Pictures disappearing !?

What's the story with all, well not all but many, of the pictures being deleted (on two of my computers) in the "Drag Cars in Motion thread ?

My thread of the two "Black Bird's". The copied picture is now MIA, while the picture that I posed is still there !

Or is is just me, (two different computers !) ?

Mike

 

My present **** got deleted for being the wrong year. 73 doesn't cut the cake under any cir***stances I guess. Whatever.

 

When I joined I probably had a 55 Chevy but I've been known to go thru cars. I suppose I could disappear until I have something a little more vintage but I still like older cars.

 

Your pic of the Old Blackbird has been replaced with the dreaded red X.
This means that they have not been deleted by a moderator here.
It is something to do with the way you have stored/uploaded the pic.
Check out some info here: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/search/347799217/?q=red+x&o=relevance

 

I've noticed photos copied from f'book disappear after a few days. All by themselves.

 

Red X often means that they were stored on Photobucket and that is where the issue is.

Also if you delete the photo off Photobucket or change it you get the red X here.
I had a bunch of trouble with Photobucket a few years ago when they redid their whole site and I lost a bunch of photos I had on here and most of a day's worth of photos from Trog at Pismo Beach.

As for photos of a car getting kicked out because they were the wrong year the rule has always been 64 or earlier unless it is a 65 with the exact same body style as a 64 = 65 Nova or 65 Rivera. A 73 anything doesn't fly from the get go and anyone who has been on here since Sept 14 2008 should know that.

 

Hello,

The key thing is that you and everyone needs to control who has the original photo or at least the copied photo saved onto your own computer files. Once that is done and you don't use a "cloud" storage facility or program, you control who or what happens to your photos. If you copy from from some source, they may change the listing on their computer and now, it won't register on yours.

So, a copied photo can disappear by itself. Sometimes a copied source adds in their own logo to take credit for their posting. Your photo may not have the new addition of the company logo. All the red x does is that it is "speaking to you, saying your photo source has changed, I can't seem to contact the source or get it from the original posting, and that it is too bad..."

I once glanced at old photo stories from back in 2015-16 time posts. I had to re-do the story and photos, because of somehow those links were changed somewhere in the computer world. Whether it is my own files or the HAMB files, something made the red x show up. No, we do not subscribe to any "cloud" source except for automatic Iphone photos, free service from Apple for my wife.

Jnaki

So, I had to go back into my files and find the film source. The You Tube link was still good, something just got crossed and I figured out what it was. In some old film listings, I had put in what was a general time period of filming the drag racing, checking out the background and clues in the film. So I would put 1959-60, to encomp*** a safe range.

When I found the exact date or year, I made an edit to 1960 Lions...etc. and then the listing on You Tube was fine. But on the HAMB thread, the red x showed up or "video not available." The red x came on the still photos I also edited the ***le of the saved photo.

Be patient, watch out for copied photos that you did not take with a camera and remember what or how you listed them in your files. Any little change will bring up the Red X.

 

Just upload the photo into the thread and then it's there forever. If you just post a link to a photo it can disappear if anything happens to the source that your link points to. Download the photo from wherever you found it to the hard drive on your computer, and upload a copy of it here, then it will be here forever. This is pretty basic, really shouldn't be that difficult to understand.

 

I've noticed it happens a lot when I snag a photo from another site it shows up when I post it and later it's gone, I have started downloading them to my PC instead of coping and pasting.

I haven't lost any photo's since I started doing it that way. HRP