As normal.

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Is that supposed to be sideways? It's showing sideways for me.

Per my post #84 (from which it appears IBxAnders borrowed an image to test in post #96 :) ) I am pretty sure it is not the EXIF rotation data that is wrong, but that FT's backend software does not correctly interpret it.

i.e. in plain terms I think the raw image is stored rotated, let's say 90 degrees clockwise, but also includes EXIF data saying "hello image display software, I am rotated 90 degrees clockwise so you should rotate 90 degrees CCW before displaying me." But FT's software ignores that and displays the image as-is.

The conversion tool I described in post #84 takes such an image, rotates it 90 degrees CCW and deletes the EXIF rotation flag. IMO this is NOT a "correction" to the image -- it is a workaround for systems that don't take the EXIF rotation data into account.

I haven't done extensive A/B testing, but in my experience posting photos here, I think you may be right. Images that show properly rotated on my phone and on my laptop (Windows picture viewer) are sideways on FT, and I have to actually go in and edit the image and re-save/re-upload it--not just rotate it in Windows, which edits the EXIF data only--to get it to display properly.

Mike, you should be able to test and confirm, I think. I'd do some testing now, but the connection I'm on is pretty mediocre so uploading photos now would be an exercise in frustration...

... and I bet you could upload the same original (unedited) image to Facebook, and Facebook would post it in the correct orientation.

A patch has been installed -- please purge cache and try again...

there is not a way to see a certain poster's posts with attached photos is there?

i do like the feature of being able to click and see all attached photos in thread ^

Once you've selected the option to see a member's posts, there's no further way to refine or select for those posts with embedded or attached images. Sorry.

yeah i know someone posted something, cant remember where :D

I have been trying to upload pics into an Expert Hotel review. I uploaded 2 pics. Now I keep getting the message: "Error while moving uploaded file to destination folder, check folder permissions on server side". What does that mean. Does Flyertalk have some kind of thing turned off? After this aggravation, I will never do another hotel review for Flyertalk. Too much time and effort for aggravation and no thanks.

Can you tell me how you uploaded the pictures? There are several methods to do this on FT and in order to figure out what happened I will need to know how you did it, thank you.

Also if you can tell us your device type and browser version, that would help.

I just published a hotel review with multiple pictures and no error messages.

First, thanks for the fast reply. I initially tried Opera and could not upload any pics. In Chrome, I managed 2 pics. I'm using a Windows desktop, cable modem (so fast), now Chrome. Pics are coming right off the card, stuck in the computer. I have pics on the computer, but I find pics faster on the SD cards. I emptied the cache and that did not help.

OK I have reported this to my tech team.