Upload problem

[ryanhowdy]

I installed coppermine about a week ago and everything worked fine, i even uploaded a few pictures, but now i am getting the following error message:

The previous file could not be placed.

i tried searching for the answer on this msg board with little success.  i did enable debug mode and like is suggested on here but when i tried to upload a file, it just does the same thing.  i dont get a new error message or anything.

here is the info for my site:

http://www.haudenschilt.com/gallery/

user: test
pwd: tester

i hope thats all you need.

[ryanhowdy]

i don't know if this helps but i have noticed that the files are showing up in the /albums/edit/ folder

[Nibbler]

Set it to single file upload mode as suggested.

[ryanhowdy]

oops,


done.

[kegobeer]

You must follow the troubleshooting guide.

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#upload_trouble

[ryanhowdy]

i'm really sorry... i set the single file upload thing to the wrong group.

it should work now...


sorry

[Nibbler]

Looks like your imagemagick is not setup properly. Either get it fixed or try GD2 instead.

[ryanhowdy]

what exactly is wrong?  anything specific?

this is paid hosting... not my own server...

do i just need my host to reinstall imagemagick?

[Nibbler]

Give them the error message, I can't tell you exactly what is wrong since I am not an IM expert.

[kegobeer]

Newer versions of ImageMagick don't automatically support various image types.  Whoever installed ImageMagick needs to get detailed instructions on how to properly install ImageMagick (a good place to look is imagemagick.org or Google for that error message.)

Until that is fixed, switch to GD2.

[ryanhowdy]

well, i switched it to GD2 and it works for now... 

but i still want to fix this imagemagick problem

the tech support people on my webhost say that the following:

I checked the ImageMagick convert program and it worked fine. The perl module works fine as well. The problem you are getting in the program looks like it is not supplying enough arguments for the software.

i tried going to imagemagick support forums and looking up the error message but with no luck... i also tried google... and it looks like a few people just reinstalled coppermine to fix it.


what files can i reinstall without loosing some of my settings?  maybe that can fix it

[Joachim Müller]

what was the actual error message you got when using ImageMagick? I was able to upload just fine (see http://www.haudenschilt.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-13), probably because you switched to GD. However, why are you so eager to use ImageMagick? GD is fine for nearly all purposes I could think of.

[ryanhowdy]

to be honest i don't know.... i guess just because it doesn't work 100%... that bothers me.   and also i just assume that imagemagick is better quality, but since i know little of either, GD2 should work just fine.


i guess i will just continue using gd2........   :-\


thanks GauGau, kegobeer, and Nibbler for all the help.... i REALLY appreciate you guys helping so fast

[Joachim Müller]

There's no noticable difference in quality between IM and GD. Nothing is broken or doesn't work 100% just because you don't have both alternative methods to resize images; it's either IM or GD that is needed to have - if one of the two works, that's just fine. Marking this thread as solved

[kegobeer]

I checked the ImageMagick convert program and it worked fine. The perl module works fine as well. The problem you are getting in the program looks like it is not supplying enough arguments for the software.

What version of ImageMagick did your host install?  If there is a major change in how ImageMagick convert command is executed, we'll have to add those new commands Coppermine.