Having trouble attaching photos and viewing attached photos

[DetectorGuy]

Is anyone else having trouble viewing photos that were attached to threads the old fashioned way? Anyone having trouble attaching photos to threads the old fashioned way? I have been having trouble with both lately. It may be the "windows 8" operating system messing with me, but the  only photos I can view on here are the ones that people embedded. I don't know how to embed photos yet so if someone could tell me some hints and maybe I can embed them instead of attaching them. I resized the photos using the Windows Live Photo Gallery and made the JPEG's less than 1000KB each, but when I try to attach them, I get a message 'Cannot access attachments upload path'. I tried attaching these same images using several different computers with no luck. Is the issue in the simple machines software?