links degrading

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October 22, 2008 at 9:22 am #279233

stevedeer
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hi all

I have just created my first blog… http://desaturate.wordpress.com/

It’s a photo blog, but I’m finding that some of the photo links are degrading after a while (not finding the uploaded image on wordpress servers). They seem fine at first.

Can this be resolved and prevented?

thanks in advance

steve deer

October 22, 2008 at 9:28 am #279403

teck07
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Welcome to wordpress,

I tagged this thread with m*dl**k to grab staffs attention for you

Beginners Guide

Also by linking your name to your blog it will serve the purposes…
If you need to ask a support question in the forum then it will make it easier for the volunteers to see what blogging platform your using & will aide them in giving you a more accurate answer to your question.
http://teckline.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/how-to-link-your-blog-to-your-name/

October 22, 2008 at 9:46 am #279404

raincoaster
Member

We need specific links to the posts you’re talking about. We will need to see an example.

October 22, 2008 at 10:47 am #279416

stevedeer
Member

here’s one that’s problematic at the moment…

http://desaturate.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/carolines-wedding/

it looked fine the other day

cheers

October 22, 2008 at 10:53 am #279420

raincoaster
Member

I see the pictures just fine. Has it cleared up for you yet? All your pictures come up just fine for me.

Sometimes there’s a temporary server issue and some pictures go down for a few minutes. I wonder if that is what happened?

October 22, 2008 at 12:45 pm #279431

stevedeer
Member

teck07…

thanks… have now linked my name to my blog

raincoaster…

no, the image (link in my previous post) is still missing… however, when i click on the blue square with question mark (I’m on a Mac) it takes me to a page with the image

regards

October 22, 2008 at 12:48 pm #279432

stevedeer
Member

in fact… now I’m getting a ‘file not found’ page when i click on the blue squuare… things are really acting weird

October 22, 2008 at 12:49 pm #279433

vivianpaige
Member

I don’t see any pictures in the link you provided. It must be the server issue.

October 22, 2008 at 12:57 pm #279436

1tess
Moderator Emeritus

I see the picture in “snap” and it appears if I click on the empty rectangle where the image should be.

October 22, 2008 at 1:06 pm #279439

teck07
Member

I see the picture in snap also but when I click it I the 404 error
as well when I click I the blank space I get the same error 404
file not found.

October 22, 2008 at 1:39 pm #279443

stevedeer
Member

…and it’s not specific to this particular image, it’s happened a few times… that’s why I say the link ‘degrades’. I’m not attempting to correct this in this instance… hoping to get a resolution to the occurring problem… I’m pretty sure I’m doing everything right.

In fact… I’m looking in the ‘media library’ and this image has disappeared along with the ‘crow’ image… I’d love to know what’s happening!

steve

October 22, 2008 at 9:02 pm #279509

designsimply
Staff

@stevedeer, you provided a link to http://desaturate.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/carolines-wedding/ but the image referenced in that post is for a different blog http://stevedeer.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/c1.jpg This could have happened if you started your blog at stevedeer.wordpress.com and then did an export/import to move the posts, pages, and comments to desaturate.wordpress.com. Since the stevedeer.wordpress.com blog has been deleted, references to image files uploaded to that blog will not work any more.

Note that you were probably seeing the images continue to work for a while even after you deleted the stevedeer.wordpress.com blog because the images were cached.

October 22, 2008 at 10:21 pm #279531

stevedeer
Member

designsimply

that’s it… many thanks thanks for your time and effort… I’ll resubmit the missing files

regards

steve deer
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