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Old 01-26-2018, 03:18 PM
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Posting thumbnail pictures can be done directly at least for me via my iPad Air 2 without use of an external device.

Just edit your post and click on the grey “Manage Attachments” button under the Additional Options section which will take you to a screen, then click on the top button and you should be directed to your photo albums to indicate which photo you want uploaded, finally click upload. Hope this works for your situation. After uploading completed click Close This Window.

Note clicking on the thumbnail within a post enlarges it.
You may have known this but that is not clear at least to me from your post.
Shoreguy, thanks for your reply. Maybe I can clarify a couple things. I'm pretty sure that I can upload a photo from my own files on my desktop and have it appear as a thumbnail, as you describe. However, on this and every other forum I belong to, I hear people saying how you should use an external photo hosting site like PhotoBucket, Flickr, or whatever else is out there. I'm wondering why this is recommended. What is the harm in me uploading a photo directly from my own device? Are there privacy issues? If not, what is the benefit of using the hosting site?

Forgive me if these are naive questions, but I am just not very knowledgeable when it comes to computers, smart phones (don't even own one of those), and all the technology that goes along with them. I have used a computer for decades for my job, but what I do amounts to not much more than word processing and looking stuff up on the Internet when I need to.
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However, on this and every other forum I belong to, I hear people saying how you should use an external photo hosting site like PhotoBucket, Flickr, or whatever else is out there. I'm wondering why this is recommended. What is the harm in me uploading a photo directly from my own device? Are there privacy issues? If not, what is the benefit of using the hosting site?
One possible cause might be server capacity. Forums take space (capacity measured in MB, GB, TB, etc) in a server and space costs money. While forums are free, they are hosted somewhere and it costs money. I admit that, up to a certain point, it might be free but beyond that it must be paid. And photos occupy lots of space.
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One possible cause might be server capacity. Forums take space (capacity measured in MB, GB, TB, etc) in a server and space costs money. While forums are free, they are hosted somewhere and it costs money. I admit that, up to a certain point, it might be free but beyond that it must be paid. And photos occupy lots of space.
Sorry, rbarata, but I'm not understanding your point. I know photos take space on a forum. A dog training forum I belong to has a strict limit on the posting of photos for this reason, but if a forum does allow photos at all, don't they take up the same amount of space, whether I uploaded them from my desktop or from PhotoBucket?
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Sorry, rbarata, but I'm not understanding your point. I know photos take space on a forum. A dog training forum I belong to has a strict limit on the posting of photos for this reason, but if a forum does allow photos at all, don't they take up the same amount of space, whether I uploaded them from my desktop or from PhotoBucket?
No, if you are using photobucket, Flickr or similar the photo stays on that site and is taking up space only there. When you post a photo from one of those sites to a forum you are posting a link to that image, even when there is a photo embedded in the post. Case in point, if you delete that photo from photobucket or move it to a different folder, the embedded photo in a forum post disappears, because the url link behind it is broken.
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No, if you are using photobucket, Flickr or similar the photo stays on that site and is taking up space only there. When you post a photo from one of those sites to a forum you are posting a link to that image, even when there is a photo embedded in the post. Case in point, if you delete that photo from photobucket or move it to a different folder, the embedded photo in a forum post disappears, because the url link behind it is broken.
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Right! Thanks, Camille, for the explanation.
If you find a thread with photos from photobucket (most of my old posts, for ex) you'll see nothing because the link to the photos was disabled.
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Yes, thank you Camille and rbarata for the further explanation. I may not understand the details of how that works, but I have certainly seen some examples of the link being disabled for some people who were using Photobucket and did not pay the fee.

Can anybody answer my question about if there any risks to me, safety or privacy-wise, if I were to upload a photo from a file on my own device? Is this a common way of doing it, or do the majority of you use a remote hosting service?
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Can anybody answer my question about if there any risks to me, safety or privacy-wise, if I were to upload a photo from a file on my own device?
It depends on the device. For ex, if you take a photo with a smartphone (and probably all similar devices) hte file itself (the photo, in this case) stores some info, such as type of camera, date and hr when the photo was taken, etc, etc. The most critical is that it may store also the location where the photo was taken. I'm not sure if this is something one can disable.

To see what I mean, select one photo, right click, then properties and finally "details".
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I nearly always upload from my PC... that's just where I keep the photos (which I also crop and "size" before doing so) Can't think of any security issue that would be a problem.
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