyone if I followed the instructions it offered.

It lies.

[gregj410]

Oh boy. Here we go with the quarterly how to post pictures thread.

[up148]

I remember posting some photos from my desktop (I have google) and they showed up for me on this forum, but not to anyone else. Then I learned I was really exposing myself to hackers by directly linking photos from my computer rather than through a hosting site.

Yeah Greg, once you get the process, you got it, but we all need refresher courses.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...........but we all need refresher courses.

If we can get a few more posting photos more frequently.....then we'd be refreshed,

But Brian's option works very nicely. That should help everyone w/o a hosting service. The rest of us have our own hosting services.