Uploading problems

Fra · 24-08-2011, 21:23

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can advise me on this. Recently for some reason I can't upload pictures that are on my computer to the internet in the form of an attachment to an email or forum response. When I try to attach them it just says waiting for response or uploading, but never gets anywhere. Puzzled!

Retlaw · 24-08-2011, 21:41

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Originally Posted by Fra

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can advise me on this. Recently for some reason I can't upload pictures that are on my computer to the internet in the form of an attachment to an email or forum response. When I try to attach them it just says waiting for response or uploading, but never gets anywhere. Puzzled!

You could be trying to upload pictures that are to large.
Retlaw.

Fra · 25-08-2011, 05:39

These are from my mobile and tend to be only a couple of meg at the most

Less · 25-08-2011, 06:52

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Originally Posted by Fra

These are from my mobile and tend to be only a couple of meg at the most

Take a look:-

Neil · 25-08-2011, 08:44

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Originally Posted by Fra

These are from my mobile and tend to be only a couple of meg at the most

Are you using a web browser based email like hotmail? You say you cant upload to email or forums so it might be a problem with your browser.

Try doing it again with a different web browser.

Neil · 25-08-2011, 09:02

When you upload a picture on here you can see a progress counter showing the percentage done at the bottom of the upload window. It is shown in the first picture in the post. Then it says waiting. I think its waiting while it resizes your picture to an acceptable size automatically by the forum software.

The second picture was just a test. Its size on my computer is 3,477KB. It is now 603.4 KB after the forum resized it automatically. I have noticed it doing this with jpg files for a long time, I assume it does with other pictures as well but I have not tried it. Not sure which forum update added this functionality but I think it was the one which made the attachments appear in the middle of the screen. I think I remember having to resize pictures to post when I first joined the site though.

The other file sizes Less posted will be fixed as the forum software can't resize .doc .pdf files etc.

So you should not be having a problem uploading to here due to the file size.

Fra · 25-08-2011, 21:10

I was trying to upload on another forum which usually re-sizes automatically. I also tried on hotmail which allows 25mb

Neil · 25-08-2011, 21:19

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Originally Posted by Fra

I was trying to upload on another forum which usually re-sizes automatically. I also tried on hotmail which allows 25mb

What web browser do you use as in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox etc?

Fra · 26-08-2011, 18:52

I'm using firefox. Perhaps it needs updating? But I'm sure it gets updated when prompted