Computer questions you'd be embarrassed to ask any where else!

ken wrote: »

At the top of every forum on the right hand side is search this forum. That refines the search to the forum your in.

Thank you, see it now... I'm on Iphone so need to switch to full site for that option... Cheers!

shuffle65 wrote: »

How do you attach photos?

Well..............BrensBenz and Boards-attach-photos are lifelong enemies. I don't understand why Boards makes it so complicated and unreliable. Other Boardies have posted their methods, most require third party software to work and are all different, strongly suggesting that "Boards Help" is useless and the suggested routes have been the result of aimless journeys and failures through endless error messages. The words "primitive" and "user-hostile" come to mind.

However, enough of the rant - it hasn't worked so far!

You need to have the photo stored somewhere, preferably in jpg. format, correctly sized and ready to go. I have photo-manipulation software for this but Microsoft's picture editing may be enough for you. Now, go to Boards and the reply to post window.......

• Click on the Boards "Paper Clip" icon. The bewilderment is about to start;
• Click "Choose File", find your photo on your computer and click on it;
• Boards cleverly(?) include and hide an "Upload" button on the far right of your screen - find it, click it and eventually, Boards will confirm that the photo exists somewhere in Boards but it won't tell you where. It hasn't been "attached" - you now have to go on safari to find and attach it;
• Now, close (as in "X") the so-called "attach" window - the one that doesn't attach anything;
• Go back to the "Paper Clip" icon and click on "Manage Attachments" and NOT on your photo;
• Click on your photo and it will appear on-screen;
• Copy the URL above your photo and paste it into the "Upload from an URL" window. This doesn't actually do anything but it has become part of my routine;
• Close that (useless) window and click on the little mountain icon above the "reply" window;
• Paste the URL in there and close the window. Algebra will appear in your message but no photo yet;
• Go to "Preview Post" below the reply window and........6 times out of ten, your photo will be visible. If you fall into the other four times, sorry, I can't help!

Using this labyrinthian route, I managed to attach a shot of my giggliest, laughiest grandson below. I shouldn't have to say this - other sites need a max of three simple mouse clicks to attach a photo - but best of luck with this!

looksee wrote: »

The thanks (ie 'like' ) is for the babby, who is very cute and made me smile, not for your technical instructions Brens

I've edited my post on how to attach photos, separating steps from advice and actual experiences. Let's see if Shuffle65 has any success, after he's served his probationary period! (What's THAT about?)

And yes, the little man is super-cute.........but I may be very slightly biased! He's having a sleep-over here tonight so we're busy lifting furniture and stocking up on energy pills. We also had a precautionary sleep-in this morning, although there wasn't much sleepi............wooops, wrong thread.

shuffle65 wrote: »

I give up on trying to post photos, you lost me at "Click on the Boards paperclip icon", cause there ain't no paperclip icon... and anyway I appear to be still on probation... Would have liked to show y'all some nice photies but...

Welcome to the biggest club on the interweb, the IGUTTAPTB club or the "I Gave Up Trying To Attach Photos To Boards" Club.

I tried to attach a screen shot of the location of the paperclip icon but guess what? Boards fought me all the way!!!!!!!! The paper clip is in the Message Box, next to the smilie face.



Perhaps your probationary status is denying you the pleasure of trying to figure out how to attach photos to Boards but, believe me, the wait to attach photos isn't worth it!

Frustration! One of my pet hates is having to deal with American technical sites, where they look for money if you are asking a simple (to them) question.

So is there anyone out there who can answer this question about resetting my wife's Kindle reader...she loves using it but has been deprived of it for weeks now because I can't access any book sites...
Any help much appreciated...

Thanks, Ken for your rapid response! Yes, you are right, we did recently upgrade the router, so that's where the problem started...
I will try the site you suggested, thanks again!

Joy! Have just downloaded various books for my other half...thanks again, Ken...I had a blind spot about the password, thinking it was some Kindle password I had forgotten...now, where am I going to put all those brownie points?!

Right, so I am on my IPad, thingy,

Going on a long flight next year, and It was suggested I load a couple of Films on it to watch in flight.

My favourite movies I have in DVD.

I can watch them on my laptop.

How do I got them onto the IPad?.

maudgone wrote: »

I have given the last few years since I joined Boards.ie trying to figure out how to attach a photo to a post, all to no avail despite getting numerous different instructions, and visiting countless photo sites offering the magic formula on how to figure it out. Oh stoopid me. After following your instructions BrensBenz, I couldn't believe my eyes :eek::eek: when as if by magic my picture appeared. I feel like a fkn genius now and am off to join mensa. This is the result of my first uploaded picture on Board.ie. Thank you BrensBenz.
This by the way is a picture of my gorgeous niece trying to get her shoes right.

When I first read this post on my infuriating new phone, I thought "Yesssss! My work here is done!" I swaggered into my leaba like John Wayne and fell asleep with a smug smirk on my face.

However, on reading your post on a proper cumpewher so that I could see the photo of your niece, it seems that I have failed, dismally! I can't see the photo. A silly icon is the only hint that you tried to attach a photo. All filters are off but still nothing! Pasting the algebra (URL) into the magic box doesn't work either.

It would appear that boards has created umpteen ways to cock up the ridiculously simple task of attaching photos. What works for some doesn't work for others. Perhaps, since this thread is about shots of houses and not about nieces or grandsons, boards has a fiendishly clever doodah to filter out shots of people........but I doubt it.

So, Maudgone, back to the drawing board for both of us. It might be simpler, quicker and certainly more reliable, to post photos of your niece, in envelopes, with stamps, to us. PM for address.

Brensbenz - try this site to upload your photo http://www.wthax.org/

1) upload photo to wthax
2) copy code
3) go to boards.ie and make a post
4) select the insert image button ( its a square with a mountain and sun on a yellow background)
5) copy the code into the box
6) submit

BrensBenz wrote: »

When I first read this post on my infuriating new phone, I thought "Yesssss! My work here is done!" I swaggered into my leaba like John Wayne and fell asleep with a smug smirk on my face.

However, on reading your post on a proper cumpewher so that I could see the photo of your niece, it seems that I have failed, dismally! I can't see the photo. A silly icon is the only hint that you tried to attach a photo. All filters are off but still nothing! Pasting the algebra (URL) into the magic box doesn't work either.

It would appear that boards has created umpteen ways to cock up the ridiculously simple task of attaching photos. What works for some doesn't work for others. Perhaps, since this thread is about shots of houses and not about nieces or grandsons, boards has a fiendishly clever doodah to filter out shots of people........but I doubt it.

So, Maudgone, back to the drawing board for both of us. It might be simpler, quicker and certainly more reliable, to post photos of your niece, in envelopes, with stamps, to us. PM for address.

So does that mean that no one can see pictures that I put up, or just some can? I can see the picture on my boards post. :(

maudgone wrote: »

So does that mean that no one can see pictures that I put up, or just some can? I can see the picture on my boards post. :(

I can see the pic - its of a beautiful baby in an awful Dublin Jersey - up Tipp!

This picture?

Can see pic in post 779 but not the one in 770