[Lowfer] Attachments?

[Douglas D. Williams]

I have been using Photobucket for years, and have had Dropbox installed on
my main PC and my android smartphone for about two years now. I have never
encountered any of the problems that you describe. Dropbox is invaluable to
me one of my other hobbies, play by e-mail computer wargaming. Instead of
actually e-mailing files, which can get quite large, to each other, we
simply share a Dropbox folder and one of us completes a turn, the other
person simply retrieves it from Dropbox. Any picture I take with my
smartphone camera is instantly transferred into a Dropbox folder and is
retrievable on any of my other computers, no USB cables needed.
Does your browser have any problem with the two images I linked? On my hard
drive they are simple 150k (ish) JPG files.

Photobucket works differently than Dropbox. It's not a cloud system, it's a
simple web storage for image files. Files that you store there can be
linked directly to through e-mail hyperlinks or various forum software. I
used to use Photobucket a lot, but since I installed Dropbox, my
Photobucket usage has decreased a lot.

-Doug
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I generally stay away from dropbox and photobucket.  My experience over the
> years has not been good.  Generally they will take a 10K or so file, add a
> couple megs of bloat, then not make it compatable with a lot of browsers
> and
> cause a multi-core computer running at many GHz with the latest OSs and
> patches to choke and die.  I'll spend five to ten minutes loading a bad
> page
> that didn't intend to work right anyway...  When I see those sites, I walk
> away.
>
> Kurt
>
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