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I hate Ipernity's Doc Manager. Please, don't get me wrong. I love Ipernity, but the Doc Manager is almost useless for me. What I want to know is, is this an isolated problem (something in my setup) or do other members have similar problems. Some of these problems go back to when I first joined ipernity a year ago and some have only cropped up recently.

Here are some of the problems I have been experiencing:

1. Doc Manager only works with Mozilla Firefox. This is not a big problem, just inconvenient. I normally use IE 6 for my Internet browser. I tried using Doc Manager with IE 6 and it just hangs.

2. When selecting images to post to groups, the set selected is kept only for one drop. If you want to move those same images to another group, you have to reselect the set. I have joined several groups of the same type and would like to post a set to more than 1 group. I cannot do this with Doc Manager.

3. When using the click and drag method of posting to a group, the screen will jump up or down wildly if you are not careful. If you overshoot the top of the frame it will shoot up several pages up or down if you touch the bottom of the group pane. I have not found any info on how to slow down this auto scroll up and down. Sometimes I have to move the cursor up and down several times to finally get to the pane/group I want.

4. Associated with the #3 problem is that sometimes while trying to get to the right pane with the group I want to post to, I accidentally drop my image or set into the wrong group. Then I have to open the group page and delete my images out.

5. If you drop images into a group that moderates the images you cannot remove them from the submission. The host looks at my post as a miss post and may mistakenly think I did it on purpose. I see this in groups I moderate content, where I see flowers being sent to my Sexy Girl's group.

6. Once you post an image to a group, a duplicate group banner is added to the group listing and changes the order of all the groups in the pane. I go to post another image and the group is no longer where it was after the last post. Now I have to go hunt for the new location or I drop it into the wrong group. This new "feature" has just started happening a couple months ago.

7. Doc manager will load all my images (over 5k) every time I start the program. Not a big problem, but if you hit "end" when trying to go to the next group of 10 by mistake, you will be sent down to the very first image I posted a year ago. I would love it if you could limit the images to be posted to a select group of different choices like, today's uploads or ones from a select album or those that have not been posted to a group before.

I am a heavy user of the Doc Manager and use it every day. It is so frustrating to use that I dread having to use it but there really is no alternative if you have many new posts to make every day. Sometimes I think they leave it this way to discourage postings to multiple groups.

Do you have similar problems using the doc Manager? Have you found solutions to some of the problems I have experienced? Do you have a problem that I have not listed? I would like to hear from other users of the Ipernity's Doc Manager. If enough members are having similar problems, maybe we could send this list to Ipernity management to see if they can improve this otherwise useful feature.

Gee Dub