I got brave and decided to test the waters and upload an image. I figure this will give me more information about receiving e-bots and about how the system is working.

Having followed the Forum threads and memorizing the pitfalls, I very carefully sized an image, made a thumbnail, made sure I checked all the appropriate boxes. I hit "preview," and saw my image with the accompanying text. Okay, the text shows up with no paragraph breaks, but it was there. I did an edit, saved changes, and saw that my image was there but my text edit hadn't updated. Hit edit again, pasted the text I had so cleverly copied before it was too late, saved, and saw my image with the new, edited text. That was somewhere around 6:07 PDT. It is now 6:27 PDT ... 20 minutes later ... and my picture isn't in the galleries. It isn't in my gallery. It isn't there when I go to the Photography Gallery and look at the first page. Where did it go?

And before you ask, Hope, I'm using the current IE browser. That's the same one my husband uses (he's bmac62) and he just posted a picture that took a while, but eventually appeared.

???

Oh. I purposely chose an image that I could add to one of my albums. My albums are accessible ... I can see them when I go to my album page, and even though there are no cover images at all, the images all appear to be there. So when I was posting my new picture, I tried to add it to the appropriate album, and there were no albums from which to choose. So I can now look at my albums, but can't add to them.

Update!! It's now 6:34 PDT, and I just checked again, and my picture has been posted. Something less than half an hour.

Wow.

Tara

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa