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Hello!

Yesterday I tried to get worked media library together with flickr. I want, that I can import pictures from my flickr account to the media library or instead links to the pictures on flickr.
I had already before one Apl-key for using the flickr plugin, which shows a block of pictures in the sidebar. Now I got a second flickr api-number, which I have copied in the free field for it in the flickr import plugin.

I was not succesful with several trys to get from flickr pictures in my media library. Only such yellow cubes were shown and in front end the flicr adress were added to the adress of the side of my blog. I tried also with shortened urls.

(Btw: Is there anyone who can use flickr pictures in the media library after uploading them from flickr?)

After all a little time later I got aware (when searching for dead links with a tool), that the pictures in my articles are not more visible. The thumbs of all pictures are still on their place.

The small picture and the title picture of every article where used are still visible. These pictures are linked only.

When I re-integrate the pictures into the extended entry (not linked, I emedded them, like always), they first appear after switching from html modus to the editor modus. But they still stay invisible on front end. After clicking a second time in the backend "save entry" they are no more visible here as well.

What happend?

Only one other thing I have done before yesterday. I activated again the microformats-plugin, which formerly caused problems with the tabs of my template. - So I deactivated this plugin again, but without effect according to the missed pictures.

Something seems to be wrong with the urls.

I had formerly similar problems with dead links to pictures, but it was clear: after renaming the pictures in the library I had to re-imbed them in the articles (but than probably it was not embedded picture?!).

After so long time using media library I still do not understand the whole functions and order.

Who has hints for me to solve the problem?

Hi!

Quite confusing to read this post.

Maybe your issue is the WYSIWYG-editor and/or your browser? Does everything work properly without using it?

Regards,
Garvin

(Ooohh, the server for this forum is so slow now.)

Quite confusing to read this post.

But not for coders and programmers!

Well, now, after looking on the server I found out the reason:

I am missing one level, the root adress my fellow has taken me away. Last time he announced to limit my user rights. He should have informed me in forward, what concret he wanted to do here.

Anyone who recommends me a communicative hoster?
Til now it was for free. I am a guest, not a customer.

Hi!

But not for coders and programmers!

I am a coder, and I think I got about 15% of your posting.

(Are you using Babelfish for the english translation? This is REALLY hard, even your latest posting - I don't understand what you solved how at all. )

Best regards,
Garvin

I am sorry. It´s to seldom when I am practising english. Perhaps better to post the problem in the german part of the forum.

For short:

In my blog articles since yesterday I am missing all the pictures. There are either a kind of placeholders or only a smal cube like 1x1 px at the place.

example:

http://blog.ost-impuls.de/archives/405- ... enste.html
more at the end.
you see theire underline text for the picture, bold.

I don´t know the reason for that.

Any idea?

Hi!

Yeah, maybe it would be an option for you to include a german version of the article so that someone can understand you properly.

Did you follow up on my suggestion to first check if it's an issue with the WYSIWYG editor?

The image that you reference has this URL:

http://blog.ost-impuls.de/uploads/Winte ... chloss.jpg

This yields a 404 error. What would the proper image URL/Name be like? Also, how exactly do you insert images like these.

Regards,
Garvin

If it helps Garvin, the images that do work on his site are contained within an extended property... the images that do not work appear to be in the extended body and were therefore inserted via whatever editor he is using.

This is just a shot in the dark, but is there any limitation on how long folder names can be? Some of these have very long names, ie:
"

Hi!

In the german part Don wouldn´t have read my cry for help. I am thanksful if he gives feedback
it was my intuition to post in english ...

I guess, this is the key, that strange adress.
I was using a dead link finder yesterday, but it had not found that one (but one to my flickr-stream. I am still waiting for an answer from flickr service team because of that now.)

It should be this url:
http://blog.ost-impuls.de/uploads/Versc ... chloss.jpg
without that:

Winterlandschaft-im-RiesengebirgeWinterlandschaftimRiesengebirge

The last is the description of the picture. How it could come into the url? And why two times?
The picture was at the beginning, when I published the article, at right place, I have to guess, because it was visible in the article.

Normally my workflow is so:

***

1) Preparing the pics on my pc, shrink them to the needed size 608x456 or 360x480,

2) Uploading them from my s9y-backend to one of those folders like:
/upload/Verschiedenes/

... which appears (you know) here (for the example)
http://blog.ost-impuls.de/pages/gallery ... chiedenes/

3) Then I am used to give the description and tags, saving the changes and

4) ... do actualize the gallery so I can see the new pictures in the gallery.

[5) Sometimes I then change the name of the file.
Maybe this is problematic here (this time): That changed file isnt, what I get offered, when I integrate afterwards this picture via WYSIWYG-editor, but the file with the original name (when I uploaded it). When I am doing this, I have the opportunity to add an alternate texture for the picture and to choose, whether the original size or the thumbnail. - That worked fine so far.]

6) Then I integrate those pics in the article entry or exended entry by choosing "embedding", not hotlinking them. After saving the article the pictures are visible for everyone.

7) Sometimes after publishing articles (or actualising with new pictures) I change the name of the picture-file in the media library. Than it is no more visible in the article (an appearance what I have now for the whole blog). Then I go back to the article (by using the Xinha-editor), delete the code for the integrated picture in html-modus and reintegrate the picture in WYSIWYG-modus. like described above. And that it, all okay again.

***

But on the day before I opened this thread I was trying out the upload-function of the media library (without to integrate them in articles). I tried to get pictures from my flickr-stream. What I got, was a zipfile. In the frontend gallery one sees then only a yellow cube (like for the mp3-files I have there). So I have erased those zip-files again.

I do not know how, but I guess, this upload-function or the hotlink-function in the media library for pictures from other websites is the problem. This has never functioned for me, unfortunately.

On my 2nd or 3rd try of this function I remarked then a selection failure at that field, where one chooses, into which folder the picture should be saved. I have forgotten to choose the right category/folder. - Then, I remember weak, I was searching for those zip-files in these wrong folders, but could not see them.

Yesterday I was making a complete backup of my blog.
There is no such folder
"/uploads/Winterlandschaft-im-Riesengebirge"

I will go through all these upload-folders in my backup next.
But at a glance I have not seen any strange thing.

We will see.
I will report the result.

The result
I deactivated the flickr-Plugin "Import from Flickr 0.3"
and "serendipity_event_imageselectorplus" 0.29

Then I deleted the part

Winterlandschaft-im-RiesengebirgeWinterlandschaftimRiesengebirgeVerschiedenes/

in the html-texture, for each picture extra.

Then the pictures appeared again.
Time-taking work.

Problem is solved than.