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Does anyone else find uploading pictures to albums incredibly tedious? I think I must be doing it wrong because seven mouse clicks for each file seems to me a less-than-optimal user interface.
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No I don't find it tedious at all.
It works well for me, the last big batch of files I uploaded were those in Heather's albums, they all went in fine.
<Here> Hover over the pics to see their file names and you'll see their order. I have had the odd glitch in the past where one file of a group was out of order, I either lived with it or deleted them and did it again.
FTP is not an option here as the images are stored as an element of the forum database.
The main reason for only three pics uploading at a time was because we had serious picture loading and displaying problems with certain php scripts running on one of our host's old servers. Back then we had a 600x600 pixel limit.
Since the server update the picture loading and resizing has improved allowing us to move to the 800x800 size that we currently use. This has worked fine and many members are now resizing their own pictures before loading, which is good, your photopaint/paintshop type program will do a better job of resizing than the forum software.
As things have been working well, I've just changed the number of pictures that can be uploaded at one time to five. If we start to have problems then I'll take it back down to three again.
Sam wrote a very good guide on uploading pictures,
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The bottom line is that the forum software we are using is an older version and has some minor peculiarities in certain areas. Having said that, IMHO this forum's album routines are a lot easier for users than some of those on the other hobby sites which use external image hosting.
CT