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Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« on: May 07, 2017, 12:56:32 PM »
I emailed a link to a post with attachments to a friend who is not a TRW member.  When he views that post, he cannot see attachments. Instead, for every photo (attachment) he instead of the image sees  [ Guests cannot view attachments ]  message.  Is this done on purpose?  If yes, that is kind of sucky as I can't show non-members any photos on TRW.

Update:  As non-member he cannot see the images using Browsers on Windows XP and Windows 7, but was able to see them on an iPad. Odd...
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Re: Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2017, 03:18:28 PM »
Not sucky for me! This saves me bandwidth and encourages folks to become members.

Hint: The gallery is visible to outsiders.

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Re: Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2017, 04:07:42 PM »
Not sucky for me! This saves me bandwidth and encourages folks to become members.

Hint: The gallery is visible to outsiders.

I see.  But if the the images are saved as attachments by the person who created the post, the non-members are SOL.
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Re: Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2017, 04:25:13 PM »
Some things are just worth the price of admission.  :D
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Re: Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2017, 05:19:22 PM »
Some things are just worth the price of admission.  :D

Not in every situation - my friend was interested in the Royal American Shows carnival photos. He is not all that interested in other TRW activities.
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Re: Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2017, 05:24:40 PM »
Silly question, but could you save them and email them to your friend?

It's actually pretty common for forum attachments to be visible to subscribers only. 
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Re: Guests cannot view attachments (photos)?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2017, 07:19:35 PM »
Silly question, but could you save them and email them to your friend?

It's actually pretty common for forum attachments to be visible to subscribers only.

Yes, I can, but that is an extra step I was hoping to avoid.  No big deal.
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