Uploading Attachments on MCM

Since we've changed the forum software, the process of uploading attachments has changed a bit and can be undestandably confusing esp. since the colors of the Asset Manager window make it's a little difficult to read. The following are some quick steps I hope will simplify the process. If you have any suggestions or questions about this, please add them here. Thanks!

CC

1) Click the http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/im...tor/attach.png button in the post editor... this will bring up another window for managing attachments.
2) Then click the "Add files" button. This will bring up yet another window which will ask you to "Select Files"
3) Hit the "Select Files" button and you will get a browser window. Navigate to the file, select it and then click the "Open" button
4) Then click the "Upload Files" button on the Select Files window.
5) You should now see your file in the "Attachments" section of the "File Upload Manager" window.
6) Click "Insert Attachments" and you're done!

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Originally Posted by CrazyCarl

3) Hit the "Select Files" button and you will get a browser window. Navigate to the file, select it and then click the "Open" button

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Ctrl + click allows multiple file selection (WinXP + FF 3.6 tested)

listen something needs to be done about the complicated way photos have to be uploaded... it stinks!!! also the colours of the different pop up windows are absolute crap, extremely difficult to read, and mostly cannot be read at all... how about a simple drag and drop interface like most other websites use? And what about when trying to upload more than 5 photos... have to go back and forth between several steps to accomplish such a simple task... and then even so with the 5 photo limit, once the 5 photos have been uploaded into the webpage it's too complicated to add another 5... rant over... personally though adding lots of photos on MCM is such a chore...

Why not do like most of us here on MCM and just host your photos somewhere else? I use flickr, AW uses smugmug, ChinaV has his own server...

Until MCM has better a photo uploading system, external hosting is your best option!

Felix,

I also use smugmug, and just experimented using flickr. Seems it didn't work. Here's another try:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/...b340c73acf.jpg

Though I think I've managed to get this right, in general I find the various Yahoo products to be very difficult to figure out. SmugMug is easier than falling out of bed.

cheers

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Originally Posted by felix

Why not do like most of us here on MCM and just host your photos somewhere else? I use flickr, AW uses smugmug, ChinaV has his own server...
Until MCM has better a photo uploading system, external hosting is your best option!

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Hey Felix, thanks for the headsup. A few of the other regulars have been in touch (thanks to you guys too!) outlining how they deal with the photos etc. As it is I have flcikr too, so I may make the time to experiment with that at some point. For now I'll just tide-ho since I've uploaded all the photos for the Jetmax report into multiple posts... LOL.

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Originally Posted by euphonius

Felix,
I also use smugmug, and just experimented using flickr. Seems it didn't work. Here's another try:
Though I think I've managed to get this right, in general I find the various Yahoo products to be very difficult to figure out. SmugMug is easier than falling out of bed.
cheers

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... or parking a Lambo in BJ amongst the local riff-raff...
:P

Yes, and the photos uploaded directly always come out smaller which is a pain after careful editing and resizing to allow for people with dialup. What sites can you 'in China' folks actually see directly? Flikr from Euphonius worked above, Felix's always work.

I tend to write the copy as a post (remembering to 'copy' as I go because long posts timeout and get annoyingly lost sometimes), then upload the five pics inline from a file on my computer (not as thumbnails) and then just move them into the text of the post where I want. I have tried writing a word .doc and .pdf and inserting it but that doesn't work either. So is the general consensus it is best to use Flikr or similar and write offline including links to your pics then cut and paste into a post?

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Originally Posted by jape

So is the general consensus it is best to use Flikr or similar and write offline including links to your pics then cut and paste into a post?

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That's what i do yeah. Flickr is not the most convenient way, but as opposed to smugmug, it is free. I used to use phtobucket but it's very slow here in china whereas flickr seems to work ok.

To put a flickr pic in my posts, i pick the pic i want in flickr and click "all sizes", then copy the photo's url at the bottom of the page and paste it into [IMG][/IMG] code in my text.

I presume this is what other people are doing but if there's a quicker way please speak!

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Originally Posted by felix

To put a flickr pic in my posts, i pick the pic i want in flickr and click "all sizes", then copy the photo's url at the bottom of the page and paste it into [IMG][/IMG] code in my text.

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Felix, that's indeed the method I stumbled onto today. Lord knows it was not intuitive. Getting pix into flickr is pretty easy from iPhoto. I can just select whatever I want to upload, click the flickr icon, and off they go.

I still prefer SmugMug for ease of managing pix online, but Flickr has that nice way of capturing revenues if someone wants to license your pix....

cheers

Hey Fellas,

Sorry for the late input on this. There's only so much that can be done to customize the media manager (the upload manager) interface in the software. It's an old problem, as well as many others. I posted a question about this on the vb support forum many moons ago and it didn't get any meaningful response.

That said, it's really designed to only put up a photo or two and helps control the out-bound data traffic of the server. If you're looking to put up a whole buncha pictures it behooves everyone, including yourself, to have your own image gallery account. this way, you have complete control over the images, can share them as you like, and don't run the risk of having all your hard work vaporize in case of some crazy server or software problem on this end.

CC

Thanks CraZy Carl.. :)
I've a fickr account and some of the fellas have given me advice on how to set it up to post multiple photos etc into a thread...
with regards to vaporise... I know I'm not alone when I mention about losing work when the 2000 word limit is reached. When one tries to post upwards of the limit a popup advisory appears and if one clicks the cancel button to acknowledge, then all the work above the word limit is lost. I found this out the hard way after I tried posting an extra 400 words above the limit I didn't realise existed. For anyone else reading this, if this happens to you, just click the little window close "X" that appears in the right hand corner... then your work is still there so you can decide what you want to do with it, BEFORE it vaporises.

:)

BikerD,

I've composed more than my fair share of lengthy posts on various bbs boards (ADVRider also uses VB) and lost hours of work. After a while I realized that I needed to be saving all this labor anyway so started composing on Word or some other dedicated text editor. One nice thing about VB is that you can actually drag and drop images into the story (from your image hosting site) once it's composed. Basically it's copy and paste text, then drag and drop the images.

I"ll look into the post word limit and if I can change it up a bit will make a note on the forum and upgrades section.

Paz,
CC

Hey CC,

That's a good idea with the added bonus that using a word processing application one can check spelling. Quick question, if one uses MS Word to compose the content, is it also possible to drag & drop photos from a host site into the Word document and then copy [Ctrl+C] & paste [Ctrl+V] the entire content including the photos into the MCM post, or does one need to drag & drop the photos separately & directly into the MCM VB post?

Cheers
BD

If you are posting pix from a host site, all that appears in the post is the link, surrounded by the IMAGE brackets. This is why I prefer to draft my posts in MCM, then back them up with a text window (Mail or word processor), so that the MCM formatting is backed up. If you are actually uploading actual pix into an MCM window, rather than just pointing to links, I don't think the backup method works very well. Another good reason to use a host site (Flickr, SmugMug, whatever) for your pix.

cheers!