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05-09-2008, 03:09 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Swamp (Where Else?)
Gender: Male
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Couple of things don't seem to be working any more
First, I used to get notice via email when someone sent me a pm here. I thought that was very convenient. I no longer get this notice.
Second, I can't up load any of my swamp critter pics into my avatar. I always get a failure message.
Will anyone tell me in small, simple words what I'm doing wrong in each instance?
Thanks,
ST
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05-09-2008, 03:14 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: May 2007
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I believe you can select your email options somewhere in your profile preferences.
Are your critter image files too large?
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05-09-2008, 03:28 PM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Sep 2007
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before the crash, avatars of roughly 100 x 100 were accepted. Now it's only 80 by 80. I had to downsize my av to be able to use it.
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05-09-2008, 03:32 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Southwestern Pennsylvania
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You may have to reset some things. The email notification setting is in your User CP.
I had the same avatar problem and had to make my pic smaller which annoys me no end.
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05-09-2008, 04:00 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Thanks, all.
how does one make their pics smaller? (modern pc English certainly does lead to singular/plural problems)
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To identify the elements of style, perhaps we should begin by eliminating the idea of correctness.
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05-09-2008, 04:08 PM
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I had to open mine in $@#! Paint and (grumble) scale it down.
*prolonged grumble*
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05-09-2008, 04:16 PM
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Prolific Writer
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blech. okay, I'll enlist my son.
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To identify the elements of style, perhaps we should begin by eliminating the idea of correctness.
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05-09-2008, 04:23 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Crop your pictures, ST. Use Microsoft Picture Viewer or Paint, as Foxee suggested. There'll be an option in the Edit section called "Crop". Use it. Be wary, though. By cropping down to 80 x 80 you are essentially removing most of the picture. It's going to have to be a small picture to begin with, otherwise you'll end up removing half of the damned thing, and it will look like f**k all squared. Pardon my French.
Sam.
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05-09-2008, 04:58 PM
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I wouldn't crop unless there is a lot of extra stuff on the pic that you're willing to lose. Scale instead and you won't lose anything.
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05-09-2008, 05:04 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Good point, Foxee.
Sam.
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To those who live by and never stray from the creedo of "show, don't tell," here's a thought - it's called storytelling not storyshowing.
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05-10-2008, 09:50 AM
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cropping and resizing pictures is almost automatic with my iMac. a single button does it all. however, nobody here can see the results because I cnnot upload any pictues to this site.
thats my luck.
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05-10-2008, 10:10 AM
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Moderator
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Yes, you can. You just would not work through the problem. Humor me and follow these steps.
1. Copy this link exactly.
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...ndowDarkSM.jpg
Note that it is a full address. Addresses that work generally start with http://
2. Open a reply box.
3 hit the damn little button with the mountain on it.
4. paste link
5 hit ok
6. post result
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05-10-2008, 10:32 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alanmt
before the crash, avatars of roughly 100 x 100 were accepted. Now it's only 80 by 80. I had to downsize my av to be able to use it.
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I think it was 80x80 before the crash, Alan. I had trouble getting an avatar to fit. But it could also only be 19.5K. That's the message I saw anyway.
The avatar I have now used to be slightly larger; it looked like it had white dashes all around the outside. I used Photoshop to crop it, and then saved, and somehow it ended up larger. Go figure.
I just can't seem to reduce the size or quality on anything enough for it to fit on the site. 
Oh yeah, there used to be an unlimited inbox amount for PM's, now there's a limit of 500 (not that I'm using that all up or anything)
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05-10-2008, 10:36 AM
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Ink Slinger
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There was always a limit of 500 in the PM box, Joi. Mine's almost full now, so I'll probably have to delete them all. Oh well.
Sam.
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To those who live by and never stray from the creedo of "show, don't tell," here's a thought - it's called storytelling not storyshowing.
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05-10-2008, 11:14 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Winchester
There was always a limit of 500 in the PM box, Joi. Mine's almost full now, so I'll probably have to delete them all. Oh well.
Sam.
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Was there? I swear I saw unlimited before.
LOL guess you're more popular than me!
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Salutations from my corner of the universe,
Joi
"Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth."- Stephen Hawking
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