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A simple copy and paste will not work. The result is a blank box which if you look at the WYSIWYG screen just shows the path on your own computer, something like C:\onewoo\mydocuments\imagezdfs25.gif for example. That is merely the path to the image on your pc, not the image itself.

If you try the Inser/edit image icon on the Post Reply screen and try to paste the image there, nothing happens.

The only alternative to using the Photobucket method is to use the Add Attachments option at the bottom left of the Post Reply screen. You can download images on this site's systems.

As an example in this post I have downloaded the samurai penguin I found for Lori. At the foot of this post you will see reference to an attachment. The photo is shown in miniature next to it, but if you clicked on the little photo you would then get taken to a screen showing just the photo.

Having made the attachment, you can now copy the image location by right clicking on the photo which you would see in your posting in the Post or Edit Reply screen, and selecting Copy Image Location. Then paste that using the normal Insert Image method.

Note that unless you have a VIP membership, the original photo size is not necessarily preserved. You also have the fact that the attachment link is shown which makes your posting a bit messy. There's no doubt that it is better to use the Photobucket method.

And here's the image I downloaded, so there is no point in clicking on the attachment link

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El Loro
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I wonder if it's the operating system thing again. I'm on Vista and I.E.8
But I'm on XP Prefessional and Firefox 3.6.3, so unless Dirtyprettygirlthing uses somthing else, I don't think its the operating system, but a different browser might be the cause so that instead of the copying process copying onto your pc's data it copies on to the browser's own data until you paste.
El Loro
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But I'm on XP Prefessional and Firefox 3.6.3, so unless Dirtyprettygirlthing uses somthing else, I don't think its the operating system, but a different browser might be the cause so that instead of the copying process copying onto your pc's data it copies on to the browser's own data until you paste.
Oh right.
FM
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Oh, I'll deffinately have a look at Chrome tomorrow then
I had a suspicion that it would turn out that Dirtyprettygirlthing used Chrome when I made my post about a different browser letting you copy pictures direct by copy and paste. I don't know a lot about Chrome but did read that it has an anonymous option so that your browser history isn't recorded on your pc which other browsers do.

Apart from the point that if you can surf without data being stored on your pc which seems to suggest that some extremely nasty people could misuse this, I have another concern about using Google Chrome. Not only is Google dominant in the search engine world and can know what you have searched for, by using Chrome as well, Google can know all the websites you have visited. I'm not saying that they do, but surely they could have the facility to be able to target adverts to you which match your usage. That might appeal to some, but personally I find that a bit disconcerting.

I don't know that this does happen - someone else who does use Chrome may be able to enlighten us.
El Loro

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