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I cant upload my photos on the classified. Do they have to be a certain size
How do you verify the URL for the photo you have uploaded

Start off by looking in the forum support section, there are a number of post there. Next, without more information would be hard to help. What system, what is the problem, how are you trying to load and from where. Not everyone is working with the same system, between desk tops, phones, tablets, each may or is a little different.

Tony, the size is effectively unlimited (it is really big).

Are you posting from pictures on your computer? That's the best thing to do.

Chris

I have it fixed, but I had to reduce the size of the file. There was no message saying that though.

...I had to reduce the size of the file. There was no message saying that though.

That's surprising. On the very rare occasions when I get the dreaded yellow triangle, it's invariably because the system says my picture file is too big. I always reduce the size just a little, still more than big enough to fill the screen, and I get the green go-ahead.

MrTwT1915 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:03 pm

I cant upload my photos on the classified. Do they have to be a certain size
How do you verify the URL for the photo you have uploaded

They need to be equal to or less than 256KB. Also their is a restriction in the number of attachments that can be included in a single response. So if you have more than five submit the first group and then add a second repose to your post. You can also merge individual photos (cut n' paste) using something like Microsoft Paint - and submit that - it would only count as one attachment. Paint can also be used to reduce or enlarge the KB of a photo.

The following is from the phpBB on-line service manual - that's the software the MTFCA site uses
"Attachments are controlled by a set of restrictions, namely file size and file type.
File Size: The maximum file size for uploaded files is set by the Administrator. The default is 256KiB.
File Type: The types of files allowed for upload are restricted by their file extension. The allowed extensions are set by the Administrator.
For more information on changing attachment settings, please see ACP Attachment Settings.
Content © 2014 phpBB Group Licensed under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license"

The message I got in the yellow triangle said VERIFY YOUR URL. For most of us that means nothing.
Why did it not say your file is to big! Because that was the problem, or at least that's what fixed the problem!!

This is the attachment size setting.

20 MB

I am going to check a couple of other items.

Tony , where are the picture files?

They need to be equal to or less than 256KB.

Fortunately the website software resizes larger files automatically (most of the time) so I don't have to bother. This one is 1.5 MB. I don't miss the constant resizing I had to do on the old forum.

Chris as you seem to be looking into my issue i will list below some more info for you.

1. I took the photos on my android phone they were about 3.6mb
2. I sent myself an email with the photos attached.
I downloaded them from the email to my notebook.
3. I tried to upload them from the hard drive to my add . It has Windows 7 as OS
4. Thats when I got the yellow triangle, I clicked on it & it simple said I needed to verify the URL.
5. I then opened the photo up in Windows Office 2010
6. There I used the Compress Pictures option
7. I then selected Compress for Web pages
8. This reduced the file size to 45kb
9. I saved this file to the same directory.
10. This I was then able to upload the photo in my advert in the Classified Parts section.

Hope this helps to solve the mystery!

Photo test.

Windows 10
The site still does not automatically resize with this one exception. I always have to manually do that.

This is the only photo that I have not had to resize to load and it's the largest. My limit is about 350 KB and I must save files in gif format. I cannot explain why this photo is the exception out of hundreds that I've posted. It resized from 2.6 KB to 1.15 KB.

...I must save files in gif format.

What happens if it's a jpeg? That's how mine come from the camera and that's how I post them, almost always with no need to reduce the file size. My screen shots are in png format, and that works too.

This png screen shot was 2.1 MB. I didn't have to do anything to it.

I no longer post photos becuz I cannot. Have no clue why the software wont allow it. If it is an android issue or what?

If it is an android issue or what?

I suspect these posting problems may be a "mobile device" issue. Try it from a desktop computer and see what happens.

Hey buddy Steve. I send the photo from my droid to my computer. When I try to upload I get the same message. If I then resize it, it still will not upload. So I gave up.

I did read my thread above.

Well Steve they say junk in junk out!
Chris asked me to send him two of the photos from my phone, so he can take a further look.

But the way I fixed it was to reduce the size on my notebook & then upload them from it

Testing Tony's pics

Well what do you know, I get the same message as Tony.

Will keep looking.

Testing again

Pic1 after minimal crop, looks like it works.

Except picture shows as portrait here, but landscape when you click to larger image.

This if from a PHPbb forum

The problem in 3.2.1 is caused by an update of the used vendor library fast-image-size.

This library has changed the behaviour for JPEG. They force to use the EXIF header for determine the image size, if available.

https://github.com/marc1706/fast-image-size/issues/34
(Some images saved with newer versions of Photoshop no longer carry the JFIF data but only the EXIF data including EXIF IFD. As a result of that, image size info needs to be extracted from EXIF instead of the JFIF header.)

This causes, that images which have an EXIF entry of size 2800px and a physical size of 1024px are declined, because the EXIF size is used as master information.

Workaround is to strip the EXIF from the image before upload or rolling back the fast-image-size lib. I did a rollback of the lib and everything works fine with 3.2.1 for me.

I can see that the file that will NOT post has JFIF data when analyzed.

MrTwT1915 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:07 am

Chris as you seem to be looking into my issue i will list below some more info for you.
1. I took the photos on my android phone they were about 3.6mb[/size]
2. I sent myself an email with the photos attached.
I downloaded them from the email to my notebook.
3. I tried to upload them from the hard drive to my add . It has Windows 7 as OS
4. Thats when I got the yellow triangle, I clicked on it & it simple said I needed to verify the URL.
5. I then opened the photo up in Windows Office 2010
6. There I used the Compress Pictures option
7. I then selected Compress for Web pages
8. This reduced the file size to 45kb
9. I saved this file to the same directory.
10. This I was then able to upload the photo in my advert in the Classified Parts section.
Hope this helps to solve the mystery!

Need to retrace your steps
What "email" program are you using on your notebook and what was the file type of the he downloaded file to your notebook. Trying to understand why you needed to compress "web pages" - URL related
Is your notebook having Windows 7? You reported that you had the Yellow Triangle in step 3. And what do you mean by "to my add" ? ad?

understand why you needed to compress "web pages" - URL related

Compress FOR web pages, an option for the smallest size

Is your notebook having Windows 7?
Tony stated that above

You reported that you had the Yellow Triangle in step 3. And what do you mean by "to my add" ? ad?

He was posting a classified ad

ChrisB wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:13 pm

understand why you needed to compress "web pages" - URL related

Compress FOR web pages, an option for the smallest size

Is your notebook having Windows 7?
....

Android apps typically use images that are in one or more of the following file formats: PNG, JPG, and WebP.
So I'm trying to verify what the file format (extension) was when it was downloaded from his email and what it was stored at. The file extension WebP is not supported on the Forum. My guess is that results in the Yellow Triangle (could be another format as well). SO when Tony did a "Compress FOR Web Pages" I suspect that not only did he change the file size but changed the file extension form WebP to one that is supported, was saved as .jpeg
Make sense?

Test photo from my Nikon

Test phone from my Nikon

Test from my Nikon