Error posting images

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When I try to use the picture button to post an image, I get the "Error in Posting" message. If I try to preview the same, I get "Failure to Load Smilies."

If I type in the bb code, everything works fine. Pressing the button seems to cause the problem.

Windows Vista
IE 10

This is an old and annoying bug with the forum software and not related to the use of the picture button - I've never used that button but get hit regularly with the error anyway.
For some images, the error is somewhat random and persistence pays off - they can be successfully previewed and posted but for others, the only solution is to use another image or where possible, find another source for the same image.

The smilies error can appear even when there are none in a post - 'something' goes wrong in the background, while preparing the post, and that seems to be a pretty meaningless error the forum software coughs up as a result. I don't think I've ever seen this error unless I'm including an image in the post, though.
If, in desperation, the "Disable Smilies in this post" checkbox is checked, it's still hit and miss whether it will now succeed - it can sometimes work after doing this, but more often it simply fails with another error instead.

The best way to 'test the waters' is to click the "Preview" button, whether images are included or not.
Any problems likely to cause an "error in posting" failure when submitting will surface then, plus it's an ideal chance to spot those text formatting or spelling errors. Although... sometimes, despite successfully previewing a post, submitting it can still cause the "error in posting" message - but in those cases, retrying the submission normally succeeds.
When no images are included this error appears to be very rare, and I can't think of any case during my own postings when it has appeared that a single retry hasn't then succeeded.

But when images are included and a preview generates the smilies error, it is sometimes worth trying the preview a few more times and if it succeeds, submitting the image immediately will also usually succeed. But if the preview never succeeds... well, it's a case of not including the image or trying another one from a different source - and it is source-related in some way: I have never had this error when posting images sourced through Wikipedia, for example.

Will this bug be fixed?
Not in the current version of the forum software, I'm afraid - it is very old and no longer under active development.

Thanks, Cornflake. I always feel better when I have more information about a problem.