Thread: X in Box

In some posts here which have images inserted, I don't seem to be able to see all the images. Instead I see a little box with an x inside it. This is not on all posts and seems to be a bit hit and miss, as in some posts I can't see the image but when I scroll forward to read other messages in the same post images are there. Any suggestions? I suppose it's just a setting thing but which setting.

Thanks
John

It could be broken links to images. They may have been deleted from the host site.

No, I don't think so, it was a message only added the day before, and other people could see the pictures. It has to be something in my settings, I can have several pictures side by side, and for whatever reason just not all of them load, and I get the little x in the box instead of the image.

John

I think it's just the download of the photo timing out. Sometimes I get that too if the photos are large in filesize, or if there are several photos in a post/thread.

You can right-click the box where the photo is, and then click "show picture." You can also refresh the whole page, and that may get all the photos to appear.

Originally Posted by xChris

I think it's just the download of the photo timing out. Sometimes I get that too if the photos are large in filesize, or if there are several photos in a post/thread.

You can right-click the box where the photo is, and then click "show picture." You can also refresh the whole page, and that may get all the photos to appear.

Thanks Chris,

I shall go and give it a try immediately, if I can find the post it was happening in.

John

No that did not work. The post in question is here, and I cannot see what the initial post images are, but I can see the image in post 4 OK.

John

Yes, John, I get the same thing- when I right-click on the first picture box and check properties, the address it's trying to link to is:

http://www.benrosenfield.com/feather-acj1.jpg

I wonder if it might be something with Ben's server?

-whatever

-Lou

Actually, in looking at it, thats a rather old (Sept - '06) post - Ben might have taken the picture down - the other pictures in the thread seem to link to pictures in the Gallery, so they show.

maybe........then again, maybe not......

-whatever

-Lou

Hi Lou,

Yes I think you are correct, I did not realise it was such an old post.

John

This is a good example of why it's not such a good idea to link to pictures from a server outside of SRP... once you do it you have to keep that picture there forever. It's way to easy to forget you linked to it and inadvertently delete it or move it to another folder, etc... hence, breaking the link to the post.

I do it too, sometimes... but usually only for graphics that are expendable to the meaning of the thread (eg, a special smiley, a cartoon, etc.).

But for important pics of topical stuff... razors, mugs, etc. I prefer to either "attach" the pictures or put them in the Gallery and then link to them... that way they're uploaded to SRP and I can forget about maintaining them from then on.