Curry Recipes Online
Curry Photos & Videos => Pictures of Your Curries => Topic started by: Cory Ander on January 03, 2008, 11:55 PM
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Hi All,
Has anyone else recently had a problem with posting photos?
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I did this afternoon. Refused to upload them.
1 x jpeg 300 pixels x 250 pixels (small file)
Keep getting this message:-
Your attachment couldn't be saved. This might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is bigger than the server will allow.
Please consult your server administrator for more information
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I have run out of server space, i am currently working to purchase some more space.
Should be back accepting photos in 24 hours.
Stew
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yes me too :(, the deletion of the test photos might free up some space? just a suggestion..
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I know this doesn't work that well with the gallery concept, but people posting curry video/photos could always link them in from another site (like flikr, google, personal blog, etc.) and not eat up all of the storage space on Stew's server. No sense in costing him any more money than necessary to host this pretty valuable forum.
I didn't see any way to do that from the gallery pages though. It looks like the forum software only allows pictures uploaded to be part of a gallery.
If you don't have any other place to put the photos, I'm not saying don't use the site, but if you've another place to put them, it might be better on both the bandwidth and storage quotas wherever cr0 is physically hosted. If every one of the 4089 members uploaded a single 100k photo (the ones in my posts were between 50-100k each), that'd be around 400MB of storage. Of course, that isn't the case (there's only a handful of pictures that I've seen in the galleries), but if you add the software and other downloads, etc., it all adds up.
If none of the above makes any sense to you, then don't worry about it. ;) Wait 'till Stew's sorted more storage and bring on the photos.
Just trying to help out...
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I personally think the upload maximum file size can be reduced.
For example the attached file is a good quality jpeg file which is 400 pixels x 280 pixels. It's size (optimised) is only 30 kB. Nowadays most submissions could/should be in jpeg format anyway.
A 1500 kB file is far larger than can be practically used on this forum.
Regards
SnS ;D
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Here is an example of wasting space (not having a go at anyone in particular .. AN EXAMPLE ONLY - there are plenty of other examples just like it)
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=47
The file size is 535 pixels X 700 pixels and weigh in at a massive 451 KB.
Below is the same photo optimised which is the same size but now only 34 KB (7.5% of the original size)
Regards
SnS ;D
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Another point here:-
If photos can't be optimised (ie: insufficient knowledge in optimising using photo editing software), then when the photos are taken, ensure that the camera setting is for web standard photos. On my camera this is shown as 03M. This is the quality which normally shows the maximum amount of frames available to the camera.
03M is taken at 640 x 480 pixels which is sufficient for all web use ... including this forum!
Regards
SnS ;D
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I have run out of server space, i am currently working to purchase some more space.
Let me guess, it's going to cost 7 grand for a cluster of servers and the manpower to look after it :P
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he he Curry King,
Not quite seven grand as some such web owners would have you believe.
I did a bit of cleaning up, loads of space now....
Post your photos away.
Stew 8)
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Thanks for resolving that Stew.
Some vigorous archiving wouldn't go amiss Im sure!
I agree we should consider reducing the maximum file size from 1.5MB. It does seem rather large for each photo Stew? Assuming that this would really make a significant dent in your storage space of course? I'm sure it would if people started posting videos! :o
In the "How to Upload Your Photos" document above http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=1475.msg12836#msg12836 I've suggested a file size of 100 - 300 kB and an image size of 700 by 525 pixels (or smaller). I feel reasonable resolution is required to be able to magnify and look at the texture in some detail (yes, I'm sad, I know it ::))
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if its any use there are 2 good free re-size and photos editors available on these links, they are pretty good and easy to use..
photoscape
http://www.download.com/PhotoScape/3000-2192_4-10703123.html?tag=lst-1
media resizer
http://www.download.com/Media-Resizer-Free/3000-2192_4-10329175.html?tag=lst-1
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I think the easiest way for XP users to quickly resize is to use the Windows XP resize powertoy. It adds a resize option to your right click menu, when right clicking on an image file. Find it here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe (http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe)
Also, I mentioned in the suggestions when I joined, it would be easiest to resize files server side when the file is uploaded. Using the GD library for php, this can be done quite simply. This would mean that no matter the size of file uploaded, it would always be saved on the server size 700 x 525, or whatever we want. I am a professional programmer and can write php so if you need help I am more than happy to oblige. 8)
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ARRRGGG!!!!!
I'm trying to upload 3 photos of my curry.
Each photo is a Jpeg 768x576 and is 60kb
What am I doing wrong?
Pat
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there are currently problems again i think pat
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PRROBLEM NOW RESOLVED