Pictures won't upload!

I've had the same problem as Galen for the past month, multiple attempts. "Every time I upload a profile pic it deletes the other." I'm using iPad Air, Safari browser. I have not tried to post a photo within a thread.

GN doesn't pick up a photo host; Photobucket or FlickR. On the I-Pad! But will allow you to take a photo to upload or select one from your Photostream or album on your I-Pad.
Test photo from FlickR :

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/122910984@N04/13889426818/" title="P4280104 by nytsom1, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2902/13889426818_53072bbb60_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="P4280104"></a>

Or apple have?
I've given up

So I have tried different sizes of files, and the reality is that all we can post now is stuff that has been copied from the internet and saved to our computers, everything we take of our own is too big. even 50 is overoptimistic, which is ridiculous. I can understand not being able to use my rather pixel- intensive camera, but people should surely be able to post using photos from their phones - which I can't without resizing on this board. Trying to use resizing techniques on anyone's phone is going to be a nightmare and no-one will bother.

What I don't understand is - how come it used to work, but now doesn't? IT dept. must have changed something.

It seems that on same days it will work, but not on others and I can't figure out what could be going on, it needs the IT lot to try posting one every day for a while I think. Of differing size files.

Yesterday I managed to upload a photo to a forum post, one that you can share pictures on. Today it won't let me do it at all. I have spent a good hour or more faffing about reducing the size etc. I do find this website so frustrating when it comes to photographs, it doesn't tell you anything. Just sits there looking at you I give up. A few weeks ago I learned my lesson that if you write something that goes with the photo, you do actually lose everything you've written when the photo won't post, so be aware of that and copy and paste your written stuff somewhere before you try previewing.

I'm using a laptop running Windows 7 and using the Chrome browser and have shrunk my photo's to below 1MB but they still won't go on.

I've been using photographic sites and resizing photos and altering them and stuff for years, I was trying to be polite really - it just doesn't work very well at all on this site! I couldn't even upload a link from photobucket. I was starting a new thread. I finally managed to upload a much-reduced in size file on the Thought for Today thread, just as a practice run really. But I had tried to post photos on at least ten occasions prior to that, on the garden photos thread.

tcherry that's very helpful, I would never have thought of that.

Galen don't you dare resign!

Think I'll resign from GN!
Not granny iPad friendly!
Goodnight!

I give up! I 70 in a couple of months!
This thread had no option to upload photos!

Hang on Julie! We have no possibility to upload pics on this thread!

I'm having probs with both! Every time I try to upload a profile pic! It deletes the other!

upsydaisy, this is the Pictures Forum heading:

Note: This topic allows you to post a picture with your message using the Browse button under the Add Message box. You can only post one pic per message - and it will always appear above the text of your message, whichever order you browse/type in. If your pic doesn't appear to have loaded, refresh the page (they can be slow to appear). If it doesn't load at all, try making it smaller (50KB max).

I have given up trying to send in my dog biscuit photo as I am using a tablet and I think the file is too big. I don't know how to resize it and it would be a FAFF to transfer it to PC and resize.

GNHQ!
I told you it wasn't just me!

I've had problems in the past trying to upload photo's from a laptop. If the picture is just too big or the wrong size it doesn't tell you, just sits there for hours saying its uploading but never does. It would be helpful if we knew the maximum file size but I've found, certainly on the local sites if you're putting pictures on a listing that the dimensions of the picture have to be right too. Again it doesn't tell you what is wrong with the pic, you have to guess With tablets it could be that the tablet is trying to upload a portrait sized picture sideways and that it's coming out too wide so won't upload. Just a thought.

I tried it this morning from a computer, and it worked, but it means that I have to keep transferring photos from one device to another. I bet that's why not many people post photos, they give up.

I've given up on this after trying time after time. So will stay black. GN is not iPad friendly in this respect.

But it used to work. I can do it elsewhere on other sites, just not on here. I have seen that other people had problems too. I just wondered if it was a GN problem, or my computer's problem.

jane when ever I have any problem at all with using the laptop, uploading etc I just ask the, how to question on Google, usually you will find the answer.