question re bumping / reposting a for-sale post

Yes, you can do this, however you must copy the html code from the post, not just the text and images. You do that by editing your original post and clicking on the <> icon in the formatting bar. That will open the html code editor. Copy ALL the code in that window to the clipboard. Then…

• Start your new post
• Click on the <> icon again to open the html code editor.
• Paste the html code you just copied into the new post.
  That will bring everything into the new post, including the code which points to the location of whatever images you had in your original post.
• Save and post the new listing.
• Delete the old post.

Done.

Tried that.  It looked like it worked, but it didn't.  It looked to me like everything was there, but I received a PM from another forum member that the pics were missing.  Had to re-attach everything.  Pics didn't move - they were stored in the same location as when I posted originally.

I have to wonder if the pictures don't get nuked when you delete the original post.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I have to wonder if the pictures don't get nuked when you delete the original post.

Interesting thought.  The pics continued to be visible to me, but not to others.  And I already know what the items look like!

Might be cached in your computer, try clearing your browser cache and then see if they're still there.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Might be cached in your computer, try clearing your browser cache and then see if they're still there.

Good thought.  Unfortunately it's a moot point as I re-attached all of them.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I have to wonder if the pictures don't get nuked when you delete the original post.

I was worried about this as well.  I used Rich's suggestion recently not only to re-post a FS listing, but I merged 2 listings together.  (Don't try this at home if you can't read HTML code.)

But as GRJ pointed out, it is not clear if the image that is being referenced gets deleted.  I wasn't willing to risk all my uploaded pictures to find out, so I left alone the original post.

Bob