Picture Size - As Uploaded vs. As Displayed

[mookien]

I used Photobucket, too, before direct uploading became available. I much prefer the latter, because if your pictures are deleted from PB, they no longer appear on the XMTS posts.

During the introduction of uploading, once the "glitches" on both ends were cleared up, I have never had any difficulty with it, until now. For some reason this picture is exhibiting a problem not seen before. I think if someone can get to the bottom of why the picture, that is 250 MB in size on my PC, is being stored as 20 MB on the XMTS servers, we will figure out the problem.

[mookien]

Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more, ...

Insert suspect picture below:

Now examine the Preview window. Wow! Looks like the problem is solved.

Let's see what it looks like after posting.

Look's as intended, ie great!

Now I'll start that new thread again entitled "Douglas Repro Ramble".

Many thanks to Kilted Code Warrior for his help on this problem. I'll let him weigh in with any details, should he choose, but as I understand it, the extension on my files was "JPEG". If it had been "JPG", the problem would not have occurred.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

For those who want the gory technical details, vBulletin, which is the software used to run XMarks, applies rules/restrictions to files that are uploaded depending on the extension of that file. In this case, Mookien's files had an extension of jpeg, which is still a picture file, but the settings for files with a jpeg extension were not the same as for files with a jpg extension. In order to be efficient with our server storage space, which is where XMarks has to store all those pictures that are uploaded, we can make XMarks limit the file size, and maximum resolution, for a given picture. That was set at 20K for jpeg extension files, so the software automatically resized Mookiens pictures down to a resolution that made the file size 20K. I have updated the settings so that the jpg and jpeg extensions are the same, and voila, it all works as it should.

[mookien]

And I for one greatly appreciate it! I successfully launched my new thread with big, gaudy, JPEG pictures. Thanks again for all your help. What a great forum community!