Upload Folder Full...

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[saabnet]

I got a PM from Frank in Australia who was trying to upload some more animal rescue photos and he said it failed with an error stating that the Upload Folder was Full. I tried to make a post in the same thread with an uploaded/attached photo and got the same error.

How do we get the Upload Folder emptied? Should I send a PM to Joe? Although he hasn't responded to my one other PM to him from early June... Diane, is this something you can fix?

Thanks,

-Scott

[Diane R]

Joe hasn't responded to me since May either, and if I can do it, I don't know how.  I'll poke around some.

--Diane.

[B. Right]

I think the best way to go about it, is to upload pictures to http://www.photobucket.com or one of the numerous other webalbums, then link from there. In that way, we do not use up bandwith from kivafriensdotorg.

[Diane R]

OH! Is that what's going on?

Oh yes definitely!  Don't use the kivafriends.org server as a photo repository, please.  Please upload your photos to somewhere else first, and post a link to them.  Unless Joe replies to let us know that he has vast amounts of server space for photos (which he may, but if the folder filled up he may not), I'd suggest doing as Mr. Right suggests and storing the photos somewhere else.

--Diane.

[abc]

Diane,
This is all so over my head that I can't even feel the whooshing as it flies over, but:
Does this mean that, if folks refrain from loading non-borrower photos, we can
still put pictures of prospective loans in our posts? I find that so helpful, she sighed.

Ann
whose knowledge of things technical flies under the radar

[Evelyn Yvonne Theriault]

Diane,
... if folks refrain from loading non-borrower photos, we can
still put pictures of prospective loans in our posts? ...
Ann
whose knowledge of things technical flies under the radar

Hello Ann and others,
1. Since KIVA borrower pictures are already on the KIVA site, wouldn't it make sense to link to the KIVA originals - especially when posting to generate extra funds or just to indicate a favourite.
I say this because the pictures of non-borrowers (i.e. food , oil painting in one of RichardF's posts) that aren't already on KIVA, KIVAPEDIA or KIVAFRIENDS, might generate more KIVAFRIENDS hits in search engines, and different types of people might land here accidentally and get caught up in KIVA FEVER!.
I'm thinking that people searching for topics like textile arts around the world or recipe for salchipapa, are prime candidates for KIVANUTTINESS (another word missing from Spellcheck).
2. Another idea if space is an issue, is to go back to all messages that are 6 months+ old and turn the borrower pictures into links. Maybe there's some magical technical way to do that in one fell swoop  
Evelyn

[wthepoo]

Hi Ann,

Evelyn already said it: There is no need to upload borrower photos.

* You can just refer to them in your posts by

[ img]<URL of the picture on kiva.org>[ /img] (without the space between [ and img] or /img]).

* You can even find an option to add the []-commands just above the smileys (leftmost icon with a picture). If you just click on that, you will just have to insert the URL.

* You will get the picture-URL by right-clicking on the picture (e.g. on the loan's page on kiva.org) and then selecting something like "Copy image location". Then you can just paste it into your post with CTRL + V.

* Once you are getting used to it, that is soooo much easier than always saving and uploading the photos.

To show you how it has to look in the end I will include a photo below. Just try to "quote" my post and you will see what it looked like for me.




I hope this helps - I always find it difficult to explain such things (and in a written form and in English...),
Best wishes,
Wolfgang.

[saabnet]

If anyone is dying to get a photo up on KivaFriends but just cannot figure out how to get photobucket or another public web hosting service to work, then PM me and I can help arrange to get it posted on my server and will send you the link to use so it shows up on KivaFriends.

-Scott

[abc]

Oh, you know, that's what I've been doing all along -- except for the first
week or so here. Using that cute little Image button and pasting in
the location of my photo.
So just to clarify in my muddled brain. I can continue to do it that way and
it will not interfere?

Hi Ann,

Evelyn already said it: There is no need to upload borrower photos.

* You can just refer to them in your posts by

[ img]<URL of the picture on kiva.org>[ /img] (without the space between [ and img] or /img]).

* You can even find an option to add the []-commands just above the smileys (leftmost icon with a picture). If you just click on that, you will just have to insert the URL.

* You will get the picture-URL by right-clicking on the picture (e.g. on the loan's page on kiva.org) and then selecting something like "Copy image location". Then you can just paste it into your post with CTRL + V.

* Once you are getting used to it, that is soooo much easier than always saving and uploading the photos.

To show you how it has to look in the end I will include a photo below. Just try to "quote" my post and you will see what it looked like for me.




I hope this helps - I always find it difficult to explain such things (and in a written form and in English...),
Best wishes,
Wolfgang.

[Diane R]

Right, Ann: when you do it that way, using the little picture-frame icon, you insert a link or pointer into your post, allowing the forum to display the image at "that location over there" where it already exists.  When you instead upload a photo, you store it on the KivaFriends server, and that's what's taking up space.  Pointing to a picture that's already stored somewhere else is fine.

--Diane.