Ring grip Army issue Kukri, A correction for collectors

[spiral]

Originally Posted by Rick

Mate, please upload all your linked pictures to the site or they will be taken down .

Sorry Rick,

I thought I had! Lost some somehow in the thread assemblage....

Ive added the missing ones.
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

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[Rick]

Thanks Spiral .

[mrcjgscott]

Many thanks for this Spiral!

[Ian]

Spiral:

What Rick was referring to was the fact that you have inserted pictures into your threads that are links from Photobucket or other outside servers. All pictures need to be loaded here as attachments so that the actual files are stored and backed up on the EEWRS web site, and the threads can be restored correctly if there is a problem with our hosting site. Also, external links get broken (companies go out of business, links get changed, etc) and your excellent images disappear.

I know there are a lot of pictures here, but you need to upload them all as attachments or the Mods will take them down.

Ian.

[spiral]

Originally Posted by mrcjgscott

Many thanks for this Spiral!

Thank you Chris! It seems important that people are not mislead by this kukri.

Originally Posted by Ian

Spiral:

What Rick was referring to was the fact that you have inserted pictures into your threads that are links from Photobucket or other outside servers. All pictures need to be loaded here as attachments so that the actual files are stored and backed up on the EEWRS web site, and the threads can be restored correctly if there is a problem with our hosting site. Also, external links get broken (companies go out of business, links get changed, etc) and your excellent images disappear.

I know there are a lot of pictures here, but you need to upload them all as attachments or the Mods will take them down.

Ian.

Hi Ian,

I think that's what I've done?

The pictures within the posts are from photobucket, so they appear at a decent size in the correct place.{which does help peoples comprehension.}

All of them I have also uploaded in the first post & in the repley to Rick{ after I had lost a few,} if you can check this please I would be grateful...


I am under the impression that a copy of evry picture I hosted on photo bucket is also hosted on this forum? so that they will never be lost? I thought that was what was wanted?


This seems to match the forum stipulated rules? As I have insured the archival durability lasts as long the text of the post?


If I am wrong please let me know, & I will try to adjust further.

[Ian]

Spiral:

I think we have some confusion about "uploading" files.

When you link to an external picture file with a URL and display it using the IMG tag, that file does not get transferred to the forum's server. It merely gets inserted into the page that is viewed. The only way I know of uploading the file to the forum's server is to first download it from the external site to your computer and then make it an attachment to your particular post. I know this is tedious--and it does not allow for images to be inserted where they should be in the text (this bugs me too because all attachments are appended at the end of the message)--but that is the Forum policy.

Please make these changes or the links to external files will be deleted per Forum policy.

Thanks,

Ian.

[spiral]

Originally Posted by Ian

Spiral:

I think we have some confusion about "uploading" files.

When you link to an external picture file with a URL and display it using the IMG tag, that file does not get transferred to the forum's server. It merely gets inserted into the page that is viewed. The only way I know of uploading the file to the forum's server is to first download it from the external site to your computer and then make it an attachment to your particular post. I know this is tedious--and it does not allow for images to be inserted where they should be in the text (this bugs me too because all attachments are appended at the end of the message)--but that is the Forum policy.

Please make these changes or the links to external files will be deleted per Forum policy.

Thanks,

Ian.

Some confusion indeed Ian!

Just to clarify are you aware a copy of every picture in the thread I posted. is actually already hosted on your forum in this thread in posts 1 & 7?

The ones within the thread that I linked to are just so the thread retains a little bit of relevant context!

Are you actually saying this doesn't match the forum rules?

That "archival durability lasts as long the text of the post"

Which I have already done. I agree it is a tedious process I know because I have already done it in this thread!

To reiterate..

There is already a copy of every picture in the thread I posted. that is actually already hosted on this forum in this thread in posts 1 & 7?

all the best,

spiral

[Ian]

Spiral, I have sent you a PM.

Ian.