Maybe creating a poll on the issue? For example, questions like:

What time of day does this seem to happen?

How many members are on line here when this happens?

How often are the images corrupted in one visiting session?

Do you get the corruption while visiting a galley here or in coming to the gallery from an e mail notice or both?

Do you use a private or free e mail service for your favorite artist's e mail notices?

What OS and browser do you use?

Do you have a strong firewall setting in place?

When this happens what do you do to resolve it?

Just some ideas and I talked to my computer tech hubby about this, and he feels that it is a bandwidth thing...when you think about it, with all the events of our community, the store and the galleries here are (it seems to me) becomming even MORE used, populated, visited than EVER before. Soooo many folks are probably downloading images to view at one time.... I know I USE the gallery to discover marketplace items, so while I am visiting some of my MANY "favorite artists" I am also running to check on a product many times... Then I visit the forums a bit...that sure must be a lot of bandwidth traffic for the site?!

I have two firewalls, a hardwire one and a software one, both set fairly high, but this does not bother ANY other gallery web site I visit, or even pictures on any other kind of site....

I have a high end machine with a gig of ram, and I keep my temp, cookies AND other harder to find temp files and history files cleaned out daily.

I do most of my "favorite artist" gallery visits in the evening here on the west coast of the USA. There are AT LEAST 2000 + members on line at this time.

I might see 2 or 3 images okay and then they corrupt, and after that, unless I close all browser windows, and re-open ONLY renderosity with no e mail window open, the images will keep corrupting. OH and at first it was just one here and there, and now it is more and more are downloading either pixilated or with color bands or strips.

I noticed this SUDDENLY happening about two weeks ago now... was anything changed "behind the scenes" in the coding or something?

Lyne PS I have IE6, with all proper settings to allow images etc. and use win2kpro sr4, large hard drive too!

Message edited on: 02/23/2005 17:34

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