Forum Problem w/ Attachments

[doktorstick]

Howdy. I was composing a post and had an attachment. I previewed the post and then clicked on the image. Not paying attention, I closed the picture... unfortunately, it didn't launch it in a new tab and instead clicked through like a normal URL link. This means that I lost my post that was in progress. However, the image still exists on the server and can be referenced:

http://www.austinreefclub.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=5745

I thought I would recover by re-composing my post from scratch and inserting an image URL with the above link. The forum rejected it because "that extension is not allowed". Ultimately, I simply linked to photo using an link URL instead of having the picture viewable in the thread.

I went under my profile and could not find the picture attachment anywhere. I went to the gallery (both the global and under my profile) and could not find the picture, either[1]. It still says I'm using 3.25MB of Unlimited... so it has associated that attachment with my account. By all accounts, it is lost, but is on the server.

Am I missing something (other than the attachment)?

[1] None of my pictures show up under gallery though, so I've got that going for me.

[+ACampbell]

The attachment is orphaned and will be cleaned out by the system by a bulk process at a later time. Gallery and attachments are independent of each other.

After you clicked on the attachment, you could have hit the back button and retained your post data.

[doktorstick]

Ok. I'll have to re-upload the attachment then since it will get culled.

After you clicked on the attachment, you could have hit the back button and retained your post data.

I recognize that. I closed the tab and couldn't do that.

Edited March 3, 2010 by doktorstick