Problems uploading pictures

Good afternoon @Jiffy @Sheal we are investigating the problem for you.please bear with us

 

OK, one at a time and not necessarily in order:

• Standard accepted image size is 800 x 600, maximum 4mb; images larger than this will, in many cases, automatically be resized by the site software - the best way to do this is to 'drag and drop' the image into the text box where you are writing your post. Be aware, however, that images that are way over the score will be rejected by the software and will need to be manually resized.
• Accepted file formats are: zip, txt, jpg, pdf, png, jpeg, jpe and gif
• Firefox is being an utter sod recently. I really like Firefox, but there has been some updates recently that have caused no end of grief with images and adverts (I have had numerous cases where it just hangs up all together if it takes umbridge to the images on a particular site); having said that, it does seem to be slowly improving, so I reckon that the clever peeps are onto it. Chrome is a good alternative, but even it struggles with some things, for no apparent reason.
• The image that you tried to upload @Scrungee failed because it was in .mht format; this is an archive file for internet browser images, which is what the thumbnail images are. If you had clicked through and opened the full size image you could have then right clicked and taken the 'Save Image As...' option.
• @Jiffy - can you email me the image, and I will see if I can spot anything?
• Whenever problems like this occur, it is worth bearing in mind that there are a few things that can be the root cause - these include anti-virus software that is being over-zealous (often a look in the settings of the AV can resolve this); browser cache hasn't been cleaned for a while (CCleaner is the ideal solution for this, and is free); an update has been applied to your PC but requires a restart for everything to work; Java needs to be updated - this one in particular can cause all sorts of weird behaviour when it is needing updating;
  
• Ad blockers on browsers (particularly Firefox and Chrome) can stop images in both directions; AdBlock & AdBlockPlus are two that I know of that are guilty of this, and to a remarkable degree. uBlock Origin is much better, of course remembering to add an exception to allow the adverts that support GC.
• Apple products are something of an unknown to me, so I'm afraid I cannot really help with them - bear in mind that they do work differently to PC's and will have their own restrictions/limitations/foibles.

If you are in need of software to deal with images, I highly recommend Paint.net - completely free, and very powerful whilst remaining fairly easy to use (takes a wee bit of playing with to get used to it, but it is really comprehensive software).

Whilst the Admin team cannot post images by the hundred, if you are stuck with a particular image, please email it to [email protected], remembering to tell us your username and the thread that you would like the image posted into. Please also remember that we are volunteers, and have day jobs, so it may take us a wee while before we can post the image for you.

If I have missed anything here, please holler

 

I'm retired ,looks like i'm in the again

 

It is very likely @NigelJ - I am a long time Firefox user, but there has been many occasions in recent weeks where I have had no choice to abandon it and use Chrome as it has been virtually unusable. Try disabling any add-ons, and then re-enable them one at a time, using it for a wee while in between, and you might be able to isolate where the problem lies. One thing is for sure, it is likely to be a temporary problem, as the clever folks at Mozilla are usually really hot on sorting bugs out.