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  • Dropbox help?
  • fudge9202
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    Can someone more IT orientated than me tell me step by step how to upload pics on the forum.

    dbukdbuk
    Free Member

    To share pics on the forum you need to put the pictures into the “Public” folder in Dropbox. Then in dropbox select the file and choose “copy public link”. That’s the link you want to post to the forum.

    In the forum, select the “IMG” button above the posting box and that will open a dialog box. Paste the link into there and press ok.

    The dialog box already has http::/ at the start so when pasting your link make sure you don’t get that in twice as it will already be at the start of the link you copied from Dropbox.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    The way to think about it is not that you’re uploading images to the forum, you’re telling people’s browsers where to find the image on the internet.

    So the image has to be visible to everyone on the internet and, in the case of stw, end in .jpg or .gif for the code to work.

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    fudge9202
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    Cheers guys will have a go at that.

    fudge9202
    Free Member

    Test

    fudge9202
    Free Member

    Damn dropbox!!!

    fudge9202
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    wwaswas
    Full Member

    your original /jpg seems to redirect to

    https://photos-6.dropbox.com/t/2/AABUz8s2GA46DJHQ_mngJn4KMOixOd2tcMbOzXLqKYWA6g/12/232103777/jpeg/1024×768/3/1427454000/0/2/2015_Stanton_Sherpa_853_Frame_1.jpg/COG-1m4gASACIAMoAQ/dTidDulYQ5JXMgN2RTKoJtYXtrCxyA6VgvgZ_lRHw7c

    and that works.

    if in doubt paste the bit you’re going to use for the ‘img’ into the top of a browser page and see if it shows the image.

    fudge9202
    Free Member

    Cheers

    fudge9202
    Free Member

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    the “?dl=0” on the end is causing a problem.

    try just https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgh1d5s9agsyfa3/2015_Stanton_Sherpa_853_Frame_1.jpg

    well that doesn’t work either!

    seems that long link I posted is the only one that works.

    studuck
    Free Member

    Posting from photobucket – does this work?

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    That’s a very, errm, rustic wall.

    fudge9202
    Free Member

    Going to open a photobucket account

    dbukdbuk
    Free Member

    From Dropbox, as I said, make sure the file is in the Public folder and make sure you copy the public link.

    To do this, right click on the file in the public folder then select “copy public link”.

    The link will look like this – https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41511358/2014-04-24%2010.32.32.jpg

    Note that it starts with dl That means it’s a public link.

    When pasted into the IMG dialog on the forum it shows like this –

    Drac
    Full Member

    Imgur.com is by far the easiest use and you don’t even need an account.

    fudge9202
    Free Member
    fudge9202
    Free Member

    Great it works!

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