Posting large >200K screenshots (and the Caen map)

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GottaLove88s
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Posting large >200K screenshots (and the Caen map)

Post by GottaLove88s »

leci wrote:Spotted another problem in Caen battle. Did take a screen dump - the trick now is to embed into this topic...

Help!
Guys, thanks for your various heads up on Caen. I think I've found and fixed all of the "French House 4"s in the Cathedral district now... They will go live when I upload our battles for the 2nd wave of June 7th... Until then, Caen players please be wary to check the "cover%" before you move... 63% cover is a house, 13% is open flaming death, or risk thereof... Another particularly ingenius player (not yet in GJS'44) has discovered a secret path into the castle, but frankly, if you can find it, and you can get away with exploiting it, versus anything that your enemy has fortressed in there, then you deserve to have got in! ;-)).

For anyone hitting problems sharing >200K screenshots, the easiest way to do it is using an online upload/download account...

HOW TO POST LARGE SCREENSHOTS

1. Sign up to any free upload/download account
2. If you haven't already got one, please use this link -> http://bit.ly/freeDropbox4ScreenshotsEtc
3. That will sign you up to Dropbox which is reliable and gets both of us about 500MB of free space online
4. Once you sign up, this will create a "Dropbox" folder on your desktop
5. Drop anything into that folder and you can pick it up whenever you're online
6. However, inside that Dropbox folder is a "Public" folder that you can share with other folks
7. So, next time you want to post a screenshot, get the URL for that picture, eg. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31228617/BA/GJS ... o/Caen.jpg
(they follow an obvious pattern, which the IT literate will easily see, but for people like me, you can just "copy public link" for that file from your Dropbox).
8. Then just type that URL into your forum post, select that text, and click the img button in the forum editor. Submit your post in the usual way.
9. Voila, the BA forum will pick up your screenshot from your Dropbox account no matter how large it is.
10. Sorted!

Greetings from somewhere warm that isn't quite the beach yet... :mrgreen:
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Seelow'45 -> www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=313&t=55132
Normandy'44 -> www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=42094
Dieppe'42 -> www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=42347
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Re: Posting large >200K screenshots (and the Caen map)

Post by k9mike »

I guess its a good thing I have a 75mm parked right in the middle waiting for you to try that "crap"...lol
Having fun on vacation Jon??
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Re: Posting large >200K screenshots (and the Caen map)

Post by LandMarine47 »

A little help Jon :oops:
I'm using my windows 8 laptop and I want to begin upgrading all my screenshots and I'm following all these steps but the photo does not upload. I have Dropbox installed and how do I make things public? Windows 8 has a different set up than whats described. Help is appreciated
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