Posting Pic Problem

[sgo]

When using the photobucket URL such as
http://img54.photobucket.com/albums/v164/sgomachen/CAR%20PICS/fc_wag_redback.jpg
you can link to the pic.
But if i use the same URL in the "insert image" button to post an image, it doesn't come up in the post .

Anyone got any ideas?

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

First up get the picture in a window by itself, then copy the URL that appears in the IE Address Bar. Then, when you do the image thing make sure you replace %20 with a proper space. That's how I did it anyway.

[sgo]

I never would have guessed that!
Thanks for that, it does work.

[customFC]

Stinky.
You little ripper.
I have opened a photobucket but was very disappointed that I could not post the pics here. They worked everywhere else, but not here. Your tip means I don't need to use Starphoto.
Many many thanks.
Regards
Alex

[RET]

Generally speaking, if you can avoid using spaces in file names you will make your life easier, because URLs should be a string of characters without spaces in them.

Also, there seems to be a bug in YaBB that I haven't quite figured out that causes image names with more than one hyphen in them to not display properly.  Maybe it has a similar conniption over embedded spaces.  In any case, if you can stick to a naming convention like this: "MyGreatFCPic.jpg" (with no spaces, or other punctuation marks) you shouldn't go too far wrong.

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On the off-chance you're interested %20 means space because otherwise unprintable characters in URLs are shown as %nn, where nn is the hexadecimal (base-16) number of that character.  Space is decimal (ASCII) character number 32, which is 20 in hex.
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cheers
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