When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Auto Detailing and AppearanceShare tips and tricks on how to make your Third Gen shine! Get opinions on products or how something tasteful looks on your Chevrolet Camaro or Pontiac Firebird.
The "Fix My COTM Winning Pics Because Photobucket Dumped All My Images" Thread
If you have ever won a COTM contest, and your pictures are via Photobucket, there is a good likelihood that your images have timed out, and your car is no longer represented with images in your **Winner** Thread or in the Winners List (sticky, this forum).
I highly recommend that everyone get off of Photobucket and find a less problematic way of keeping pictures for these forums. I have found that Facebook images last forever (they never time out), and it is a simple "copy and paste" transfer to TGO.
If your COTM winning photos have timed out or been deleted by Photobucket (or similar), and you would like your car to be visually represented as a COTM Winner (I hope that would include all who have won COTM), please do the following.
1. Upload old or new image(s) to your TGO Album, Facebook, or whatever floats your boat (preferably not Photobucket or similar again).
2. Post said image(s) to this thread along with the following information:
(2 a). The month and year of said COTM win.
(note) If you would like me to fix your **Winner** Thread along with your winner's list images, then post at least five good images, preferably with two to three different exterior angles, plus one good engine, and one good interior shot.
Follow those instructions, and I will fix your images.
Yeah, I've seen that in some of my older posts. I don't use PB anymore. I always use the "insert image" tool. I figure "most" of us are doing that, but thought I'd throw it out there because I DO see people linking to PB and other sources.
I was linking my old photos to my own webspace, but my ISP shutdown the domain, so a lot of my photos have gone by the wayside also. Not a COTM winner though, so no need to fix any posts.
Last edited by scottmoyer; 07-23-2017 at 08:58 AM.
So...my desktop computer that I use to manage COTM is kaput. But don't worry - I will fix each and every COTM Winner thread, so just keep those pics coming.
Also, I'm working on getting an LS3 in the Formula, so I'm not saying exactly when, but those threads will be fixed.
82tarecaro, there were no issues with any of your pics.
Guys, there is no need to post here if your pictures have not timed out or otherwise been deleted. Please check and make sure that there is a problem before posting your pics in this thread...that is unless I just took to long and you fixed the problem yourselves...in that case, carry on.
82tarecaro, there were no issues with any of your pics.
Guys, there is no need to post here if your pictures have not timed out or otherwise been deleted. Please check and make sure that there is a problem before posting your pics in this thread...that is unless I just took to long and you fixed the problem yourselves...in that case, carry on.
That's odd. Most other places I used photobucket, the pics are gone.
Resurrecting this to give some people another opportunity to fix their pictures. Please read post #1 and contact me ( @QwkTrip ), not Linson. These are the people with broken photos in the COTM Winners List:
I'm pretty sure all the images that I posted for my COTM winning Month in January 2015 were/are still hosted on my website. I just looked at the January COTM thread and all my pics seem to be displayed ?
It showed up using the oldest browser I've got,...... IE11 running on Windows 7 How about this one ?? ( I changed the actual link address from http: to https: )
Sorry, I misspoke earlier. I'm not using Safari because it's so old it freezes up on this site. Limping along on a different browser for years now. Your pictures are the only pictures I can't see in this thread.
I saw the radio pictures in our IM's just fine from a few months ago.
I could boot up my Windows 7 machine but I don't think it's going to change anything.
Weird,..... I've posted pictures & schematics using links directed at my website for years and years and never had a problem; Even now I wouldn't have know there was a problem at all if you didn't send me a heads-up. Everything looks fine on all my screens. So they question is: Since the all the OS/Browsers I currently use show all my pics without a problem ( IE 11.0.9600.19230 and Chrome 79.0.3945.88 on Windows 7 and Safari an IPhone SE on iOS 13.3 )
What platform ISN'T allowing them to appear ??
My pics are - quite literally - simple .jpg picture files on an https: server,.... doesn't get anymore basic than that.
07-21-2017, 01:28 PM
