Author Topic: Can't post image  (Read 5791 times)

peterpeter

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Can't post image
« on: February 21, 2011, 01:35:57 AM »
I'm trying to upload this image:  http://www.meliorism.com/users/peterpeter/images/ouroportal1.jpg
to put on this page:  http://ouroportal.com/wiki/Joey_Katana_%28Champion%29

Or I could just link to it.  Whatever is the preferred method.  It seems like uploading images is what other people did, so I tried, but I keep getting "file extension does not match MIME type".  As far as I know, the MIME type is JPG, and it's a JPG type file, so I'm at a loss.

Any suggestions?


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Re: Can't post image
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2011, 02:10:37 AM »
Beats me.  I went to the image and saved it to my hard drive.  I then went to the upload page on O-portal, browsed to the saved image on my desktop, and uploaded the file (with a slightly modified name).  No problem.

http://ouroportal.com/wiki/File:Joey_Katana.jpg

When you were trying to upload the image, were you modifying the destination name at all?  If so, did you leave the file extension off the end?
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Re: Can't post image
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2011, 02:17:55 AM »
Ah, that was it!  I didn't include the .jpg on the destination file name.  As soon as I added that, it worked!  Which... is kind of redundant, since you already uploaded the file.  Oh, wait, it didn't work.  Gave me a different error message, though, pointing out that it was a duplicate of the file you uploaded.  And you created a category page for me.  Thanks!

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Re: Can't post image
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2011, 02:28:25 AM »
Yay!  I made a good guess! :)
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