Challenges uploading photos

[David Tallan]

So, I was trying to upload photos with a post today and it was really challenging. There were six photos, and on the first pass, only one uploaded properly. For the other five, I did see the progress bar get to 100%, but then the photos didn't convert from jpg to the forums new format, there was no image to see, and I couldn't insert them and could only delete them. I had to try four or five times with them to get them to voth upload and convert. I was on a 5G connection with 3/5 bars. Is this a known issue?

Here is a screen cap showing one that uploaded properly and one that wrapped out after a 100% upload.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I am totally a non-techie, but I always convert any picture I want to use on the forum to a screenshot first. It's a bit of a nuisance, but they seem to load much faster.
I'm sure Rick and maybe others will eventually weigh in with good advice.

 

[William Garza]

Its not just here..its across many portals that the uploading times and success rate are dismal.

 

[trecile]

I often resize my photos before I upload them.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I often resize my photos before I upload them.

As in you make them smaller?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I often resize my photos before I upload them.

As in you make them smaller?

I've discussed an easy way to make your photos smaller but still good for a computer screen display here:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...the-camino-sanabres.86404/page-2#post-1255998

Edit: The first two paragraphs say what to do. The third, long paragraph gives an example of file size savings. It is not that important so don't bother spending too much time on understanding it.

 

[trecile]

As in you make them smaller?

Yes, I make the file size smaller. I use the built in photo editor on my Samsung phone.

You can see that the original file size of this photo was huge. That will take forever to upload



And here it is after resizing

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I've discussed an easy way to make your photos smaller but still good for a computer screen display here:

I know you showed me Rick, but I was busy at the time and kept on with what I already was familiar with.

 

[ivar]

Hmm.. did you upload these photos at once or attaching one by one? They are converted on the phone before they are uploaded (at least I think so). Maybe the phone got stressed out?

 

[trecile]

Hmm.. did you upload these photos at once or attaching one by one? They are converted on the phone before they are uploaded (at least I think so). Maybe the phone got stressed out?

I don't understand how they can be converted on the phone before they are uploaded.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

It is about time for my brain cells to punch out for the day (I refuse to give them overtime pay) but I have found that Xenforo, the forum's software, does do at least some client side file conversion.

I have had problems similar to David's for years so I don't believe it was caused by the webp conversion. On the other hand, someone posted the following on the Xenforo website that seems to indicate that submitting photos via the Attach files button is the safer bet:

Client side resizing / conversion is severely less efficient if this issue isn't fixed as many users don't upload images via Attach files button but via Drag & Drop onto the editor or by using the Insert image toolbar icon​

https://xenforo.com/community/threa...nserted-via-toolbar-icon.220619/#post-1701013

 

[trecile]

I would like it if members would actually insert the photo, either thumbnail or full size after attaching it. In posts with lots of photos thumbnails are preferred.

Thumbnail


Full image


Attached but not inserted

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

The thumbnails look nicer. They are shrunk with the same ratio for both the horizontal and vertical sides. The attachments look distorted because the image is converted to be square. See @trecile's post above.

 

[Bert45]

I had a problem today. I could only attach one photo at a time, whereas I could attach several at once before. But the problem seemed to be at my end, as I could not highlight all the photos at once (by clicking Ctrl + a). But I had told my PC I wanted to attach photos, so perhaps it was communicating with the camino forum computer. I resize my photos to 1024 pixels or fewer so they go more quickly.

 

[Kathor1]

@David Tallan, you are uploading huge photo files - some of your recent uploads are 3.9 MB, 3.6 MB, 4.3 MB. I reduce my photos and screenshots to a file size of less than 800 KB before I upload them to the forum.

 

[Kathor1]

I don't understand how they can be converted on the phone before they are uploaded.

I don't understand that comment either. But I can convert my photos on the iPhone to a smaller size before I upload them to the forum.

I just checked: pick the photo you want to upload from the photo library; click on the Actual size button; four options to choose from, in this case: Small (61 KB), Medium (192 KB), Large (609 KB), and Actual Size (4,1 MB). I would pick Large. I am sure that every smartphone allows such a choice.

PS: See post #7 with instructions for the reduction of file size of photos on a Samsung phone.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

@David Tallan seems to have had no problem sending nearly ten photos at the end of some of his posts from Salamanca. He is probably in a very remote area on the Torres now. Maybe this has something to do with the photos not uploading. Mine have bogged down a few times on Caminos and I always assumed I was in an area with weak wifi farther from a city or cell tower.