Thanks, Lenny, for responding. Please let me follow up on your points one at a time, and in no particular order...
* As I wrote, so far, and for quite a long time, I've not had a successful photo-share with anyone, and, as I use Trillian Basic as my default IM client, I already am logging out/in to YIM in order to even attempt the photo-share to begin with. * I do have a firewall (ZoneAlarm), but did not recall anything being blocked. If, indeed, something WAS flagged along the way, then it was from the firewall asking me to approve something, which of course I did. * I CAN chat with others via my YIM 9.0 client (and, if you wanted, would be happy to do so with you, too -- YIM:bramweiser) so, to my knowledge, it's only photo-sharing that doesn't work for me. * I don't know how to determine if something (a specific DLL, say) is either missing or buggy...in other words, if something IS missing or buggy, I wouldn't know how to locate it. * I thought the reformatting, etc., would have surely resolved this, but was surprised to see that, not only was it NOT resolved, but that the same issue remained even afterward, and at every point (as opposed to something else popping up, if anything had to). Did I miss anything? I hope not. :) So, you're basically saying to re-try an install (albeit following your blog post -- just checking, is the address correct?) as the intended "solution"? Is it odd that, over several versions of YIM installs, THIS continues to be the main issue I'm dealing with? Thanks again for your time and thoughts. Bram ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:57:34 AM EDT From: "LNVTM1 - Lenny Vasbinder" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Y!M] Pixellated or otherwise invisible pictures shared in YIM The transfer speed also depends on the other user's internet speed and last but not least on Yahoo Servers and how they are working. This issue happens to me on a regular basis also. I've found that photo-share will work with some friends/family and not others for a variety of reasons. If both folks have high-speed internet and photo-share isn't working, both users should sign out and then sign back in, to likely get into another server sector and then try. If it's still not working, try photo-share with one or more other people to see if it will work with them. Ask them if they are able to photo-share with anyone else. If they are, then it's not likely the Yahoo Server issue so then you can start looking at your own installation of YM. There are no easy fixes to a buggy installation of YM, the simplest thing to do is to uninstall YM, do a cleanup of your computer and then reinstall a FULL version of YM (NOT FROM YAHOO!). I have a blog article with details on how to do a clean install. http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-i-always-do-clean-instal-ofl-yahoo.html The article explains the BIG difference between doing a FULL version install from one of the 3rd party download sites, versus doing the Yahoo Installer download, which I find to cause most of the buggy installs. Last, but not least, make sure your firewall and other security programs are not blocking one or more parts of YM from properly installing. All it takes is for one of the thousands of .dll files to not install properly and YM will have glitches and bugs. This is another reason that the FULL download version works better than the Yahoo Installer version. Lenny Vasbinder http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bram Weiser Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] Pixellated or otherwise invisible pictures shared in YIM Hello, As a long-time lurker in Y!M, I've now gathered up the...courage? ;)...to write in with a request for advice and assistance, please, on an issue I've had with YIM for a long time. Ever since (I think it was) an 8.x version (or was it 7.x? Well, in any case, I now have 9.0 installed), I've been unable to truly share pictures with another user, whether it's my seeing their pictures or them seeing mine. At best, a picture comes through as pixellated...that's if it comes through as it should at all. (I should say that I have a DSL connection, so it shouldn't take TOO long -- maybe a couple of seconds, I'd presume -- for a picture to travel in either direction.) Now, I know some oft-given advice here involves a true deletion (wiping?) of the version on one's hard drive then re-installing YIM anew, but I'll note that, last year, I had to reformat my hard drive (don't ask :) ), and, even so, after reinstalling YIM onto my system, this issue remained, and continues to "haunt" me to this day. (I've tried to share pictures with various users, and am never successful regardless of whom I try to share with...at least so far.) I should also mention that I normally use Trillian Basic anyway for YIM conversations, but the inability of that application to share pictures is due to its "freeware" status, which is an entirely different kettle of fish...:) May I please ask for your thoughts, then? I'll hope to hear from some of you soon, if you feel like writing back. Thanks, Bram
