no photo attachment method phone use

[DrUpcycler]

So I found that there is no way to attach a photo when using the forum on phone, which is madness as the photos are on the phone. It's taken me an age to transfer photos to PC. It was so simple in the older format both on phone and PC

I'm having to use my PC to even do this and attach a photo, because the below 'attachments' tab as you can see from the phone screengrab is absent or am I missing something?

Addition

When I start a post on phone and save it because I can't attach a photo it does not then appear on the PC version even though I've logged out and back in again

Kind regards

Edited September 6, 2022 by DrUpcycler

[Joe]

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So I found that there is no way to attach a photo when using the forum on phone, which is madness as the photos are on the phone. It's taken me an age to transfer photos to PC. It was so simple in the older format both on phone and PC

I'm having to use my PC to even do this and attach a photo, because the below 'attachments' tab as you can see from the phone screengrab is absent or am I missing something?

Kind regards

 

Hi,

I can't see your screenshot, but this is what it looks like on my phone once you press the Add Files button on the attachments tab. I've just uploaded this from my own phone.

 

Pressing the 'Camera' button will let you take a photo straight away and upload it, or the 'Files' button will let you find something you've already taken.

Could you let me know which brand and model number your phone is? I will look into it.

[DrUpcycler]

HI Joe

The screen shots are attached of my phone clearly showing no option to load a photo on this EDF format, had no problem for years loading a file on the older format. Phone is Nokia 7 plus

Thanks

PS just to note, the draft has now appeared on PC version after an hour of doing it on my phone. I have to say this is all very inconvenient. Enough to put one off using the site as it's very frustrating not being able to use a system which previously was very user friendly and clear for even the most IT uneducated to use like myself

Kind regards

[Joe]

I can see the problem.

Based on your screenshot, you have saved a draft, then you are accessing it via the Manage drafts section in the control panel. When you do this, there should be a Load Draft and View/Edit link next to the draft.

To load the message into the post editor, you have to press 'Load Draft' as shown below

 

 

The post editor is the same screen you see when you reply to a topic normally (without going through the draft screen). Here you can upload attachments.

 

However, In your screenshot, I can see that you've instead clicked the View/Edit button on the drafts screen. This is a screen which only lets you edit the raw text of the message. It doesn't let you do any formatting or attach images. Its just there to let you make a quick modification to a message you've saved. To be honest, I've never seen this View/Edit screen before - it does seem a little pointless and I'm not sure why you'd use it over the 'Load Draft'. Maybe I will look into removing this to avoid confusion.

But in summary - if you are using drafts, you need to use the Load Draft button.

If you are having problems uploading attachments from the post editor screen, then do let me know.