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I sent a PM to Gordon this morning to query this issue, but either the time difference from USA to UK is the reason or he is busy elsewhere, as I haven 't had a reply yet.

I thought I'd post the question here in case there is a simple solution to my problem.

I have added a textual name in my signature area - Vanessa - but I can't get a small image to appear beneath it.

I created a personal album first but when I tried to upload my image (saved on my laptop) I got an SQL error message, telling me to contact the Board Administrator. When I click on the GALLERY button, my album is shown but a blank image icon is shown with a red cross on it.

Do certain permissions have to be allocated to new members, or am I doing something wrong?

Any help appreciated.
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As far as I know you are not doing anything wrong. It is a bug and it has our attention. It seems that the solution is not to be expected soon.
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Hi Vanessa,

If you have a Flickr or Dropbox or the like account, you can always upload your image there and wrap it in "img" tags like so:

Code: Select all

[img]http://flickr.com/youraccount/sig.jpg[/img]
That's what I did... Hope this helps :D
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John Baars wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 3:46 pm As far as I know you are not doing anything wrong. It is a bug and it has our attention. It seems that the solution is not to be expected soon.
Sorry for that.
Thanks John.

It's good to know it wasn't me being a bit silly :roll:
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Thefatkitty wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 3:51 pm Hi Vanessa,

If you have a Flickr or Dropbox or the like account, you can always upload your image there and wrap it in "img" tags like so:

Code: Select all

[img]http://flickr.com/youraccount/sig.jpg[/img]
That's what I did... Hope this helps :D
Thank you.

I don't have any external accounts like that, but maybe I need to look into setting something up in the meantime :think:
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The only way to add a image to your signature is with the method explained in the previous posts.
The gallery is having a problem uploading images. Our administrator has contacted the author of the gallery extension and asked for a resolution to the problem, it's in his hands now and we wait for the software fix from him, sorry for the inconvenience.
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Thank you everyone.

I've created a Flickr account but I'm having trouble getting the image to show in my signature :flame:
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Hello [mention]Vanessa Ryder[/mention]

When you post an image from Flickr you just select the image, click the share arrow at the bottom, select bbcode, select the 1024 size and copy the text. Then post it!

This is my M13 image!

Image

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Thank you everyone for the advice to get my signature sorted out.

I couldn't get Flickr to show my image properly. It was originally saved as a PNG to retain the transparent background, but for some reason the coding kept changing it to a JPG after uploading it to Flickr.

Anyway, my partner Sophia knows someone who has some web space and they allowed me to upload the image to their server. Voila!

I chose an image representation for the constellation Virgo, which is my birth Star Sign.
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Glad you sorted it!

If you have some Microsoft Onedrive cloud storage space you can create a bbcode from there as well. Probably Google Drive too but I don't know that one.

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Thanks Graeme.

I don't tend to use any cloud storage services, not really trusting them.

For my purposes, I store all my photos on my hard drive and backup onto an external drive.

It's only really an issue (as I've just found out :roll: ) when you want to share any photos on Forums such as this one.
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Butterfly Maiden wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 6:42 am Thanks Graeme.

I don't tend to use any cloud storage services, not really trusting them.

For my purposes, I store all my photos on my hard drive and backup onto an external drive.

It's only really an issue (as I've just found out :roll: ) when you want to share any photos on Forums such as this one.
Butterfly..a trick I learned very recently to get attention a little more directly, is to type [mention]Butterfly Maiden[/mention] then click on the name and it will appear in red if it worked correctly. I believe hitting the preview button would show if it did or not. Then submit. You would definitely know then.
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Buckethead 2.0 wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 1:24 am
Butterfly Maiden wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 6:42 am Thanks Graeme.

I don't tend to use any cloud storage services, not really trusting them.

For my purposes, I store all my photos on my hard drive and backup onto an external drive.

It's only really an issue (as I've just found out :roll: ) when you want to share any photos on Forums such as this one.
Butterfly..a trick I learned very recently to get attention a little more directly, is to type @Butterfly Maiden then click on the name and it will appear in red if it worked correctly. I believe hitting the preview button would show if it did or not. Then submit. You would definitely know then.
Thanks Graeme.

I don't really like too much attention. I just wanted the Virgo image for my Star sign (little things, amuse little minds I suppose... :roll: )
Vanessa

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Olympus DPS-1 10x50 binoculars.
Leica 8x32BN binoculars.
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