When you select 'upload photos' you are no longer presented with the option to select the photo's to upload. I'm presented with the screen showing the button to upload the photo's but nothing that allows the identification or selection of which photos. Hope that makes sense . . . .
Rick
If I may ask... Are you certain you are not possibly confusing the
Attachment Manager or
Insert Image button (which also goes through the Attachment Manager in the background) with either our long standing
Photo Gallery (accessible from the
Gallery tab on the main menu bar, from where such photos may then be uploaded) or with the Attachment Manager interface proper (which is accessible from the
paper clip icon on the right-hand side of the top row when using the
Advanced Editor, but
not while in the Quick Reply Editor)?
There are multiple ways to upload photos to the site and then insert or attach them to posts. The original, and oldest, means is via our
Photo Gallery by navigating to the "
Gallery" section on the main menu bar. You may then upload images to your personal gallery from within that area then later insert them into your posts via the "
My Photos" button (looks like a
camera resting in a hand) or by copying and pasting the relevant BBcode directly from the Gallery viewing area when viewing a single photo (the box that displays the possible URLs and BBcode is usually off to the lower right-hand side of the page when viewing a single image in the Gallery). But the "
My Photos" button is the simplest way to drop Gallery photos directly into your posts.
You can simultaneously upload and attach new photos via the "
Insert Image" button and they will be both inserted into your post and uploaded into your Attachment Manager. This, however, does not place photos into your Photo Gallery as that feature is entirely separate from the Attachments Manager as they ate two completely different storage areas with very different capabilities and means of use.
And, finally, there is the
Attachment Manager interface proper, which is accessible from the
Advanced Editor (if in the Quick Reply Editor then click the "
Go Advanced" button below the textbox). While in the Advanced Editor interface you click the
paper clip icon on the far right-hand of the top row to open the Attachment Manager interface in a popup window. From here you may either upload new photos to add to your post or select from existing Attachment assets that you wish to insert (though this last option, selecting existing assets, does not function on iOS mobile devices). Then click the "
Insert Inline" button at the top to complete inserting the new photos in your post and making them visible inline (and not just as appended links).
Many find the
Attachment Manager and the
Insert Photo buttons to be the quickest and easiest way to insert new photos into their posts, particularly when they need to simultaneously upload the new photos while editing their post. However, Attachment photos may only be viewed from within the thread they were originally inserted into. There is no way for other members to browse the contents of your Attachment Manager assets except in those original posts and threads...unlike with the older
Photo Gallery option where your photos may be viewed at any time by any visitor who wished to browse your collection. That is why the
Photo Gallery is likely to remain for the foreseeable future (or as long as its codebase is supported) as it is a wonderful site asset and many of us enjoy it even today.
So there are a number of ways to go about uploading and inserting photos into one's posts. Use whichever feature best serves your needs or goals at the time, each has its own pros and cons and tradeoffs versus benefits.
