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Originally Posted by kBob
There must be some way to post pictures on RFC directly from my computor's files with out having to post them someplace else first!
ome one please show me where the stumps are (obscure referrence to very old fishing/religious joke of Non PC variety)
How can (or ca nit at all) be done?
If it is possible there should be a sticky and it should be easy to find in the FAQ.
I really want to post some poor pictures that will make everyone else's work and photography skills look great.
Blasted att.net won't let me onto my own web board to move pictures there or I would not be asking.
-kBob
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As others have said, you really cannot just link to a location within your PC. Even if you could make this work, that would mean that YOUR PC would be the "server", and every time someone wanted to see the photo, they'd be directly accessing the hard drive in YOUR PC. Unless you're set up to be a web server right there at your house, and are willing to leave your PC turned on at all times, and your personal internet connection can handle the traffic of barfing up that photo each and every time someone brings up your post, then you don't want that!
So there are three other options I can think of:
1. RFC hosts your photos. You upload the photo file to RFC, and THEY barf it up every time anyone anywhere brings up your post. That means that RFC has to store the photo on their servers and also transmit its data every time anyone views it. That adds to their costs, of course.
2. You set up a website of your own on someone else's server. There are a lot of ways to do this, and it can be fairly inexpensive to have your own site, but usually, you pay for the storage space so each photo you "host" at your site eats into that space.
3. You set up an account at a photo hosting site. Those range from free to not-too-expensive. I like Flickr's pro account because it has unlimited storage space and unlimited access. I can post multi-megabyte images and have millions of downloads and it's covered. I don't do that, but I could.
Mainly, because the space is unrestricted, I have no reason to ever remove a photo to "make space". And that means that any photo I embed in any post on any forum can be there forever.
Have you ever been reading a thread on here, and instead of seeing the photos someone posted, you see, instead, some icons showing that the link is broken, or little icons saying that the photo was removed? Bugs ya, doesn't it!
Well, if you have a photo hosting account that restricts how much data you can have posted, you, too, will be guilty of inflicting that disappointment on everyone yourself because you'll have no choice but to "cull" your posted photos periodically to stay below your limit.
So look for a photo hosting service that allows unlimited storage or at least has enough storage that you'll never need to delete or move the pics. Some are free, most are very cheap.
PBase and Flickr are the two hosting services that come to mind right away. But I don't think PBase has an "unlimited storage" option. I haven't used Photobucket, but a LOT of the broken links I see in old threads seem to say "photobucket" on them for whatever that's worth.
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