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anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Did you try interpunction,phro?

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phrontister

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Re: Deleting or editing images

I was going to, but there are so many other options to try as well that I didn't bother. I think it's pretty clear that the main problem with deletions is that the plug-in goes awol when confronted by a space in the filename.

That probably stems from DOS days.

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bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Hi phrontister;

The problems with deleting a post have happened to me even without spaces in filenames. Even without pictures. I thought it was firefox.

That is not exactly what you are doing but I always thought the two problems were related and were unique to me.

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phrontister

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Hi Bobby,

Although I have Firefox I've never used it for forum posts, so I have no experience with it on that score. I used to use IE, but always GC now.

I saw what you said in post #46:

You must edit before you can delete.

I didn't know that...I'll have to try it some time.

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Hi phrontister;

It is hard to test because you are not supposed to delete posts for no reason, unlike the images it affects totals and things.

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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Ah, yes. Ok..."when necessary", then.

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anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Didn't Dev post and delete just to boost his post count? I think this is more helpfull thus more allowable. The action still needs the approval of a mod or an admin.

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phrontister

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Hi all,

It seems that multiple images in a post are automatically sorted into ascending filename order, despite the selected Upload Slot order.

A specific left-to-right order can be achieved using ascending alphabetic or numeric prefixes for the filenames.

My first attempt with this post - where I hadn't used that tactic - positioned the images in the following order, even though I'd selected the last one in Upload Slot #1, the first one in Upload Slot #2 and the second one in Upload Slot #3:-
First image - "WHWGAWIGW-partial solution"
Second image - "WHWGAWIGW-solution.png"
Last image - "Who has which garden and what is grown where.png"

After I resubmitted my post with prefixes 2, 3 and 1 respectively, the images displayed in the correct order.

Last edited by phrontister (2012-07-23 13:50:50)

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bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Hi phrontister;

That is working for for me.

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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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phrontister

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Hi MathsIsFun,

The option that existed previously of being able to insert an image into a post from the Edit page seems to have disappeared, and I can now only insert images into a new post.

I found the old way to be useful for replacing an existing image (eg, to update or correct it), which I could do by using the same file name as the original.

Is it possible to bring that feature back?

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Deleting or editing images

I will look at doing that.

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phrontister

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Thanks, MIF.

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Mathegocart

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Re: Deleting or editing images

yeah i can edit them.

Last edited by Mathegocart (2013-05-05 03:53:52)

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anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Not those images. Uploaded ones.

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The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Currently, not only can't the player do it but neither can a mod.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

The player?

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The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Meant the OP. I am doing a problem and was thinking about it while posting.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Which problem?

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“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
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The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Same one. The one all mankind should be working on but is not...

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Your health, I hope?

Last edited by anonimnystefy (2013-05-05 07:12:34)

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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Nope, that is out of my hands now.

I was talking about the Commissioner's problem.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Which one is that?

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The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Commissioner Rumy.

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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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anonimnystefy

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Re: Deleting or editing images

Never heard of it.

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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

bobbym

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Re: Deleting or editing images

That may be true but you did work on it.

http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=19268

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.