Using tinypic.com

[copippin]

I got all the answers I needed when I asked my question yesterday about showing pictures on AB,but I have a further problem,when I click on browse,My pictures seems to be the only file that doesn't come up,what am I doing or not doing?! everyone else who tried it met with success,I guess I'm the bottom of the class!

[Buenchico]

I'm a little confused. If My Pictures doesn't come up, what does?

Chris

[copippin]

My computer,My Network places,My documents,but not My Pictures!!

[Buenchico]

In the absence of any other information, if your PC is looking for where to store files or, as here, looking for where to load them from, it will normally open the last folder which you accessed. If for some reason it can't do this (e.g. if the folder has been deleted) it will always go to My Computer. It could be that there's some sort of registry error preventing your PC from following the normal pattern. I could suggest some possible registry fixes but, to be honest, it's probably not worth the hassle. After all, it only takes a few seconds to navigate from My Computer to My Pictures.

All the same, if you want to try to persuade your PC to use the correct default, just try saving any picture from the web to My Pictures. Because you've accessed this folder, your PC ought to treat this as the default folder. (To check, without even going to another page, right-click the AnswerBank logo at the top-left of this page. Select 'Save as'. Then navigate to My Pictures and save the logo there. If you then go to tinypic.com and click browse, your PC should now use My Pictures as the default folder).

Chris

[copippin]

Many thanks chris,I am pretty new to all this but am VERY slowly getting the hang of different manouvres.Obviously it takes a self taught old bat a little longer than most to learn new things,and as yet,I haven't any grandchildren to put me right!!!

[copippin]

carried out your last instructions and it worked.many thanks again chris.

[maggie01]

I had trouble with that yesterday but I looked in My Documents, then found My Pictures. Easy when you know how! I was just lucky my grandson happen to visit and he showed me and he's only 15yr.

[MustafaTinkl]

May I just ask, to get "Browse" to operate you have to press "Select". This is alright when you have uploaded one picture on its own. But when you have uploaded a group of pictures they are all stored together, so to open the folder you have to press "Select". When you get to the picture you want in the folder and click on it all you get is "Preview" and it is impossible to click on it and get "Select". How do you overcome this, please?

[Buenchico]

MustafaTinkl has got me completely confused!

TinyPic is specifically designed for hosting SINGLE images. At no stage in the process of uploading or downloading pictures have I ever seen the word 'Select' on my screen, so I'm totally lost!

If you want to upload multiple images (other than one at a time, with separate links), don't use TinyPic, use Webshots (or Photobox or Photobucket or any of the myriad of sites that specialise in hosting web galleries).

Sorry to seem unhelpful but, as I've said, you've got me totally lost!

Chris

(PS: I love that screen-name. It sounds like something from Round the Horne!).

[smudge]

A day late but: If you have lots of pic's in My Documents, right click on each one, press Copy, go to the My Pictures icon, then right click on it & press past - your pic's will be transported to My Pictures. (Although you might have already done this).

[smudge]

*I meant press Paste (with an 'e' on the end - not past)!

[MustafaTinkl]

Thanks for thinking about it, Chris. I get both "Select" and "Preview" as stated above, but never mind - "Green grow me nadgers O". Blow the computer, I'm staggering off back to the scotch to sing the "Ballad of the ******** Mooly".

[MustafaTinkl]

Bless me, this Answerbank is funny. You more than probably know it, but the word was only "W-0-g-g-l-e-R-s.