[Solved]: Batch Upload - Broken Images

[AaronNance]

www.TheNance.com/PhotoGallery
Username: tester
Password: test

Copermine 1.4.25
Windows Hosting thru GoDaddy.com


When setting up my new gallery I've been able to use the Batch Upload to import a couple of albums/directories (I started with the oldest photos, not sure if that's relevant). But after doing a couple of albums, everything else I try to Batch Upload gets a broken image link on the image selection page. If I select the images and attempt to import them anyways it runs through the process, but gives me a broken image for the Result and the album remains empty.

Sometimes the list of directories that I can choose to import gets a timeout error and only shows some of the list. I have to turn the browsing option to No, as the default option tells me there are no albums in my albums directory.

Other bits of information... I'm using GD2, I've run all my images through a resizer and FTP'd them thinking maybe they were too large, but that has had no noticeable affect as far as getting them imported goes. I've also tried changing the max file size to 3072 and the max height/width to 5000. (All my images are currently much smaller than this after the resizing).

I half suspect it may be some sort of timeout issue, but couldn't find where to adjust that.


Please help,
- Aaron

[Joachim Müller]

http uploads work as expected (see http://www.thenance.com/PhotoGallery/displayimage.php?pos=-322), so that's fine. Post a deep link to one of the files that you're trying to batch-add that gives you troubles.

[AaronNance]

Thanks for the quick reply.
Here is a link to one of the images.

http://www.thenance.com/PhotoGallery/albums/Gaming%20Gallery/Fat%20Bastard%20LAN/FBL09/IMG_4252_3753x5634.jpg

[AaronNance]

I often get the following message when trying to view the directory listing of available albums to import.
Not sure if its related to my issue or if its something different.

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\Hosting\5293736\html\PhotoGallery\searchnew.php on line 275
 
Just below that message will be a partial listing of my directories.
I don't get the message every time, but I do see it often.

[AaronNance]

Got it figured out.

The image size was my issue, though not in the common sense. GD uses an images dimensions to calulate size when it attempts to resize images. So even though my pictures were about 1mb in size, because they were over 6000 pixels wide they got an error. Resizing them to a smaller dimension seems to have fixed the issue.

Thanks

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for returning and resolving your thread. You figured out what we have written down in the docs as well: the dimensions count in this aspect, not the file size, as the image needs to be processed in the memory of the server, i.e. RAM consumption counts here.

Joachim

P.S. In the future, please resolve your threads as suggested per board rules. I edited this thread accordingly.

P.P.S. You should really review your use of spaces in folder names - that's a not a bright idea on a webserver. You should as well review your use of capitalization: a folder named PhotoGallery is really a bad thing on a webserver, although Windows let's you get away with that you shouldn't do it. As an alternative, use

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photogallery or photo_gallery as folder name, which will result in your gallery's URL becoming http://www.thenance.com/photogallery/, which is not the same as http://www.thenance.com/PhotoGallery/, trust me on that. Subsequently

www.TheNance.com/PhotoGallery

is just not true neither: your gallery URL currently is http://www.thenance.com/PhotoGallery/ and should be http://www.thenance.com/photogallery/ (but currently is not).