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Post by Firefox on Jul 15, 2014 22:08:26 GMT
Try not to do big attachments.
We have limited space for attachments (200Mb) and keep knocking our heads on the ceiling which means some older large attachments need to be deleted.
The secret is to use an external host (eg Postimage, photobucket etc)
There are loads of them and they are free and don't they eat into our space. We can buy more space here but it costs $$ per month for not that much extra attachment space.
Things like puzzle jpegs are fine. They are small and only take up a few kb. I just created 10mb of space which should last for years with small attachments. Try to go for 30k or less.
But if someone attaches 11 photos 900k each, the limit will be reached again.
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Post by Is it spring yet, dormouse? on Jul 15, 2014 22:10:11 GMT
Am I the guilty one?!
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Post by Firefox on Jul 16, 2014 4:50:13 GMT
No one person... we've all done it including me Its easy to fill 200mb in a year. I guess the limit is low as they want you to buy more storage.
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Post by Alec on Jul 16, 2014 6:59:35 GMT
Tell me Vern, although all my recent Scotland pics and vids were via photobucket, was it just too many per day? I'm just a numpty when it comes to k's and mb's.
.....Alec....
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Post by n brown on Jul 16, 2014 7:19:54 GMT
damn ! better sling all those Rachel Riley bikini pics then
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Post by edina on Jul 16, 2014 7:41:32 GMT
damn ! better sling all those Rachel Riley bikini pics then Don't be too hasty!!
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Post by Firefox on Jul 16, 2014 14:23:16 GMT
Tell me Vern, although all my recent Scotland pics and vids were via photobucket, was it just too many per day? I'm just a numpty when it comes to k's and mb's. .....Alec.... Yours are fine since they hosted on an external server. It is attachments that eat our limit. To give you an idea 200mb limit would give us 10,000 photos of 20k attachment size, but only 200 photos close to 1000k or 1mb attachment size.
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Post by Alec on Jul 16, 2014 15:03:09 GMT
Thanks Vern for reply, might take a blog thread if you get it sorted.
.....Alec....
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Post by Pollik on Jul 16, 2014 16:24:58 GMT
Thanks for the heads up, Vernon.
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Post by Firefox on Jul 16, 2014 16:35:08 GMT
No probs, sorry it is like this... Proboards trying to earn a living, which is understandable. But it is easy to get round using various web-hosts. The way I do it is open another tab in postimage.org/Then upload images using their browse widgit ("batch" uploads of many at once are possible) Copy the direct URL of the image and post in a separate FMUK tab with my post between [ img] [ /img] tags (without the spaces after the [ brackets ). This is actually much better than attachments here, as if you open a free account at postimage, you can get access to your uploads at any time. They will probably go to a paid model after a year or so like image shack, but then you just switch to another free host, there are loads of them
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Post by Firefox on Aug 19, 2014 16:13:46 GMT
Reminder - as we hit our upper limit again... I have freed up 15MB now. We only have 200 MB total on the free programme... The blockage is caused when people attach 1MB or similar large 800-900k photos which happened for some Farmer Phils pics. This eats up the float storage rapidly. You can see that our freed 15MB will last for 150 x 100k photos, but only 15 x 1MB photos. If you attach very large images, they may get zapped if I have to free up a float space. I tend to zap the very big ones, as one big one frees the way for 20 small ones. But the best policy of all is to use postimage.org to host your photos (or photobucket etc) These do not affect our internal storage of attachments. On those photohosts you can post any number, any size you like and link to them here
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Post by n brown on Aug 19, 2014 17:03:20 GMT
20mb image hosting wow i never did that before ! cheers Vern. this some cheddar cheeses mouldering away underground at Wookey Hole,just the first image to come up to try this postimage thing
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