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| 125020 | 2003-03-02 08:16:00 | I have just been looking at pages of thumbnail photos of Brixham on the internet. Whilst some of them show pictures others of them have this red cross. Why is this, and how do I get all the thumbnails to show as pictures, please? | ssssss (2100) | ||
| 125021 | 2003-03-02 08:19:00 | Right Click on the red cross, and select 'Show Picture'. This should make the picture reload and be displayed. Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 125022 | 2003-03-02 08:20:00 | You can right-click on the box with the red X and click Show Picture. Even though this may work there are things that will not work which are bad links to the picture, You've got an adblocker that sometimes confuses pictures for ads or more bizzare reasons. | Kame (312) | ||
| 125023 | 2003-03-02 10:26:00 | The cross means the picture can't be found. This can be for one of a number of reasons: - the web designer forgot to put the picture in the right place - the web designer misnamed a picture (on a local hard drive a file name is case in-sensitive, on the web it is case sensitive - eg Pic1.jpg is not the same as pic1.JPG) This problem is often caused by someone making a site, seeing it works, uploading it and not checking all ist well. - sometimes caused by the page loading slowly and timing out. Click refresh and try again. If this doesn't work - email the page creator and suggest they check their links. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 125024 | 2003-03-02 20:43:00 | Thanks for all the useful advice folks. Will remember it next time I try to download photos. | ssssss (2100) | ||
| 125025 | 2003-03-03 04:23:00 | I found the Norton Internet Security firewall used to refuse to let either MSIE or the Netscape browser display thumbnails a lot of the time. If you're using that, just try turning it off for the few seconds it takes to display a page-full of thumbs. Highly unlikely anything nasty will get in in that time. The bad news is: I never found out the answer to this problem. I just junked NIS, which didn't bother me as it was only a free trial copy. Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 125026 | 2003-03-03 04:27:00 | Now if it had been S****horpe I might have put it down to censorware :-) But not Brixham. |
argus (366) | ||
| 125027 | 2003-03-03 22:03:00 | Just a further thought or two to bear in mind on this thumbnail problem: assuming these are thumbnails in the full sense of "click on the thumbnail for a fullsize picture" - did you try clicking on the red cross and seeing whether you got a picture? When you mouse-over the red cross, does a URL display in the bottom edge of the browser? Does it have what might be a mispritn? If so, try "correcting" it and entering it in the browser "address" slot. As a last resort, and if you have some basic acquaintance with HTML, try "view" "source". The thumbnails are probably .jpg or .gif references within the items of a table (search for the word "table" and refer to the lines below). That might uncover the mistake. But I say "might". My pick is the author has put the thumbs in one folder and mistakenly referred to a different one. Only he/she can correct that error. Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 125028 | 2003-03-04 05:25:00 | Thanks for the advice Argus. I think Heather P hit on my problem when she said the page took too long to download and timed out. I had a lot of things running at once including KaZaa!!! I can't find the exact page again though to check. |
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