can't upload any more photos. HELP PLEASE.

[HGH 770N]

Error: This forum has exceeded its attachment space limit. Your file cannot be uploaded


THE PHOTO'S I UP LOAD ARE WELL WITHININ THE ALOCATED SIZE AND THIS IS THE MSG I GET.

Rog

[toystoretom]

Due to the government shutdown photos can no longer be uploaded.

[HGH 770N]

Well that just a sh!t for us guys in the UK.

[SuzukiRE5]

I will look into this and see what's going on. I'm surprised that I didn't get any messages from proboards telling me about it before it happened. Thanks for the alert.

[SuzukiRE5]

I found out what is wrong with the picture uploads. The website allows 200 mb of space for uploads that go directly to the websites storage. We are at 199 mb now. The only way this can be corrected is to delete pictures that aren't really being viewed and are just taking up space. The other option is to get your own photo storage account such as Photobucket which is what I use and upload your pictures to that site or any other similar site and then link the pictures on here.

I can go through all the pictures that have been uploaded directly to this site and delete those which I feel aren't being viewed and I may do that but there is hundreds of pictures that have been uploaded. I wouldn't have to delete the posts, just the pictures. It would take quite awhile to complete going through all of them though. You guys can help by viewing your previous posts and deleting any pictures that have been uploaded to the site that you feel aren't being viewed any longer.

An option to get more storage space on the site is to pay $36.00 for another 300 mb of storage space but it doesn't make sense to do that when we have the option to get our own storage (photobucket or similar site) and not have to use any of the site storage space. Another way to help for the future is when you upload pictures directly to this site, try not to upload pictures that are 500 or 600 kb in size. I saw quite a few of them when I went through the list of uploaded pictures. I know the site says 1 mb maximum size on an upload but if everyone uploaded 1 mb files, we could only have 200 pictures stored on the site.

The best solution is to get the photobucket account and direct link your pictures from that account to this site.

Update: I just spent about an hour looking at pictures and the threads that they are on. It's very difficult to delete other peoples pictures because they may be important to the person who posted them. I was looking at pictures from 2009 and 2010 and although they are old posts, most of them could be useful either to the member who posted them or others doing searches for information. I did delete about 10 pictures that cleared up another 4 mb of storage for future uploads. Most of the pics that I deleted were pictures of barn find bikes that weren't followed up with restoration pictures. Most of these were people who found the bikes and were trying to sell them on here or posting a link to an ebay auction and that was there only post. I didn't see any harm in deleting these rough looking bike pictures. I'm sure I can find other pictures that can be deleted and will probably do some more another day.

[toystoretom]

Thanks for working on this.

I have been using PhotoBucket but that is a little tricky at times. I'm not much with computer code but often after you put the Photobucket link in it has too many "http:/"s at the start of the link code and I have to clean that up to make it work in the preview. It's not hard but but you kind of have to watch it when you use Photobucket (or probably any other photo hosting website). Plus you have to factor in that fact that I usually do what the voices tell me to do.

[fonnyfth]

Have some REALLY interesting pics on my PC.
the ultimate barnfind.... :-)
will try to put them on photobucked and post the link.

[toystoretom]

Do it We like pictures!