Cabin : Flight 011 Location : South Somerset, UK Posts : 5101 Join date : 2011-06-05
Subject: Upload from iPad/Android using PhotoBucket Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:53 pm
Photobucket is an online (cloud) storage service for photos. Once uploaded, they can be shared with different people or groups of people in different ways, but better still, each uploaded image has a unique url that can easily be used on the forum.
The service is free to use with up to 10gb of photo storage and a few ads although there are also 'pro' accounts if you wanted more storage or to remove the ads.
If you are interesting in using Photobucket to ease the posting of pics to the forum then here goes:
1) download/install the app from the relevant store, it's free to download.
2) when you run it for the first time it will prompt you to 'sign up' using an email address etc. This is also free and easy to do.
3) If you want Photobucket to automatically upload and save/backup a copy of all the pics you take on this device, then you don't need to do anything. If you don't want this then simply disable the feature when prompted 'auto backup' - OFF. I use a different cloud service to backup ALL my photos, I will only use this one to host images to be posted on the forum, but it's up to you.
4) Open up the Photobucket app.
5) There is a large "+" in the bottom left corner. Click it and select the images you want to upload.
6) Select an image that has been uploaded and click the "i" in the bottom left corner. This will display a list of differently sharing options. Simply touch the 'Direct' link and it will automatically copy it.
7) Switch to the forum and browse to the location you want you post - you may have already started to compose a post and went off to Photobucket to do some uploads, in which case head back to there. Click the 'insert image' icon, select the area below "URL" in the pop-up that appears and 'paste' the previously copied url.
click insert then finish your post as normal.
Job done.
NOTE: The second part of this only applies when viewing the desktop version of the forum as none of the standard icons (incl 'insert image' are available in the mobile version.
Subject: Re: Upload from iPad/Android using PhotoBucket Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:18 am
I uploaded a picture using PhotoBucket from phone last night and it worked fine however I can't view it using a laptop this morning. There is a message saying 'photo not found' ? The picture in question is the 50p pumpkins on the Halloween thread.
Tallulah
Cabin : Flight 011 Location : South Somerset, UK Posts : 5101 Join date : 2011-06-05
Subject: Re: Upload from iPad/Android using PhotoBucket Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:30 am
harryhornet wrote:
I uploaded a picture using PhotoBucket from phone last night and it worked fine however I can't view it using a laptop this morning. There is a message saying 'photo not found' ? The picture in question is the 50p pumpkins on the Halloween thread.
That's what odd, it does appear to be missing. Can you check your PhotoBucket account and see if it's still in there?
Subject: Re: Upload from iPad/Android using PhotoBucket Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:37 am
I'll take a look later.
timmm
Cabin : Business Location : holmfirth Posts : 746 Join date : 2014-05-15
Subject: Re: Upload from iPad/Android using PhotoBucket Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:48 am
last night i downloaded the Photobucket app. At first it wouldn't let me open an account saying my email was incorrect (it isn't). but uninstalled app and re-installed it (3 times),then it accepted my details and opened me an account. i managed to upload 23 photos from my phone (galaxy S5) but it will not allow me to send or upload any of my photos to anywhere else. When i select a photo, a message comes up saying unfortunately Photobucket has closed and would i like to send a report, which i have done several times.
Cabin : Flight 011 Location : South Somerset, UK Posts : 5101 Join date : 2011-06-05
Subject: Re: Upload from iPad/Android using PhotoBucket Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:33 pm
timmm wrote:
last night i downloaded the Photobucket app. At first it wouldn't let me open an account saying my email was incorrect (it isn't). but uninstalled app and re-installed it (3 times),then it accepted my details and opened me an account. i managed to upload 23 photos from my phone (galaxy S5) but it will not allow me to send or upload any of my photos to anywhere else. When i select a photo, a message comes up saying unfortunately Photobucket has closed and would i like to send a report, which i have done several times.
Am i doing something wrong ?
Nope, sounds like app is crashing. There are thousands of web pages all over the internet reporting crashes on Android devices, this is the unfortunate downside of an open source environment where anyone can create an app and anyone else can download and install it on their device with little or no control. All too often, one app conflicts with another and the end result is an unexpected crash.
Try disabling all other apps and trying again. You could also look at clearing the app data and cache, but you will need to find info on how to do that elsewhere as I have no idea how to do it.