Ask the Mods (and the rest of the board) Mark2

[TeresaFoodie]

Thank you!

[Riocaz]

That worked.

[liketocook]

Hi, Rocky has posted on FB that she can't get on to this site. She's getting a message saying her IP is blocked as she is blacklisted. Can any of the mods help? Thanks

[aero280]

I’m not on Facebook.

First question is to find out if she is at home.

[aero280]

It seems that she is online now.

[liketocook]

Thanks aero

[Rocky]

Test to see if I can post.

[Rocky]

Brilliant. Seems to have sorted itself. I'm at home and had wondered what had happened here that had added me to a blacklist thanks all.

[aero280]

It's possible that you have a "Dynamic IP". You service provider may change the one you use each time you connect. If so, his list may contain one that was banned for some reason. I'll have a look.

[aero280]

I'v had a quick look at the list of banned IP addresses and none of them resemble the one that you are using. Very odd. Must have been a temporary glitch.

It's possible that your own service provider put up a temporary "Ban Everyone" to stop any traffic while they did some maintenance on their equipment.

[PatsyMFagan]

Zosh has sent me some photos (of her hobbit house) as a slide show via email, but which uploaded into One Drive …. Is there a way of putting them on here ? I did try, but I suspect the file was too large ???

[aero280]

As far as I’m aware, you can only load pictures and YouTube videos.

I don’t know “onedrive”. If it’s an open access app, then you can post the link to it.

[aero280]

Just had a quick look. It seems that onedrive is a Microsoft thing you have to sign up to before you can view anything.

[scullion]

if you click on the photos doesn't it give you an option to download/save as?
if so you should then be able to resize them (i just use a custom resize option - much easier) that can be found in the photo manager - i assume you are using a pc rather than apple.

[PatsyMFagan]

thanks.... not sure I can re-size someone else's photos, but I will see if Zosh (or Mr Z) can do that ...

[aero280]

Once they are downloaded, they should be yours to do with as you wish.

[StokeySue]

It depends on how they have been linked into a slide show too, you can only resize them as individual picd

[northleedsbhoy]

It seems that I can post again . For a long time I've been getting a message saying 'General Error' 'SQL Error'. I emailed Lee via the link it gave but today it seems to have cleared. Anyone have any idea why I was getting that message?

Cheers
NLB

[suffolk]

No idea ... I've had no problems lately ... sometimes clearing your cache gets rid of that sort of problem ... glad to see you back anyway

[earthmaiden]

Perhaps Rio tweaked it!

[StokeySue]

The board does occasionally give the SQL error message when the server is having hiccups

However the message also appears if you write a post with a character in it SQL (the coding language) can’t read such as an emoji, so perhaps there’s a character on your keyboard it doesn’t like? I

[northleedsbhoy]

I tried various posts on different threads and even logged out a few times. I logged out again this morning and was able to post. I take your point about an emoji and as you know I always finish with so maybe it was that but heyho, it's working now.

Cheers
NLB