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[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

Herman,

Putting in a URL will not preserve the pics on our site because they are still vulnerable to being moved--making the URL useless--or the demise of that other site.

Ed, this is the part of David's post I was addressing. His statement is correct. Linking external photos versus uploading to the forum by any means.

Using the image icon to post a photo simply places the URL to the photo inside of the [IMG] and [/IMG] tags and the photo will only remain on display in that post as long as no one changes the URL or location that is linked.

Using the Upload from a URL feature in the Advanced/manage attachments screen uploads a copy to the forum versus just linking to the external file.

He understood what I was trying to tell him.

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

Thanks, John, now I understand how our software works for this method. My misconception is cured!