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    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

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Mike38

New member
Why is it when you post a picture on TFL, you can never post the same picture again? For example, 3 years ago I posted a picture of a new pistol I bought. Just recently I wanted to post the same picture in a different thread, but it wasn't allowed. Am I doing something wrong?
 
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Mike38

New member
Tried changing the title in my PC's picture gallery, didn't work.

I tried what MalH wrote, and it says "invalid file" when I try the upload from url.
Guess I don't know what I'm doing.
 
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eflyguy

New member
You don't upload again. You use the "insert image" button and use the URL of the pic from the first time you uploaded it, which you got from copying in the Attachments page as pointed out above.
 
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Mal H

Staff
Like eflyguy said, you only need the URL of the previous attachment then you insert the image in your new post. You can also do it manually by surrounding the URL with the
tags.

For example --
The URL for one of your old attachments is https://thefiringline.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=111530
I usually get the URL by right clicking on the image and select Copy Image Link. The exact wording and method may vary depending on the browser used.

Placing that in the IMG tag set gives you:
[IMG]https://thefiringline.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=111530[/IMG]

That will then display your old attachment in your new post:
attachment.php
 
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