I took a bunch of pictures on my digital camera for work. I need to get them onto the work system. My card-reader is at home and is not really portable, nor do I want to take it to work. Even if I did, it would be more trouble than it is worth as I can’t install anything, not even a card-reader, without a half hour interaction with the Help Desk.
I can e-mail the pics, 5 or 6 at a time, sure. What I want to know is - is there a way for me to “share” these pics, in their full quality, without compromising the security of my computer in any way? I have a photobucket account, and a couple others but they all reduce the quality of the pics and it’s just not the same thing.
It’s not the end of the world if I can’t. E-mail is totally viable. It just seems silly that that’s the only way.
Some photo sites will let everyone download the full-res pictures. I use Smugmug, but another site might be better nowadays. It costs $25 / year, IIRC.
Couldn’t you just dump the pictures into your home computer (since that’s where the card reader is) and then copy them to a flash drive. Plug the flash drive into a USB port at work and you’re in business. Or is running a flash drive too much of an install for your tech support guys?
Yes…again, everything I have to install/add I have to go through the tech guys. Which basically means half an hour. I kid you not. I had to get a setting changed on my taskbar - it was stacking similar items - and it took ten minutes on the phone. We are allowed to do NOTHING.
Plus our computers are really old and the USB ports are all old and in the backs of the computers. Not that that’s really a problem, just another annoyance, you know.
SO has a CD burner on his computer. I don’t. I could go use his computer, I suppose, except…
We can’t read CDs at work. Nope, none of them.
And I have to admit, I am a Doper that leaves home without my flash drive all the time. Matter of fact, I don’t even technically own one. SO bought one that we both use, and he never leaves home without it. I think he’d fit in great around here, actually, 'cept I found it first and he’s not a message board person anyway.
:eek: :eek: :eek: Anaamika,I am stunned by this. Does no one have the ability to read CDs, or do the tech guys just keep this ability from the peons? How do they install software?
What would happen if you handed a CD to one of the “tech guys” and said, “Could you possibly put these pictures on a network drive?”
I don’t know anything about the politcs of your office, but it seems like this would be “technically” possible, but maybe not “politically” possible.
If none of these suggestions work, you may have to go the email route.
:hugs FBG: You don’t know how happy I am to hear you are stunned! I think I have a legitimate complaint in this, but everyone says “Oh, you should just suck it up. I’ve worked in IT and users mess everything up. Why when I was in school I hiked uphill both ways in the snow to school and liked it, goddamnit!”
No one in the offices has the ability to read CDs. We are on Citrix, and even our keystrokes go through the National Office. When they need to install something, they just install it onto Citrix or maybe one of our servers and then have us upgrade our version of Citrix if need be.
They are in White Plains and we are in Albany, so I’d have to mail it.
You probably have a few megs of online storage space provided by your ISP. Nearly all ISPs do this, and most people don’t take advantage of it.
Load the pictures on your computer at home and FTP them up to your free storage space. Then you can just download them from that URL to your work computer.
I’m still not sure what your ultimate goal is. Share them with whom? Do you want to e-mail them from your work computer? Why do you need to that if you can e-mail them from home to your work computer?
I think the objective is to email them to work, then copy them from the email to a network drive for sharing about (by emailing a link, presumably only to other people on the LAN, who can access it).
Or maybe I’m wrong, in which case… it’s scary… the last person who sent me all of their holiday snaps at full resolution as email attachments is now buried under my patio.
Yes, exactly. I don’t want to send all of the pics to one person! It’s like this - we had a Walk event, and we took pictures of each team. So we’d like to e-mail the top teams at least and say “Thanks for coming to Walk! Enclosed is a photo of your team” so they can distribute it around their office, etc. I was hoping there would be some way to get it directly onto our Share Drive. At work we have a Graphics Access Site but tho I have permissions to get our pics/logos off of it, I have no access to put pics onto it. Something like that was what I was hoping for.
Anyway, I have just now cued them all up to e-mail, so no problemo. Thanks guys!
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