The owners are installing some new hardware and it may be affecting us.

Would that explain the pain in my .... er ... nevermind. :D

(sorry, the devil made me do it. ;)

recently discovered: the who's on-line page periodically refreshes, kepping you logged in; when you leave the 'puter for what you thought was only gonna be a few minutes but actually turned into hours, the posts don't show as having been read. just thought i'd share. "busy moms choose "who's on-line" :D

I have been having periodic difficulties with some pic threads...some of the pics I can view and others won't even open for me on the same thread. Cobalt has had the same problem. It isn't all the time - we both have checked our temp files, etc and that isn't the problem. We have even completely shut down and then reloaded and tried the pics we couldn't see and they still won't open...any suggestions?

You know I spoke with Cobalt before and I have no idea because I have absolutely no trouble opening those same threads/pics. Next time you can't open something will you please PM me immediately with the URL?

Yeah baaaaaaaby.. I just found out that Cobalt and I double (PM) teamed ya.. :lust: LMAO!!! :D

I've always resized any pics I've posted (taken personally...or from email) and keep them all the same size. Just now, I tried to post a few "resized" pics my sis sent me into a new thread...from an AOL account, but regardless...resized, as all my others are...and it says they are too big!

Has the posting size changed...or is AOL fucking with me again? And...how can they do that from an emailed pic? Geezzzzzzzzzz!

File size has not changed.

What size are the pics that wouldn't post? They shouldn't be changed from sending them through email. That is weird. Max posting size is 150KB.

Now that's where I get hung up. My knowledge of KB and all the other byte sizes is nil! In my photo program I have a "resize" button I click...and through trial and error, a long time ago, I figured a size that is compatible with this site. I usually take the largest number (example:1260x1045)...and keeping the pic in proportion (the program does it)...I resize the largest number to 500x____(<---whatever it comes out to be). It doesn't say what KB size that is...just that it's 500x____ (whatever). All I know is that they ALWAYS fit whenever I posted that size before...so it confused me when I kept getting the "too big" message.

To be honest...I've never known how to find out the size of anything...and only through this program can I "resize" something to be accepted here. If I right click and keep a pic in "save picture as" and rename it and then open my photo program and retrieve it from there and click my "resize" button in that program...it'll tell me that the pic size is ____x____...and choosing the largest number, be it the width or height, I leave the "keep proportion" button ticked and change the largest number to 500.

Does that make sense? I'll try again this morning, to post the new thread I was trying to post. If you don't see it up...you'll know I still couldn't do it...k?

I know exactly what you are saying because that is how I normally do it too but while that is resizing the dimensional size of the pic to the permissible file size usually, it will not always because file size does not directly refer to the physical (pixels) size of the pic. That just happens to be one way to change a file's size. The other is to lessen the quality or compress it tighter. On my program I am also given the option to store it at various qualities. This will also change the file size. Sooooooo if you have photos taken at a higher resolution then some times you need to change both dimension and compression.

Oh...Good Morning Lil!

I accidently discovered how to determine the KB size of my pics...lol! In my documents (where I've stored these pics) I set my cursor over the pic to ponder the situation and lo and behold a box dropped down to tell me these BMP's were 500+KB. I was astounded...at the fact that I discoved this and at the actual size even after I "resized" them. So...I'm learning as I'm complaining...and I got them down to a suitable size to post!

TY Lil and Aqua...for bearing with me!

Now...as to lessening the quality and compressing???? OMG! I think my head'll explode if I try that so soon after my new discovery...lmao!

Good job Lixy!!! Trial and error...you learn more that way.

.BMP are huge hun.....better resolution in the pics but large file size

If ya can save em as .jpg their size will drop dramatically

*curtsey*

TY everyone...I am so proud of me!

Um...Sharni? I love that idea...but what do I do to save them as .jpg? When I right click um...is that option available there? I didn't even know these were BMP's till that little box dropped down while I was pondering the situation...lol!

Geezzzzzz...I hate being dumb about something!