Problem with Pinterest not loading
I am learning how to navigate Pinterest. Granted, I have signed up for an account years ago, but I have not been active. Now, I decided, it’s time. I am working on a new novel, and I like to post travels and places and foods that have inspired as I was writing the book, One Light Year Road Trip. I was enthusiastic about loading my pictures of Japanese Gardens that I have visited in autumn. Alas, just as I was loading the pictures, I ran into problems. Two problems I encountered, actually and that’s too many computer problems in a day.
The actual problems
One, the image that was loading was upside down. Second, when the image finally loaded, the thumbnail was not loading. I repeated the process with different pictures and the same problem shot at me. My photos were not showing. Googling the Internet community, I got lost in all the ways that Pinterest could be used for fun or business. I needed that education, but that didn’t solve my problem.
What to do? What to do? I will load this picture somehow.
I called my tech friend, and he asked me which browser I was using.
“newest version of Chrome,” I said.
He told me to try a different browser. Safari opened up on my desktop with no image viewing problems.
He started to troubleshoot the problems with me.
First things first, he initially thought that maybe Pinterest couldn’t read the pictures that I took with the non-iPhone camera. So, at his tech recommendation, (tech rec), I exported my photos to a folder to a desktop and then imported to Pinterest. Huuhh! Technology is supposed to make my life easier, not give me more work to do.
We tested out two different images from two different cameras and guess what I was still having problems in Chrome. The pictures were visible in Safari. Even the upside picture was correctly processed when viewing in Safari.
Moving on to next batch of testing, he told me to clear the cache in Chrome. He then said to do command R. Command Refresh, just swishes out all that nonsense.
Clearing the cache helped, at least load the image of “pond reflections.”
Few minutes, later, I loaded another picture. Guess what? The same problem cropped up using the chrome browser? What the heck?
My problem was not gone. It remained. In reaching out to the internet community again this time, with a more specific problem now, some people said that they were having the same issues. Others said, just to wait for a while.
Work Around for thumbnail not loading
After waiting and waiting, I had to develop a workaround. To my problem, there was no real solution, just a work around. The work around: I learned that I have to clear the cache in chrome every time I load a new picture so that no one else would see the empty blurring green space.
One example of the thumbnail not loading in Pinterest
It was green space because that picture was mostly trees and plants.
Since I am learning about Pinterest, I thought I would share this too. There is a secret button on Pinterest. If you toggle that button to on, I found that the images you loaded would not be revealed to the public. So, if you want your pictures to be seen, the secret should not be turned on.
There is so much to learn, and I am having fun, adding pictures to Pinterest.