Why won't this display?

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Trying to get a brickwall jpg to display above my ancestor's (Hinkle-1032) Biography

{{Image | file = Brickwall.jpeg | caption = Help me break through this brickwall }}
in Photos by Living Magyar G2G6 Mach 2 (22.3k points)

1 Answer

+6 votes
Skip,

WikiTree does not recognize .jpeg as a valid file extension, even though it is the same file format as .jpg.  You need to rename your file, then upload it again, after which it should work.
by Gaile Connolly G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
I tried jpg first and it wouldn't display either.

Sorry - I'm still a pint low on caffeine.  I had not looked at your contributions to see the entry for when you uploaded the file.

I now see that the filename you used is not correct.  That is your name for the file on your computer.  WikiTree has its own system for naming image files and assigns a name to each file when you upload it.  WikiTree calls that file:    Hinkle-1032-2.jpg    If you use that for the filename, it should work fine.

Thank you so much for your help.
No problem, Skip - it's called paying forward - I have had more help here from 100 or more people than I could begin to thank them for!  I'm still a novice about genealogy research, but at least I can usually help with tekky stuff.

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