Originally Posted by: ClassyAnn___Tema Does size count ? if I go into my fav club on my laptop that has an 8 Gg memory its all messed up with PB signs everywhere.. If I go into the same club on my desktop that has 16GB memory 99% of it is fine except for a few sponsers adds ! Im not techy minded,, but can somebody please explain how this is ?
Hey Ann. There are couple of ways an image link can be set in the prop, 'per session', 'never' and 'forever'. When an item is set to per session, every time a user enters that property, no matter how many times, it forces the image to be loaded fresh from the host server. If it is set to forever, you visit the first time and it then stores and keeps the image on your hard drive and each subsequent time that computer enters the room, it gets the image from the computer you are using, not from the image server over the internet.
It sounds like the image links are set to 'forever' (except the sponsor ads which are probably set to 'per session' ) and your desktop had already been there before the account was affected and now has the files to grab when you go there, but the laptop had not been there before and tried to grab them from the server which is now refusing to send the image and sending the error image instead, their system knows when a third party site is trying to load it apparently. So one computer can potentially display a room fine even when the links no longer work as they are getting the images from their own hard drive, while another computer which has not been there yet can see it all screwed up. It is nothing to do with your system memory, it is all about the link and what Photobucket has done at their end with it. Images are still there btw, and if you enter the URL from the prop into a browser you can view and save the image, rehost somewhere else, and replace the old link with the new one and get the image texture back again as it was before.
*Edit* ... and yea, as said in the post above, it will only display fine on a broken room while the cache is still intact, once you do a repair (which clears you cached files) the computer which showed it fine will also then show the errors too, as it wipes the cache in the process.