lisa
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Post by lisa on May 29, 2020 7:20:37 GMT
Hi there,
I have an experiment with a lot of images that takes very long to load. So as suggested in the documentation, I would like to upload the pictures to a cloud and access them from there for quicker loading times. The documentation suggests dropbox but unfortunately as of a couple years, dropbox does not allow public access in free accounts anymore.
Google clouds only allow embedding directly either with a watermark or very complicatedly.
So I was wondering if anyone has dealt with the same problem and could recommend me a free cloud storage service that allows/support public access i.e. embedding.
Thanks in advance,
Lisa
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Post by PsyToolkit on May 29, 2020 11:32:38 GMT
Google is not bad and quite easy to use, but you need to make sure you format the URL correctly.
1) Upload your image on Google drive
2) Share it so that anyone with the link can get the file
3) Get the ID of the image. This is the long letter number combination in the URL of your drive
For example, you might see somthing like this, in that case, you get the long string (this one I made up)
4) Now the link is (color coding for clarity only, of course): drive.google.com/uc?id=1ipBgXwgfBT4ONf4K3WCU8okkyEfBuc9O
That is it. This is a good question which I will add to the FAQ.
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mab
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Post by mab on Oct 23, 2020 16:49:20 GMT
Hello,
I have also encountered the same issue, but when I try to format the URL as listed above, I get the following error when I try to compile my experiment:
ERROR: forbidden_name
I thought at first this might be because of the minus sign generated by Google drive in one of the URLs, and so I tested out whether it would work when I removed that item. This resulted in the same error. Could this be caused by the "uc?id=" part of the URL?
Thank you!
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Post by alexandra (AEC) on Oct 23, 2020 18:30:45 GMT
Random thought on the side - have you checked your bitmap names in your code, if they start with a number or a symbol? If this should be the case, try changing those into starting with a letter.
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mab
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Post by mab on Oct 23, 2020 18:55:19 GMT
Yes, all bitmap names start with a letter.
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Post by alexandra (AEC) on Oct 26, 2020 9:47:25 GMT
I am afraid I have no idea what could be the problem.
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Post by PsyToolkit on Oct 26, 2020 9:58:59 GMT
Can you please send an email to psytoolkit@gmx.com with the name of your experiment and your username and a reference to this thread on the forum, then I can help you.
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mab
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Post by mab on Oct 29, 2020 20:12:55 GMT
Update: I realized I was not including the "https:" at the beginning of the URL (as in the sample above). Adding this fixed the problem.
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Post by buddiedelorenzo on Apr 26, 2022 15:03:50 GMT
This is why I don't put the important data on cloud services without creating duplicating the information. If you want to be sure that you didn't lose the data, you should put this data on the physical portable hard disks if you don't have enough place on your personal computer. Don't forget you can always use the flash drive as an alternative, especially since you can easily recover the required data from the flash drive by using the flash drive recovery service. |
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