# Rails + Paperclip + IE: pictures disappear!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 22, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359 "2010-09-22T07:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneadiving)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359/1 "2010-09-22T07:35:03Z")

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Hi,

I’m a bit confused with the problem I discovered:  
Some of the pictures I upload aren’t displayed on IE. Some of them are  
ok, some of them aren’t. Yet, they are the same kind of pics and they  
are side by side…

Everything works fine in chrome, safari and firefox.  
The example is here: [http://phdtalent.com/](http://phdtalent.com/) (look at the footer)

If someone has an explanation, I’m eager to read 🙂

Thanks in adance!

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**Author:** ![apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneadiving)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359/2 "2010-09-22T13:21:02Z")

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try removing all the styling and see if the images are visible. Other  
than a  
possible problem with styling the only thing i notice was that bandwidth  
appear to be low and IE is so crappy it could be timing out. if that is  
the  
case use javascript to delay the loading of the big flash in the middle  
.

by the way nice site! =D

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**Author:** ![apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneadiving)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359/3 "2010-09-22T23:32:22Z")

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Hi Radhames,

Thanks for your advice, I’ll try this once I’ve a PC available, but  
I’m not sure this is the perfect track: the same pics are always  
missing.

I tried to access these with their URL without success, or more  
precisely IE displays a cross. If ever I enter a bad URL (trying to  
access a non existing pic) IE displays an error page, a completely  
different behaviour…

So I’m stil lost!

By the way, we sure agree IE is crappy 😉

Ben

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**Author:** ![apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneadiving)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359/4 "2010-09-23T23:17:13Z")

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I’ve found the pb…

IE is definitely crappy…

the pictures with problems weren’t encoded in RGB (despite the jpg  
extension)…

Thanks to GIMP, I converted it, everything is fine now!

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**Author:** ![apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@apneadiving](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneadiving)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-paperclip-ie-pictures-disappear/195359/5 "2010-09-23T23:19:34Z")

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I’ve found the pb…

IE is definitely crappy…

the pictures with problems weren’t encoded in RGB (despite the jpg  
extension)…

Thanks to GIMP, I converted it, everything is fine now!