Copy/Paste Pics in Messages No Working
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 09:25 AM, Steve wrote:
Tried to add a pic to a post in two different groups, didn¡¯t work by copy/paste. ?Pic limit no reached as an FYIThings like this can happen if the image is in your browser cache but no longer resident at the source. You didn't state where the original image was located or how you got it on your clipboard.?Images, when subjected to a copy operation in a browser, are usually transferred to your clipboard as a URL. When selected and copied from image editing software, it is copied as a Binary Large OBject (blob). If the original source could not be found, an error of this type is sent to the clipboard instead. From the error above it seems you were trying to copy an image that was thought by your OS to already be resident somewhere in groups.io, but couldn't be found. We will need further details on this. Summarizing, what I'm seeing suggests that the error occurred during the copy, not the paste.? I then tried to edit the post to insert pic by using add image icon, in the edit mode the Add image button didn¡¯t show.This is normal. Adding images (or any other attachments) during a message edit is not a permitted operation. Did a third reply to the same post, this time the add image button appeared and I was able to attached the pic.Add Image does not use the clipboard -- the image is instead uploaded as a file. This is the preferred way to put an image in your message.? Hope this helps, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:56 AM, Steve wrote:
To the source, it was a clipping from newspapers dot com. I normal copy my clippings directly from that site right onto my group post.Steve -- Be careful doing that. As stated earlier, copying an image from a web site generally puts its?URL on the clipboard, not the actual binary image. It may seem to work for awhile, because the recipient probably has web access, and it can continue to be fetched as needed....but if the image is ever moved or deleted at the source, it will magically disappear from your message, too. In addition, if the image requires some subscription for access, it's likely that no one receiving your group post will see it at all...simply because they aren't logged into newspapers.com like you are. This could explain your failed-to-fetch-the-blob error message. To confirm, go to Emailed Photos and check to see if the image you added actually appears there. If not, then it isn't resident in groups.io. Maybe related to the iPad vs the windows laptop.That could be, but generally speaking you're really rolling the dice by using cut-and-paste. The only robust way to embed an image via the GIO message editor is to first download it as a file, followed by uploading it with the Add Image dialog. Regards, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
Bruce