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[poweroper 0]

I realise this may be a stupid question but please bear with me as

I am a silver surfer and not at all good on PC's.

When reading trip reports etc. a lot of the time I am getting:-

 

a red x with user posted immage beside it

 

Could somebody please take the time to explain to me how to open these.

Have tried right click and selected the various options but none of these work.

 

Thanks.

[MM 6,562]

Sometimes, the picture just isn't available anymore. If you have a red x, it means the forum software could not find (or timed out loading) the picture from the location indicated in the post. To see where the photo should be, right click and Properties on the image box. It will show you the actual internet location (URL) for the photo.

This frequently happens when someone posts a report using a photo sharing service, and then the service shuts their account down.

Anyway, to give you better assistance, it would help if you would give the URL to the topic where the photos are not appearing. Then it can be determined if there are, in fact, missing photos in the topic. Otherwise, we're just guessing.

[poweroper 0]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Efficient as always.

Ken

[Long Tall Cowboy 1]

It can also happen if you are using a ISP provider that has the site where the photos are stored blocked for some reason.

 

This generally happens if you are at work using your Company's network connection to reach the internet and your Company has that site blocked!!

 

That is the case for me. I think MM uses pattayapics.com and my company has it blocked so i can never see his pics that he posts!!

 

LTC