links degrading

stevedeer · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 9:22 am
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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
teck07 · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 9:28 am
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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/
raincoaster · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 9:46 am
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We need specific links to the posts you’re talking about. We will need to see an example.
stevedeer · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 10:47 am
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here’s one that’s problematic at the moment…

Caroline’s Wedding

it looked fine the other day

cheers
raincoaster · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 10:53 am
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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?
stevedeer · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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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
stevedeer · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 12:48 pm
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in fact… now I’m getting a ‘file not found’ page when i click on the blue squuare… things are really acting weird
vivianpaige · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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I don’t see any pictures in the link you provided. It must be the server issue.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 22, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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I see the picture in “snap” and it appears if I click on the empty rectangle where the image should be.
teck07 · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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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.
stevedeer · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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…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
designsimply · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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@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.
stevedeer · Member · Oct 22, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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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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