MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I and I know one other have had problems posting pictures. It seems to happen rather erratically and in my case it doesn't seem to be related to size. I have been able successfully post jpeg 3.7mb but not 2mb. I originally thought it was limited to cell phone usage but have now had problems via computer. I am not ruling out user error as I am not the brightest bulb on the tree so if anyone knows what I may be doing wrong, tell it. Otherwise please do some test uploads here on this thread and tell your results. I'll start. ok, 6 out of 8 loaded successfully A 3.1 loaded but a 1.7 did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I'll bite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) All images uploaded with my phone, 2 I tried to upload twice and they failed... Tried to email them (full size, 4.9MB total) to my PC, and upload them from there. No dice. Emailed them again, but downsized them ("large," 1.5MB for the pair), and here they are: Edited November 30, 2016 by SpecialEducation (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks for your help Matt. So does that really show us anything of value.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 52 minutes ago, MrEarl said: Thanks for your help Matt. So does that really show us anything of value.? That Mr. Earl figurine can stand on an Olds intake manifold? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, MrEarl said: Thanks for your help Matt. So does that really show us anything of value.? Well, since all of those photos were Oldsmobile related, I consider them high value! All of the color images were taken with the same camera phone. There should have been no appreciable difference between the uploadability of those photos, but for some reason, the site management didn't like the first two until they were reprocessed. The first thing I'd do is ask the boss-man what a -200 error is. It's probably something really helpful like 'General Error' but we won't know unless we ask. If the management would like me to email the unmolested rejected files to them so they can explain why their software doesn't like them, I'd be glad to do so. Edited November 30, 2016 by SpecialEducation (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 I've posed the problems to Peter with as much detail as I had and he asked for more info, hence this thread. Hopefully it will help him determine and resolve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Working with Peter and Matt to resolve, anybody else care to help. We're mainly looking for a common thread. It is not related to oversize files, we have pretty much determined that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avgwarhawk Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) Edited November 30, 2016 by avgwarhawk (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Chris , Are those thumbprints or did you post full size? What size are they do you know haven't seen this before, it has been all or nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 My contribution. From computer. Just clicked "choose files" which took me to my pictures, clicked [chose] on one, it appeared at the bottom left of my post under "uploaded images". Clicked image and here it is. Ben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks Ben, try a few more, of different sizes. and possibly from your cell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I have never clicked "Insert other media" For below: From my IPhone 6 Browsing on phone. Pic 1 - Cut and paste from a website Then, Click to choose files. Pic 2- Clicked "Photo Library" Pic 3 - "Take Picture" WOODY MIDDLETON DOMINATES HR DERBY AT WORLD SERIES Woodrow Middleton belted 4 bombs in the Final Round of the HR Derby at the Super Series World Series to win the title. Middleton has shown great power all season and continues to make everyone in the organization proud of his accomplishments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks Mike, try more from you cell phone stored pics. We've been working on this half a day and can't figure out wth is going on. How am I suppose to sell Buick parts if I can't post pictures. or more pictures of Terry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beemon Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Could quite possibly be bandwidth usage or stability of internet connection on a mobile device. Or quite possibly it's the mobile website, where it's doing different things based on smart phone OS? I gave up entirely and now upload everything to facebook, copy the image link and post using "insert other media" on the PC. You can make photos private, though most of my stuff I don't care about sharing. Data plans vary from provider to provider, but if everyone is doing it, then I would wager it's the mobile website, because there isn't an issue uploading from the PC. Was the mobile page updated recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 2 minutes ago, Beemon said: Could quite possibly be bandwidth usage or stability of internet connection on a mobile device. Or quite possibly it's the mobile website, where it's doing different things based on smart phone OS? I gave up entirely and now upload everything to facebook, copy the image link and post using "insert other media" on the PC. You can make photos private, though most of my stuff I don't care about sharing. Data plans vary from provider to provider, but if everyone is doing it, then I would wager it's the mobile website, because there isn't an issue uploading from the PC. Was the mobile page updated recently? But there is a problem uploading from the PC. I originally thought it was cellphone but tried loading the same pic that wouldn't load from cell from PC and it did the same thing. Let me try again. yep same thing...upload failed... I had sent the picture to my pc from my cell in full size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 let me try some OLD photos that weren't cell phone genetated 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beemon Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Could possibly be resolution and image type the cell phone is saving the image as. What are the image types and max resolution the forum will accept? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 4 hours ago, MrEarl said: Thanks Ben, try a few more, of different sizes. and possibly from your cell? You talking to ME? From my cell? Ben 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 3 minutes ago, Beemon said: Could possibly be resolution and image type the cell phone is saving the image as. What are the image types and max resolution the forum will accept? Yea. as I had no problem loading the above old camera type pictures. I need to check on the max res but all the cell phone pics have been jpeg and know it accepts them. 2 minutes ago, First Born said: You talking to ME? From my cell? Ben ROFLMAO yea, forgot who I was talkin to for a minute there. Dude if you can build a straight eight you can post a dang cell phone picture 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) Here is the oldest pic from my phone. I may try a cloud pic also... Bottom pic is from 2005 Edited December 1, 2016 by buick5563 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
56buickinga Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 3/4 uploaded the one that didn't upload was taken from my iPhone the other day and wouldn't load. I emailed it to my iPad and it wouldn't load. But pictures from my iPad load fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Here's a bit of the EXIF data from the Dr. Olds shot that keeps getting rejected: I have tried uploading the unprocessed image from my phone, Chrome, and Explorer with no luck. The forum software calls it a 1.7 mb file: The photo of my grandma's engine in the back of my truck loads just fine, and the EXIF data shows it's practically identical: Even though, due to the nature of jpeg compression, the image shows as a larger file at 2.5 mb: Conclusion: Size, resolution, and source seem to make no difference. There is something buried in the image file itself that the forum software kicks out. Is it because I shot one horizontal and one vertical? Perhaps I'll test that in a few minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Testing my horizontal/vertical theory... Yep, that seems to be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 Wow, thanks for your continued efforts Matt! Personally I'm wondering if it's a bug in the software that could possibly be fixed with a software update, ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Trying a different camera & process... Not just iPhone related. The vertical image straight out of the camera failed too. Reprocessing the image in Lightroom fixed it though. These were shot with a Pentax K-r. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 57 minutes ago, SpecialEducation said: Testing my horizontal/vertical theory... Yep, that seems to be it. What seems to be it. Like if we flip our photos they will post or they won't post or? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) 6 minutes ago, MrEarl said: Wow, thanks for your continued efforts Matt! Personally I'm wondering if it's a bug in the software that could possibly be fixed with a software update, ? Yep. I think it's a bug in the forum software. If it were just iPhones, I'd say there's something about Apple's codec, but the same behavior between a phone camera and a DSLR? That makes me think that the forum's image handler is improperly rejecting photos tagged as vertical shots. Any photo I shoot vertically (portrait) and attempt to upload without doing any image processing gets rejected. These three were rejected, and all I did was crop them and now they work. Edited December 1, 2016 by SpecialEducation (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) Probably a forum software incompatibility with certain cameras. Any time I have a problem posting a picture it is ALWAYS one taken with an iphone camera. The same picture resists being edited by some software on my desktop computer. Other phone cameras or dedicated cameras seldom fail to post. Mostly an Apple problem! Edited December 1, 2016 by old-tank (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 21 minutes ago, old-tank said: Mostly an Apple problem! False. I tried it with 2 Pentax cameras (K-r and WG-II) and verticals fail from them as well. Tried uploading from a Canon PowerShot SX710, and NONE of the images will upload (portrait or landscape) until I run them through LightRoom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 TOO MANY GADGETS!! I take my pictures with a canon powershot something or other. It is a point and shoot about ten plus years old. Download to my windows computer and then post with no changes. Only problem I have is chasing them down on the computer [ windows 7]. They do like to run and hide. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 50 minutes ago, SpecialEducation said: False. In my case it is an Apple problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 Matt, I have forwarded your findings to Peter. Hopefully he can use it to work further on the issue. Thanks Matt and all for your input!!! Will report back any news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dei Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Just now having that -200 error code pop up while trying to post on my thread a resized picture from the same ACER now 1 year old PC down loaded from my memory card used in my Canon Powershot GLPH160 Camera. The resizing seemed to cure this problem before but back again?!?? Another issue? A few times while taking some time to compose a post, it would seem to stop and when hitting Submit Reply would come up as OOPS! Something went wrong. I would have to sign in again, finding what I had printed was saved, proceed and hit the Submit Reply button and then it would post. My system is Windows not Apple if this helps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gariepy Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 The software is fully up to date so thats not it. Upload size is "unlimited" is its not that. Not sure how vertical or horizontal have any impact but i'll research it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEducation Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 I'll throw this out there for fun. If I open a rejected image in an EXIF data editor and change the orientation, it flies. For instance, if I open a rejected (horizontal) PowerShot image at http://www.thexifer.net/index.php I see: If I change it to None or Horizontal (normal), it will upload. If I change it to Rotate 90 CW, it will fail. Likewise, if I take a rejected vertical from a Pentax or iPhone and change it to None or Horizontal (normal), it will upload. The forum image handler seems to be rejecting images based on EXIF data tags, but if I take a previously acceptable image and change the EXIF tag to Rotate 90 CW, it still uploads. Perhaps there's an EXIF standards versioning issue here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thriller Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Elvis sighting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thriller Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 On November 30, 2016 at 0:19 PM, avgwarhawk said: Chicken Delight car if I have it right. It's local and has been tidied up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
91vert Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Not computer related but I have that same Riv. Same black on black with grafite gray interior. My wheels are different, the same ones that came on the '91 Reatta's. Is yours a '93 aswell ? Cal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 It was Cal, sold it a couple of years back with 130K miles, still regretting it, sweetest handling road car I ever had. I was the second owner. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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