images are downloaded instead of displayed in browser

[eloril 1]

Shared URLs are now forcing the browser to download the image instead of display them.

 

Example link: http://note.io/1JgwZbP

 

Network tab of browser shows: 

Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="skitch.png"

How can we get this fixed? the purpose of skitch is to show people images, not force them to download it. 

[DrewJ 0]

I came to this forum for first time today because I am having the same fustrating problem. Does anyone have an answer to this pleeeeease?

[rthrash 2]

This is indeed really frustrating. All png files are now downloading as attachments.

[kgg 75]

We expect to have this issue addressed soon. In the meantime, as a workaround, switching from the "Direct Image URL" to "Note URL" will prevent the image from downloading. 

 

Here's a screenshot of where you can make the change: https://www.evernote.com/l/AQfTXcI_1WhJYabHyBjPdE4Yffky5c7eVl4

[eloril 1]

Thanks kgg!

[rthrash 2]

This makes it hard to use Evernote now for creating technical documentation and screenshots because of this. Will this be fixed anytime soon?

 

The Note URLs are less than optimal because it results in a smaller, square cropped image when posting in things like Slack Channels, too.

[Alan Houser 6]

Images download in Firefox, but on Chrome and Safari they open in the browser window. 

 

1. It's a mime-type setting in the browser. 

2. If you're using Firefox, don't.

 

Under OPTIONS, when selecting "Direct Image URL", this is the type of URL you should be seeing:

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAu17ZOhEhFPUrTlriaff5I622RHxj7MJogB/image.png

[Slimjet 0]

Did this fix the issue?

 

I am using slimjet browser and faced the same problem.

[kgg 75]

Thanks for your patience while we worked on this. Direct image URLs displaying in the browser are no longer supported on Skitch. If you would like to have the image display in the browser please switch to the "Note URL" option as shown here: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s263/sh/d35dc23f-d568-4961-a6c7-c818cf744e18/7df932e5cede565e.

[eloril 1]

I don't even understand why you'd remove this. The webservers clearly support it as you can just load the note URL then click the image and you get the direct URL anyway. It's just forced advertising to make sure people know we're using skitch. But I use this for documentation, not to paste stuff to others. 

 

Such a shame, bye skitch. 

[rthrash 2]

Wow. Fantastic way to treat paying customers. Time to look for another solution and to cancel my premium account. I too used it for documentation and collaboration internally, and now you're really breaking the workflow by purposefully choosing a broken mime type for Evernote servers. Complete jerk move. 

[eloril 1]

Wow. Fantastic way to treat paying customers. Time to look for another solution and to cancel my premium account. I too used it for documentation and collaboration internally, and now you're really breaking the workflow by purposefully choosing a broken mime type for Evernote servers. Complete jerk move. 

 

https://puush.me/is working OK at the moment, although the screen select hotkey doesn't appear to automatically upload, i've contacted the developer. let me know what else you find. 

[Vinogradoff 1]

Thanks for your patience while we worked on this. Direct image URLs displaying in the browser are no longer supported on Skitch. If you would like to have the image display in the browser please switch to the "Note URL" option as shown here: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s263/sh/d35dc23f-d568-4961-a6c7-c818cf744e18/7df932e5cede565e.

Totally dislike. It's a pity, I liked and supported Skitch much from the beginning. Now it is just a tool from the list of mediocre screenshoters.

[MosesMoses 7]

Thanks for your patience while we worked on this. Direct image URLs displaying in the browser are no longer supported on Skitch. If you would like to have the image display in the browser please switch to the "Note URL" option as shown here: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s263/sh/d35dc23f-d568-4961-a6c7-c818cf744e18/7df932e5cede565e.

Thanks for posting this info, to remove this functionality is a bad choice by Evernote but one still needs to know that available services are being downgraded, 

[raistlinxw 0]

I've been struggling with this for most of a year, then finally found this thread.   Glad to finally have a resolution.    I'm leaving Skitch now in favor of Annotate for Mac.   A flat $2 and then it works with your own dropbox account.  

 

 

[eloril 1]

6 hours ago, raistlinxw said:

I've been struggling with this for most of a year, then finally found this thread.   Glad to finally have a resolution.    I'm leaving Skitch now in favor of Annotate for Mac.   A flat $2 and then it works with your own dropbox account.  

 

 

I just use  https://github.com/mileswd/mac2imgur now. It works great, straight to imgur, local storage in a folder you choose. 

[Ashant Chalasani 0]

Disappointing to see this feature be downgraded, and makes my Premium account worthless. I'm not going to renew, unfortunately paid a whole year in advance.

• Cannot use it in documentation in Image-URLs
• Being forced to promote Evernote brand using Note URL. I don't want to. I paid for Premium just to use the service, not to promote your brand.
• People I'm sharing URLs with are forced to download files. They hate me for it, for a stupid feature-tweak _you made!

Summary of alternatives other contributors posted:

1. mac2imgur
2. Annotate
3. Puush

 

[nblumoe 0]

This is indeed very annoying, clearly you are removing a useful feature for the sake of some additional promotion. Really disappointing move. 

[Ricardo Martins 0]

The reason behind this seems to be simple. They just want to avoid people using shared images in websites with huge amount of traffic and paying the bandwidth for them. Of course they'd have other ways to limit that, but...