Forum limits on attachments?

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

The 'attachments' tab of my user profile shows that I'm using 75 mb for 550 attachments.

Is there a limit on this?

 

[gggGary]

I am not aware of one. Attachments tab? I can't find it d-oh.

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Uh, sorry, not 'tab'. In 'control panel', at the bottom of the left menu is 'attachments'. It allows you to manage attachments, those mini-pics, pdf's and such, in postings.

I use attachments rather than full-size pics to minimize page load time, for those of us in the remote, bandwidth restricted wilderness.

 

[gggGary]

Finally, found it! I have about the same attachment stats. Wonder where 5twins is at? But I think he tends to use photobucket or some such.

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

I looked into using photobucket. I'm sure it works well for most folks, but it acts strangely for me. Sometimes net-timeouts, sometimes enters the app instead of showing the pic, sometimes floods me with advertising, sometimes crashes my tablet from reported 'trojans'...

 

[Travis]

If you run into some kind of limit, let me know and I'll find it in the software and change it.

DADDYGCYCLES has everyone beat at 1,039 attachments and 178.80 MB

 

[hard_y_rd]

I can't post a quick 7 second vid. What's the trick. I'm a dumbass when it comes to this stuff.

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

I can't post a quick 7 second vid. What's the trick...

I'm on either a smartphone or tablet, so can't do the proper point/select/click routines of the PC.

What I've done is to do a 'quoted' reply to a post that has one of these imbedded tricks. The 'post reply' edit screen comes up, revealing the forum language syntax to do a particular trick, like having a youtube namecode surrounded by the bracketed YOUTUBE commands.

You can borrow (select/copy/paste) the desired part(s) of the text, and paste them in somewhere. Then, edit the name of the video to suit, and do a 'preview post' to see if it works...

 

[hard_y_rd]

So if i take a video from my phone, do i have to post it on youtube to get it to work on here? If i just try to link it from my computer is says invalid file or the file is too big.

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

That's what I've had to do. Created a youtube account, uploaded a video, use that namecode for the "youtube" command. Your smartphone is not a website, so it can't host your vids...

 

[hard_y_rd]

Stupid smartphone.

 

[Travis]

It's not the phones fault, it's just that we don't host videos. We don't have the software or bandwidth ($$$) to stream it to the world. Youtube and Vimeo both do and do it well.

 

[Travis]

Valid file extensions: bmp doc dxf gif jpg pdf png psd txt

 

[hard_y_rd]

It's not the phones fault, it's just that we don't host videos. We don't have the software or bandwidth ($$$) to stream it to the world. Youtube and Vimeo both do and do it well.

I know it's not the phones fault. Technology is taking over and my brain doesn't have the "bandwidth". Lol