when I go to attach a picture it seems that I can't use the same picture again

I get a message that says it has already been posted in another thread"

what if anything can be done about that?

 

It's been this way for some years and does cause some inconvenience since there is no easy way around re-uploading the same attachment. It hasn't received many complaints about it over the years.

Renaming the image will not work. The only way to get around the restriction of re-uploading the attachment is to slightly alter, even just the slightest, the image to change it's properties. Otherwise, a different approach would be to "hotlink" the picture by copying the URL of the previously used attachment, then pasting that URL into the new thread surrounding by the IMG tag.

I will review the possibility of perhaps removing the restriction.

Thanks.

 

You could always post a link to the picture, but that only works if you know where the picture was posted before.

For example, in this post:

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/post...08-post13.html

if you want the middle picture, you can do this

{IMG}https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/attachments/members-camaros/170063d1232240178-******-87-z28-log-100_2796.jpg{/IMG}

You just need to replace the { and } with [ and ]

will look like this


Basicly, you can click on the yellowish icon



and put the link to the pic in the box that pops up

 

Yes, when you attempt to upload the same attachment, the attachment system will inform you if the attachment has already previously been used. If so, it will provide a link to the thread where the attachment was previously used. The user must then go to the thread, find the post where the attachment was used, right-click to select the properties of the image to copy the location (URL), return to the thread the user is creating and paste the link inside the IMG tag.

This is why I state it's not exactly easy, nor is it interactive.

But if users have no problem with the feature as-is, we can keep it that way.

Don't forget about the Photo Gallery. Each user can have multiple albums where you can upload your ThirdGen photos and post within the forum. In fact, each photo you upload to your Photo Album contains the URL for easy reference and usage:

 

That's really all not that hard with "Tabbed" browsing. But maybe I just suck at the internet. Maybe there is an easier way I don't know about?

I mean, isn't that's why it gives us the link, so we can use less bandwidth by having a picture hosted once, instead of the same picture hosted over and over?

 

It's not hard for you and myself, but that assumes everyone has the same technical-savvy skills, for lack of better wording. Considering I work with users daily, I can say all users don't find this type of stuff as easy as others. No offense meant to anyone. We all have our strong and weak points. The fact this topic exists in the first place shows it doesn't come natural, or as easy, to everyone.

And, technically, this really is not about bandwidth. If the image is hosted in thread "A" because that's where you initially attached the image, and it won't let you re-upload the same image for thread "B", so you instead "hotlink" the image from thread "A" into thread "B", it's still going to consume bandwidth because it's still being hosted by ThirdGen. It does not save bandwidth if you hotlink it from an existing thread within ThirdGen, rather than be allowed to re-upload the same attachment a second time.

It's more about controlling the size of the attachments in the database or file system, which is currently several GBs.

 

Haha, I always consider myself as "sucking" at computer stuff. Maybe I'm a little more advanced than I thought. But all that other stuff is over my head.

 

if you right click on your pic select properties and when that opens youll have a tab on top (Summary) click it and there is TITLE type what ever in there and you can attach same pic over and over as long as you change that everytime thats what i do