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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 17, 2021 4:18:24 GMT
On various sites, I often see places where a picture should be, but only an X in it's place, hence my question.
If I browse my files for a photo, select it, and then upload it to a site to be included within a post, and then later, for whatever reason, I may move/delete/rename or whatever that image file, will that action cause the picture to no longer display on the site ?
In other words, is the existence of the photo within a website post, dependent on it remaining on my machine in the location from whence it originated ?
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Post by Tpgettys on Aug 17, 2021 5:09:10 GMT
If I understand your question correctly, the answer is a definitive "no". When you upload an image you have done just that, offered up a copy of the image that is on your device, and there is no connection back the original. The other side of that coin is that you quite likely have no control over what becomes of that copy. Because of that, if you think there is commercial value to your image, you might choose to limit the dimensions and/or add a watermark.
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xairbusdriver
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Post by xairbusdriver on Aug 29, 2021 23:23:41 GMT
In olden days, there were sites that you could upload images to for free AND 'point' to them by uploading a 'link' to them. This was great for folks with slow interweb speeds and for forums that didn't/couldn't afford to pay for lots of server space. Alas, those kinds of sites are all but gone. This created problems for those free forums or ones that did not store the images on their own servers; they now have lost the 'connection' to those images. There are other sites that were merged/bought/combined/mixed/shredded/mashed together with others and some images get lost in the operation.
Nothing is permanent on the web... except the ads!
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