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How can I upload a picture using the URL ?

by Jun 21, 2014 8:42PM PDT

So, I just recently upgraded to 8.1, and I noticed something minor is missing, or I just can't figure it out.
When I was using Win7, I would occasionally use the URL of a picture to upload it to Facebook, instead of saving it to my computer and uploading it like that.
In Win8, there's no more familiar "file select" box, and nowhere to paste the url to the image !
Any solutions ? (Other than the obvious "save it to your harddrive which I don't want to do.)

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by Jun 21, 2014 8:51PM PDT

So, I found that I could choose "Network" instead of OneDrive or This PC, and I got a text box!
BUT
When I pasted the url, I get:
"There's a problem with the network path.
Make sure you entered it correctly."
I tried multiple different pictures, from different websites and got the same error every time.
Is all hope lost ? d:

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Re: upload to Facebook
by Kees_B Forum moderator Jun 21, 2014 9:00PM PDT

Uploading to Facebook isn't something you do in Windows. It's done in a browser or an app.
Windows 8.1 comes with 2 browsers (the app one and the desktop one) that are NOT the same. And, of course, on the desktop you can install Firefox and Google Chrome as alternative browsers. For the app (a Facebook app?), you're limited to what the app supports.

So the first question: which of those possibilities are you complaining of, and which of the other ones did you try already?

Personally, I don't mind so much to save a picture to my c:\temp folder, if necessary. I know that files left there are not important, do not need to be backed up and can be deleted once in a file without any objections. And with 500 GB still unused on my hard disk, I don't care at all about the file space used.
But it seems you feel otherwise.

Kees

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My wording was pretty bad on that lol...
by Trinnah Jun 21, 2014 9:33PM PDT

Basically, I'm getting this when what I want is this (I know, this is a screenie from Windows 7 but that's all I could find lol).
I was using Google Chrome, but I had it in "app/Windows 8 mode".
Switching to desktop mode seemed to fix it and give me what I wanted. (:
Thanks for the quick response for such a silly question. d:
I guess next time I should do a little more exploring.

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