How about a bandwidth warning?

[bevans6]

How about a warning on posting links that have large bandwidth requirements?  I clicked on Harleyman's link, because I was interested to see his bus, and the file was so huge it took over 5 minutes to download.  I couldn't cancel it, even ending the browser didn't work.  And in the end I couldn't see the pictures because my photo viewer wouldn't load them, incompatible file type or something.

I should know better, but maybe a little help?  If you post something over a couple of megs, put a note on it?

Brian

[Jeremy]

Unfortunately the forum software can't know where a link goes to or how big any downloaded files may be (or whether the file is actually a virus etc). It's different when photos are uploaded to the forum itself because the software can see what it's uploading and imposed some limits - but when it comes to links it's the user's job to exercise caution before clicking.

Jeremy

PS - Kudos to Harleyman for choosing to use a picture of a Plaxton Panorama as the logo for his busgreasemonkey.com site - it's good to have an aspiration!

[Scott Crosby]

He wasn't supposed to share it like that.  It was a whole folder of images I took of his bus and thats how I sent it to him to download.  He didn't know how to share them here so he posted the link to the whole zipped folder.  he didn't know that it was almost 80 megs. He tried posting some of the images here but couldn't get it to work because they were high res. 

Understanding photos and how to share them is not an easy thing. 

I took the folder down off the site.   

[harleyman_1000]

 I am so sorry for what I did. It won't happen again. I didn't know that posting the link would do that. From here on out I will ask you guys before I try something that I am unsure of doing.

[pabusnut]

Harleyman,

Sounds like you need to "mentor" a teenager!!!!!  Ha! Ha!   

My 12 yr old has been getting daily "mentoring sessions" since I bought my first IPOD last week 

Steve Toomey
pabusnut

[Jeremy]

I am so sorry for what I did. It won't happen again. I didn't know that posting the link would do that. From here on out I will ask you guys before I try something that I am unsure of doing.

Don't worry about it - lesson learned, no harm done.

As a sort of comparison - yesterday I received a Christmas Greetings email from a company I registered with a few months ago. A nice gesture - except for the fact that I was one of 1350 customers to whom the email was openly carbon-copied.

Jeremy

[HighTechRedneck]

Photobucket is an easy (and free) way to handle photos ( www.PhotoBucket.com ).  You upload all your photos there, then when you want to share one or more on the forum, just get a link for it from photo bucket and put the link in your post.  It will automatically resize the displayed photos to a download friendly size, yet the full size image is always preserved and available.  And there are many more ways you can use the photos stored in Photo Bucket - emails, Facebook, family newsletters, etc. just to name a few.

Paul did a video demonstration of it that is available here:

http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=13997

The layout of the Photobucket screens have changed some since that video, but the methods are still pretty much the same.

[harleyman_1000]

Ok I posted a new topic with my pictures in a photobucket link


http://s783.photobucket.com/user/harleyman_1000/library/Gm4104%20bus?sort=3&page=1

[FloridaCliff]

Let me just add, the only issue I have with linking to other locations for photo's or anything else is, that eventually that information, photo's etc will disappear.

Many times while searching the archives I have found links or pictures that were gone, thus making the continuity of the post hard to follow at best...

Cliff

[HighTechRedneck]

I've seen that too Cliff and agree.  It really hurts the archives if the photos are later deleted.  On some occasions that is the result of the person deleting their entire photo hosting account or the image hoster eliminating their free service or going out of business.  But Photobucket seems pretty committed to having their free service level and is owned by Amazon.  Of course they promote their paid levels of service but the free account works fine for this kind of limited use.  I think it comes with about 2GB of storage space.

Even on the free account you can designate individual photos or albums public or private.  If you make one private, then only people you give the link to can access it.  Or you can even password protect individual albums so that they need the link and a password to see the photos.

You can post links to albums like was done by harleyman_1000.  Or you can directly show the picture in your post by clicking the "IMG" link beside your photo in photobucket and then pasting that in your post.  It will display inline in the post like this wherever you paste it: