I tried that and my had cyber literate wife try, "getting the image is too big for the server", even tried cropping it down.
@Michael ,
The photo would have to be "resized." That basically means you are loweirng the quality of the photo, by removing "bits." It looks good smal, but if you blew it up, it would be all "pixelly" and horrid -looking. Cropping just cuts pieces off, but leaves the "quality" alone, so the file is still too big. Think of the new, "resized" image as if it were a van Gohg painting - looks like it has lots of detail from across the room, but if you get close, you see all the "dots" and can't make out detail.
There is free software out there to do that with. It's easy, but the Mrs. may have to run you through it once and you'd be set.
This is the one I use (there are others):
Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps - 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize!
www.fotosizer.com
This will create a "smaller"
copy of your photo (and keeps the original too) that will work when posting on a forum.
To use the "attach files" feature, you do as originally instructed, but you double-click on the new, smaller copy of your photo. It seems like a pain in the butt the first time, but after doing it a few times, it's pretty quick.
I you're not too averse to trying an image-hosting site (after the Photo-Bucket debacle), Mr. Taffin suggested this one on another site:
Provides free image upload and hosting integration for forums. Free picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs.
postimages.org
Betting your wife could walk you through it once and you'd be set. The neat thing is that it offers several "formats" to post appropriately sized images for your needs. One of them is specifically thumbnails for forums" (or something like that. You click on that, "copy," and then "paste" right in your reply on the forum. Using this method, you don't have to use the "attach files" feature, but is more complicated (not a lot), but leaves your favorite photos available on the site to re-use on another forum or again here, or wherever.