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Trouble uploading pics

Post by happyfriggincamper » Mon May 22, 2017 8:17 pm

Hey site admins,

I'm trying to put up a report {from my mobile) with some photos via the attachment tool, but I'm getting random results in doing so. Inconsistent upload success where I get advised that the photo exceeds the 5MiB size limit, yet all photos are well below.

Have tried closing the page, reopening, restarting a new topic and retrying the attachments - sometimes they upload, sometimes they don't and give the 5MiB limit message. Have even put the photos through a compressor app to reduce the size and keep getting the same inconsistent success.

Are there any known issues or is it likely with the user?

Cheers, Chris

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by meppstas » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:19 pm

Sorry I can't help you out there Chris, surely someone on the site may know.. maybe send a PM to one of the Mods or fishingvic itself.

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by Sinsemilla » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:36 pm

have you tried cropping the photo smaller on your phone?

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by Stewy » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:49 pm

Upload speed from mobiles can cause problems , easier to just email it to yourself and reduce it that way. Re-save the new pic.
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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by fishingvic » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:55 pm

As mentioned, try re-sizing the images so they are web-friendly. (ie: smaller in size)
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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by Toady king » Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:42 pm

I have this issue too. I crop them as much I can and it solves it for me

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by happyfriggincamper » Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:10 pm

Thanks all, got them up for my recent Yarra trout report. Had to reduce them twice to be under 1mb each via a phone app. Issue bypassed.

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by fishingvic » Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:58 am

Hi to all members,

I have just spent the good part of a whole day resizing all of the uploaded images on the forum.
We were very close to exceeding our web hosting Disk Usage limit!
I have implemented a new attachment setting where images and photos must now be smaller than 1MB in file size before being uploaded.
This is still quite large so there should be no problem uploading your photos and images as long as you resize your files first.
There are plenty of simple tools like phone apps and software online that enable quick image resizing.

This is necessary to keep the forum running smoothly and keep running costs to a minimum.

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by Fish-cador » Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:27 pm

That means no more sink shot for me.

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Re: Trouble uploading pics

Post by fishingvic » Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:29 pm

Fish-cador wrote:That means no more sink shot for me.
surely an IT guy like you knows how to resize photos :rofl:
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