Re: How to upload ? (IE 6.0 SP1)

To upload documents, go to your URL - http://groups.msn.com/<groupname>, in the left menu click on Documents, the at the top under the Documents heading, click Add File. You'll be taken to a new page where you'll be required to download and install an ActiveX control to go any further. You'll note the Info Bar pop-up warning you about this - click on the Info Bar and then choose Install ActiveX control. A security warning box will come up, click Install. The ActiveX control will bring up a Windows Explorer view of your computer where you can navigate to the document you want to upload. Check the box next to the file you want to upload, then click the Upload Now button at the top.

I see no other way of uploading documents without accepting this ActiveX control.

As for photos, when you first create a group and click on Pictures in the right menu, then click on Add Photos, you'll be taken to a page where you are offered to install the MSN Photo Upload Control - and that page has more info on it about the control, and an "Install" button - no automatic download of the control is offered and no Info Bar pops-up. Click on the "Add one photo at a time" link under "Do I have to install this control?" section and you'll be taken to a link like this:
http://groups.msn.com/<username>/shoebox.msnw?action=ReqAddPhotoDownlevel
There you'll be able to click the "Browse" button which will pop up a file "Save As.." like box where you can then navigate to the picture you want, click to select, enter any other info, select a size, then click the "Add Photo link at the bottom. If you cannot get past the page where they are trying to force you to download the ActiveX control, use the URL above - note the difference in the action= bit at the end.

BTW, I've found the groups.msn.com domain works better and faster than the www.msnusers.com one, although I see the URLs switch back and forth at times, even when you are using that site. Must be some sort of bandwidth or server balancing going on.
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Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
jkennedy2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Nick" <Nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C09262D4-0749-42CA-8490-E891A9591BA3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jon, thanks for your response. First, I am talking exclusively about
documents. Second, yes, I had already read the help which you have
thoughtfully copied into your post (thanks) and I had chosen *not* to
download more software. Third, I've looked at the page
http://www.msnusers.com/MyStorage.msnw?comm=hgq0p3dfjn4a0j7jub3k8i1v14&type=files
again today and I see a "File Deletion Tool" on the page but I do not see any
indication of any way to add or upload files. You wrote "Adding photos or
documents to MSN Groups online storage is done through their web interface"
What is this "web interface"? Is it Internet Exporer? The OLH says "...you
can still upload photos and files individually using your browser's standard
upload tools." What are these "standard upload tools"? How or where do I
find them? I have looked and haven't seen hide nor hair of them. What am I
doing wrong?


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