general No matter what I do it says “Upload Failed.” ARGH.

Posted February 17, 2005 • Comments Off on No matter what I do it says “Upload Failed.” ARGH.

Much to what I suspect is Anna’s continuing annoyance, I’m obsessed with getting ecto to make these sexy little image popups for me. Posting images in my livejournal was always such a pain, and if I could just get this to work easily I’d really enjoy myself. Is all I’m saying.

Once a few minutes ago I got it to upload something (a picture of my mother), but although the thumbnail image appears correctly TO ME, the javascript popup doesn’t come up, and no one ELSE can see the images AT ALL because the html all refers to “file:///localhost” and shit. Hell of a lot of good THAT does my burgeoning readership. ARGH. Plus ecto crashed after that.

I don’t understand how this can be so complicated. All I want is to copy the url to an interesting image, or drag one in from my desktop, or link to one that’s in iPhoto, and share it. Right now I have to open a separate ftp client and copy said images to my own website, and I have to use the full-size image as the thumbnail, which is bad practice.

Also the ecto help files say you get to the attachment settings by double-clicking the image in the draft window, but when I do that it launches Photoshop. Not swift. I don’t see any way actually to get back to those attachment settings at all.

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In any case, iTunes is playing Valerie by Steve Winwood. I gave this 4 stars, and I’ve played it 2 times. It’s from Chronicles.