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Don't get discouraged. I agree tho, it is a PITA. I think the system was put together back when the bandwidth was small so pics need to go on another site and this one views through the pic sharing site. I believe it could be changed now tho, and would certainly make it easier to share photos while loading them onto this site. Sure they take up some space but rv.net is owned by a company that can make the bigger network space happen without hardly a blink of an eye.
So until that happens, keep trying.