Any techies here? I need help!

[CTyankee]

I want to paste artwork off of a website onto an essay I am putting up or hope to put up here at DU. I always write my essay in My Documents but upload the art in folders in My Pictures using View image location and pasting that code for each image in the folder. But now alluva sudden I am unable to paste in the folder. It is shaded out.

I can't understand it. This process is what I've used for all my art essays here over the years. And now this. How can I get the paste function to work again?

[Bradical79]

1. Not sure

If paste is greyed out maybe the copy didn't work or you're trying to paste into a part of the screen you can't. Could also try the shortcut ctrl v for pasting if the context menu isn't co-operating.

[kentuck]

2. Are you using Firefox browser?

I've noticed with their latest update that some things do not work as they did before?

[Jim__]

3. Did you post this to Computer Help and Support?

It will stay visible in that folder for a longer time.

I'm not really a techie on Windows, but I could ask you a few questions. When you say you are unable to paste in the folder, are you taking an image from online, and trying to paste that image into you MyPictures folder offline? If that is what is not working, you could try right clicking on the image online and then select copy image location and then paste that code into your text. Or is that what you are already doing, and you can't paste the location's text into your text file?

[teach1st]

4. Jim_ beat me to it

You can't upload or link to pictures on your computer when you're posting to DU. Believe me, you don't want the world accessing your computer. The pics have to be online somewhere, which means accessible via a browser. You paste the web address of the picture in a post here, and the picture shows up.

[CTyankee]

5. Yes, I use tinypic.com to upload from my picture file on my pc to DU but I can't get the

image to paste into my folder in the first place.

[Go Vols]

6. can you drag and drop?

[CTyankee]

8. Noo it doesn't work that way.

It's a process I go through when I post my art essays. But I'm not getting to that part of the process. I find the imageand click on Save image location. Then I paste into a designated folder in My Pictures. When I want to put up an art essay I use the designated folder but what is happening is I can't use the paste functionality because it is shaded out. This system has worked so well even tho it is combersome.

[Jim__]

7. So the problem is happening offline?

Are you in Windows Explorer? Can you use Windows Explorer to drag and drop using your mouse?

Are you dropping directly into the MyPictures folder? Can you create a subfolder in MyPictures and copy into the subfolder?

[CTyankee]

9. see the above post that describes my process.

what I am doing is essentially getting the coding that I use with tinypic.com to put the image into my essay online. My essay is done separately in a file in My Documents. I just know where each image belongs in my essay. It usually works just fine. I don't know why the paste function is shaded out!

[Jim__]

13. Can you post the pictures to a different folder than MyPictures?

It sounds like either MyPictures is not allowing you to paste - I don't know why, but another folder may allow paste. Or, it may be that the Save function (Is this Save Image Location) online or offline - or it may be that paste is grayed out because windows thinks your clipboard is empty - I don't know why.

[CTyankee]

11. yes, this is the process I used to get the images that I will use in my essays.

I have been doing this for years here.

[teach1st]

10. When I paste a link from TinyPic, it works here

How are you composing your essays? Are you using a word processor such as MS Word and then copying and pasting them into a DU post? I don't get what you're trying to do when you say, "I can't get the image to paste into my folder in the first place."

Try pasting the code from TinyPic directly into a post here to see.

[CTyankee]

12. My essays are in My Documents. I "marry" the text with the image when I post the essay

online. But I can't get that far in the process if I can't grab the image off the internet and put it into a folder in My Piictures on my pc in the first place...because I can't use the paste functionality in my folder.

[teach1st]

14. OK. How do you grab the images usually?

I have never been able to copy an online image (right click, copy image) and then paste it into a folder in Windows (which I assume you're using). Most browsers do let you drag and drop an image into a folder.

[CTyankee]

16. No, my folders are in my pc.

[ananda]

15. This might or might not help but ...

I'll share it anyway. You could just write your essay in MS Word and paste the image location where the pics go. Here's an example.

"Of the romances of Eugène Sue and Dr. Croly, founded upon the legend, the less said the better. The original legend is so noble in its severe simplicity, that none but a master mind could develop it with any chance of success. Nor have the poetical attempts upon the story fared better. It was reserved for the pencil of Gustave Doré to treat it with the originality it merited, and in a series of woodcuts to produce at once a poem, a romance, and a chef-d'œuvre of art."

Gustav Dore -- The Wandering Jew

(Looks like this with jpg at the end instead of jp)

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/393d6153e68743159531737ff5b8870b/complaint-of-the-wandering-jew-illustration-by-gustave-dor-cw8mrn.jp

[CTyankee]

18. I think I understand what you are saying...I'll play with this and let you know...

just cut out the folder step. sometimes, however, when i do what you describe with my non essay posts the image location doesn't pop open when it's posted (sometimes it does, dunno why).

[canetoad]

17. Can't help with your paste greyed out problem

But a workaround with similar process is to:

1. Copy image location
2. Right click in your documents folder, select New, then Shortcut
3. A dialogue box appears with a box to type the location of item
4. Paste the image location

[CTyankee]

19. OK. will try. thanks!