Finface's M1 Carbine Photo Gallery

Thanks to all for your replies to my various "newbie" posts and questions.  A lot more to learn, and perhaps this thread can serve as an exploration of my carbine's origins and attributes.  I welcome all comments and thoughts.  I'm going to try to post 9 photos of the rifle now, each a little different perspective.  If these post okay then later I will upload closeups of the rifle's identifying features. Hopefully this will be a fun exercise for you.  I know it will be educational for me.

Finface

"uploads/7831/_Serial_5051728_#1.jpeg", is what's showing, with "uploads/7831/ pre-populated before

I try and upload, and then after trying to "upload" it adds "_Serial_5051728_#1.jpeg", which is what I labeled the photo (without the underlines - it added those to my label.

Oh, well, time to watch some golf on TV.

Are these the pictures you are trying to upload?

Are you going to your file cabinet to upload and then post, or uploading while making the post in the post box?

Thank you for the detailed reply, New2Brass. I'll respond to your suggestions in this reply instead of just trying them (maybe others can follow what happened and avoid it for themselves) - and try again.

Did I successfully uploaded those three pictures above, or did you (or some other helpful moderator?) upload them after I emailed them to you? I know I uploaded some photos.  I didn't have the problems I'm having now by doing the trick of taking iPhone photos from my Apple Photos app and emailing them to myself. To get around the individual photo size restriction of this forum I selected "Large", instead of "Original". This step, and maybe cropping them, reduced each photo's size down from over 2 MB photo resolution of my iPhone to just under 400KB (397KB - I guess I got lucky there!). The forum's upload process then had no problem. I read your link below and see in a post that in 2016 the forum's photo size limit was 400KB. Is it still 400KB? I had cropped the original photos down to magnify detail, and I'm guessing that step helped reduce the photo's file sizes below 400KB. The 9 new photos I want to upload (first step, photos of the entire rifle, magnified/cropped photos of parts like above to follow) after emailing as "Large" are more like 500KB. I will try and crop them further to get 'em below 400KB if that is still a limitation.  So right there may be why they didn't upload.

"Fin, please do not delete photos that are used in a previous post, this makes that thread useless for the next new guy looking for information."

Roger no deleting.  I did try last night a couple of times by highlighting the old photos (the ones above) and commanding "command, delete", thinking there was some kind of limitation or cache that was stopping me.  I don't think I actually deleted any of them.  It didn't look like that happened.

"how to upload pictures 

https://www.uscarbinecal30.com/Forum/pictures-tips-sizing-and-posting-avatars_topic1083.html"

"Common problems uploading. Uploading pictures can take over ten time as it takes to download a picture. This is not the forum (for the most part) it is how the internet servers works. When you request an upload and think nothing is happening and click upload again, it adds the same image to the upload queue. The forum sees the same name and adds the date and time to the file name."

I have high speed fiber optic internet and a new Apple computer. I'll keep "uploading takes longer than downloading" in mind and be patient. With the above successfully uploaded photos, once I got them resized it didn't take much time to see them accepted as a "preview", and then be able to post them. I'll be patient, and keep in mind what you say below about this new phenomenon of servers getting overwhelmed by massive AI searches.

"The forum does not handle empty spaces and some characters in a file name. The hash tag may be the problem. Low score (underline) is appropriate if you want to separate words. Starting with a low score may be an issue."

Good to know, Thx! I found my email of January 19th to myself (two of the same above photos were in that email to myself) and see that I did not rename those photos. IMG_0971.jpeg and IMG_0972.jpeg is what they were labeled by my computer, and without checking right now probably what they are labeled in the File Manager window (where I tried to delete). Not descriptive of the photo content so last night I tried some plain language changes to keep track of/describe the new photos. I will remove those probable bad actor characters, while still trying to label the photos as what they are, and try again.

"New issues with forum uploads and the reasons for errors, with the advent of AI our forum is being bombarded with search and index engines. This has been logged at over 2 million hits a day!

When too many are one the forum at once it exceeds the forum bandwidth. When this happens an error message will generate. We recently added HTTPS protocol which has features to suppress the searches. This has increased the costs to the club and the jury is still out on just how well it is working."

I'll take your word for it!

"Another issue is getting false malicious codes in pictures. We have found for the most part if you just wait and try again, sometimes more than once, it will upload. If anyone has persistent issues with a specific picture they want uploaded, please contact me and I can fix and get uploaded. This in part may be now when you edit a picture, the program may be adding meta data to an image to identify that it was altered."

Thank you for the generous offer of your time!

Finface

Ruth mentions Inland getting Underwood complete and Rear Flip Sight Parts in early 1944.

Appears, As mentioned before that Finfaces Adj sight may have been installed on a different carbine at one time, because of the Punch marks on it and NO sign of those extending on to the Dovetails of his receiver. 

Looks to me that way...

Charlie-P777

I cropped down the photos and now the "get info" feature of my Mac says they are all under 400KB.  I labeled them with only numbers and letters, with no underscores, and the file ".jpeg" at the end of my label I never even highlighted while renaming.

Now I can see part of the photo after clicking on "upload".  Curiously the KB value seems to be about half of what "get info" says once the photo is displayed in the File Manager box.  The photo does show in the preview box, and it has sliders up and sideways so only part of the photo is visible at one time.

When I click on okay I get this pop up message - "Error uploading file!!.

The file limit is 500KB and states so on the lower left of the box you use to upload pictures.

I have a I-phone, but a regular PC. it seems I have issues when I send photos to my computer to alter and upload. I am thinking the Iphone may have code built in for the moving "live" pictures or maybe for the native HEIC pictures that I cannot open on my computer?

But knowing who is having issues on what devices might help narrow down the area the forum vendor can look at. 

I will send you an email for where to send photos and I will get them installed in your file space.

So first these photos of the whole rifle, slightly different angles.  I printed a copy of the Data Sheet and will follow along with those of you who might want to also do that - and tell me what boxes to check.  I know it won't be definitive without actual physical inspection, but hopefully with your help the authenticity (or lack thereof) of this carbine can be established with some high degree of confidence.

No hurry on this process, either.  For each topic area two or three weeks before another topic.  Then should I ask to have another group of photos posted that are part specific?  Or location specific?  Or maybe function specific?  However addressed it will be fun to fill out a Data Sheet with help.

So first...from the photos of the whole rifle...perhaps some general comments on the appearance of the rifle?