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"Wam author"
Love you, too
And how do you get the pictures here in UMD to display in a certain order in a single post?
Sadly you can only attach a maximum of four pictures, which is a pain and why some of my stories are divided into parts. And you cannot insert them into the body of text.
But it would be great to see more writers and readers of stories.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
But it would be great to see more writers and readers of stories.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
Messy Irina said: Sadly you can only attach a maximum of four pictures, which is a pain and why some of my stories are divided into parts. And you cannot insert them into the body of text.
But it would be great to see more writers and readers of stories.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
But it would be great to see more writers and readers of stories.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
You can attach more.
Underneath the area to upload photos, in tiny font, there's a link that says "upload more pics". Once you click on that, you get to upload at least ten more.
I even wanna be me! -- Zoe
Sadly the 'add more' text does not appear on the Story Posts the way it does on normal thread posts.
Messy Irina said:
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
And true to form they were posted the wrong way round!
HA! Aint that a shame. I once spend over an hour trying to arrange four photos in the order I wanted, and never got it.
Messy Irina said:
And true to form they were posted the wrong way round!
Messy Irina said:
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
And true to form they were posted the wrong way round!
In my experience posting photos -- and believe me, I've posted a LOT of photos in my day -- the order they are displayed in on threads is alphabetical based on the filenames.
So in the case of Irina's two amazing pics above, the files themselves are named:
Slimed pic: experiencingambushtales_uid_36739_1760007479_79446
Clean pic: readingambushtales_uid_36739_1760007479_12282
And they are posted in alphabetical order based on those filenames.
What exactly constitutes alphabetical order can get tricky if there are spaces or numbers or symbols at the beginning of the filename. So I would recommend renaming your files before posting and using something very simple like this:
first pic: AA
second pic: BB
third pic: CC
etc.
If you don't want to rename the filenames of what you're keeping on your hard drive, just make copy and paste the photos you want to upload into a new folder, rename the copies, then delete them after they are uploaded.
If you are batch renaming photos you'll get filenames like AA (1), AA (2), AA (3), etc. I've found the UMD alphabetization routine will put AA (10), AA (11), A A (12), etc. BEFORE the ones named AA (1), AA (2), etc. You can fix this by manually adding in zeroes to the single digit numbers AA (01), AA (02), etc. But that's kind of a pain in the ass. If you've got more than 9 photos and you want to batch rename them and keep the order you've already got set, I would strongly recommend doing nine AA's, then nine BB's, then nine CC's, etc.
Gurph Morlicks said:
In my experience posting photos -- and believe me, I've posted a LOT of photos in my day -- the order they are displayed in on threads is alphabetical based on the filenames.
So in the case of Irina's two amazing pics above, the files themselves are named:
Slimed pic: experiencingambushtales_uid_36739_1760007479_79446
Clean pic: readingambushtales_uid_36739_1760007479_12282
And they are posted in alphabetical order based on those filenames.
What exactly constitutes alphabetical order can get tricky if there are spaces or numbers or symbols at the beginning of the filename. So I would recommend renaming your files before posting and using something very simple like this:
first pic: AA
second pic: BB
third pic: CC
etc.
If you don't want to rename the filenames of what you're keeping on your hard drive, just make copy and paste the photos you want to upload into a new folder, rename the copies, then delete them after they are uploaded.
If you are batch renaming photos you'll get filenames like AA (1), AA (2), AA (3), etc. I've found the UMD alphabetization routine will put AA (10), AA (11), A A (12), etc. BEFORE the ones named AA (1), AA (2), etc. You can fix this by manually adding in zeroes to the single digit numbers AA (01), AA (02), etc. But that's kind of a pain in the ass. If you've got more than 9 photos and you want to batch rename them and keep the order you've already got set, I would strongly recommend doing nine AA's, then nine BB's, then nine CC's, etc.
Messy Irina said:
And true to form they were posted the wrong way round!
Messy Irina said:
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
And yes the posting order can be random - see below - only a 50% chance these come out in the right order.
And true to form they were posted the wrong way round!
In my experience posting photos -- and believe me, I've posted a LOT of photos in my day -- the order they are displayed in on threads is alphabetical based on the filenames.
So in the case of Irina's two amazing pics above, the files themselves are named:
Slimed pic: experiencingambushtales_uid_36739_1760007479_79446
Clean pic: readingambushtales_uid_36739_1760007479_12282
And they are posted in alphabetical order based on those filenames.
What exactly constitutes alphabetical order can get tricky if there are spaces or numbers or symbols at the beginning of the filename. So I would recommend renaming your files before posting and using something very simple like this:
first pic: AA
second pic: BB
third pic: CC
etc.
If you don't want to rename the filenames of what you're keeping on your hard drive, just make copy and paste the photos you want to upload into a new folder, rename the copies, then delete them after they are uploaded.
If you are batch renaming photos you'll get filenames like AA (1), AA (2), AA (3), etc. I've found the UMD alphabetization routine will put AA (10), AA (11), A A (12), etc. BEFORE the ones named AA (1), AA (2), etc. You can fix this by manually adding in zeroes to the single digit numbers AA (01), AA (02), etc. But that's kind of a pain in the ass. If you've got more than 9 photos and you want to batch rename them and keep the order you've already got set, I would strongly recommend doing nine AA's, then nine BB's, then nine CC's, etc.
Very useful! Although you have to ask...... why is it like this??????
I would have thought AA(1) would have preceded AA(10), but maybe the "( )" make a difference. A filename alphabetizer doesn't read 1, 2, 3, etc. as numbers. It reads them as characters, and it compares characters from left to right until it finds a difference. So when alphabetizer compares AA(10) to AA(1), it does the following:
compares the first character to the first character: since A = A. it moves onto the second character
compares the second character to the second character: since A = A. it moves onto the third character
compares the third character to the third character, since ( = (, it moves onto the fourth character
compares the fourth character to the fourth character; since 1 = 1, it moves onto the fifth character
compares the fifth character to the fifth character, since, as a character 0 < ), AA(10) precedes AA(1)
since the alphabetizer has ordered the two, it moves onto the next comparison, ignoring any remaining characters that might happen to remain in the filename.
compares the first character to the first character: since A = A. it moves onto the second character
compares the second character to the second character: since A = A. it moves onto the third character
compares the third character to the third character, since ( = (, it moves onto the fourth character
compares the fourth character to the fourth character; since 1 = 1, it moves onto the fifth character
compares the fifth character to the fifth character, since, as a character 0 < ), AA(10) precedes AA(1)
since the alphabetizer has ordered the two, it moves onto the next comparison, ignoring any remaining characters that might happen to remain in the filename.
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