+BGunner01 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 I found and successfully logged my first benchmark (MK0092) last week. Try as I may though, I'm unable to upload the three description photos I want to add. I correctly provide information in the required fields for the photo and click on the Upload Button. The button animates, but nothing else happens (unless I have the sound on at which time I get a BOING sound). Further efforts to click on the button give no results at all - the button doesn't even animate. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have any suggestions what I might be doing wrong? I've uploaded several images for various geocaches with no problems at all. Will greatly appreciate any and all suggestions! Quote Link to comment
+mrp Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 Two things to keep in mind. Most places on geoccaching.com you can only uplaod files of 100k or smaller. (I try to keep mine less than 50k.) There are two ways to doing this using jpegs. First is to reduce the size of the image, say from 640x480 to 320x240, or maybe even 160x120 (judicious cropping of the pictures also helps.) The other technique is to reduce the quality of the picture. Most image manipulation packages will allow you to adjust the quality of the resulting image. The other thing to keep in mind is that it may take a considerable amount of time to upload the picture if your upstream bandwidth is small. If you have a 56K modem, then your upstream bandwidth is still only 33kbps, and at that speed it can take 30 seconds or more to upload a 100kbyte picture. If neither of these tips are helping, maybe it's your browser. What browswer/platform are you using? -- Mitch Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 Do you have a pop-up window suppressor running? I had this problem (down to the "Boing"), and I realized that my Pop-Up Stopper was preventing an upload progress window from appearing. If so, simply de-activate the suppression (or, if you are using the same software as I, hold down the control or shift key while clicking on the upload button. Quote Link to comment
+BGunner01 Posted June 17, 2002 Author Share Posted June 17, 2002 My sincere thanks both to Pneumatic and to Embra for taking the time to reply to my plea for help. I had previously reduced the file size of the photos to well below 100K - so that wasn't the problem. However, as I read Embra's reply about deactivating my pop-up stopper, a little spring in my brain also finally went Boiiinnng! Why hadn't I thought of that before? It was indeed part of my problem. I also found that my Allow Cookies setting was set a little too high - I don't know why that has any affect on it, but after I lowered it to the Low setting, I was allowed to upload my photos. It finally worked, and that's all I really cared about --- Thanks again for your suggestions! BGunner01 Quote Link to comment
+BGunner01 Posted June 17, 2002 Author Share Posted June 17, 2002 My sincere thanks both to Pneumatic and to Embra for taking the time to reply to my plea for help. I had previously reduced the file size of the photos to well below 100K - so that wasn't the problem. However, as I read Embra's reply about deactivating my pop-up stopper, a little spring in my brain also finally went Boiiinnng! Why hadn't I thought of that before? It was indeed part of my problem. I also found that my Allow Cookies setting was set a little too high - I don't know why that has any affect on it, but after I lowered it to the Low setting, I was allowed to upload my photos. It finally worked, and that's all I really cared about --- Thanks again for your suggestions! BGunner01 Quote Link to comment
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