Now if you hand this over to a customer, who is by the way not that computer literate, how will he know about this?  I had a look at Joomla 1.6 and although there are not that many components and templates available, it is in my mind to switch to it as soon as possible.  Unfortunately some of the larger sites have to suffice with J1.5 and relevant components.  Being a distributed system developer myself it is not always possible to test the components on all the platforms and all the scenarios, but the basics as image reducing should have been in K2 from the start, no matter of the input size; or at least give the user a fair warning to resize the image before upload.  Personally I use an external image resizer but the customer may have no inkling how to.

Chris said:
File names were not the only issue.  The size of the files were the main issue.  

To quickly resolve the issue I used Picasa 3 to select and then export the files to a new folder with each getting resized to 800px.  At that point I could successfully upload Images and Galleries in both Items and Categories.  

I believe the K2 resizing feature couldn't handle the originals.  The originals were all about 1.7mb with resolution of 3072x2304px.  The resized files were 170kb and 600x800px.  

Anyway I'm posting this in the hopes of saving other some time.  I was about to give up on K2 after uninstalling and reinstalling both K2 and Joomla a number of times; that or jump to a new host.

Cheers!

Chris

William White said:

Filenames ! again - This is unixalmost like the power cable

Remember check file names, turn off sef, set error reporting to highest, power must be plugged in because i can see the screen! been there, done that

This always causes issues for me as people just want to post huge files to the new, and they want their sites to be fast as well....the two do not mix

Pierre Cornelissen said:
Now if you hand this over to a customer, who is by the way not that computer literate, how will he know about this?  I had a look at Joomla 1.6 and although there are not that many components and templates available, it is in my mind to switch to it as soon as possible.  Unfortunately some of the larger sites have to suffice with J1.5 and relevant components.  Being a distributed system developer myself it is not always possible to test the components on all the platforms and all the scenarios, but the basics as image reducing should have been in K2 from the start, no matter of the input size; or at least give the user a fair warning to resize the image before upload.  Personally I use an external image resizer but the customer may have no inkling how to.
Chris said:
File names were not the only issue.  The size of the files were the main issue.  

To quickly resolve the issue I used Picasa 3 to select and then export the files to a new folder with each getting resized to 800px.  At that point I could successfully upload Images and Galleries in both Items and Categories.  

I believe the K2 resizing feature couldn't handle the originals.  The originals were all about 1.7mb with resolution of 3072x2304px.  The resized files were 170kb and 600x800px.  

Anyway I'm posting this in the hopes of saving other some time.  I was about to give up on K2 after uninstalling and reinstalling both K2 and Joomla a number of times; that or jump to a new host.

Cheers!

Chris

William White said:

Filenames ! again - This is unixalmost like the power cable

Remember check file names, turn off sef, set error reporting to highest, power must be plugged in because i can see the screen! been there, done that

You have no control over users' mental state and knowledge.  If they want to load a very large image he thinks he is intitled to do so;  me as a systems developer, in this case K2 developer, has to manage this moroon's grey matter and prevent him to do so by giving him alternatives or messages.  Therefore, I feel that K2 has to manage this issue and prevent users to mess up.  It might have been an oversight; I had more than enough in my lifetime (over-exitement is the major cause), but was decent enought to accept my mistakes, apologise, and fix it. So K2 team, you have a great product; the challenge here is to manage moroons and deslixic typos like me. However, my biggest issue with image uploads was apache security - not sizes, but again, the average user does not know about resizing images. I had to explain it to collegue today; he thought by resizing the image in MS Word will make it smaller in size..... a lot to learn. By the way, I found VSO Image Resizer to be the best for me.

Hi guys,

I had the same problem but the solution from Nick doesn't worked out for me.

All write permissions were just fine,

after that i found out, that my jpg file I wanted to upload had less than 435kb but exceeded more than 3000 pix.

I created a test jpg and that worked out for me just fine.

thanks for the other advice from nick anyway

greets Christiane PESCHEN

Well here I am at the last thread after reading everyones advise on how to upload these images and tried evrything.

I tried: editing class.upload file  I tried: changing all permissions on k2 to 777

and I tried uploading jpeg & png images resized

I probably tried many other things also but after 5 hours of trying to solve this very problem I may have forgotten a few other attempts but either way they were all to no avail?

The only options left for me is to bang the side of the computer and see if that helps, so for the sake of my sanity and my computer PLEASE,  is there a 100% way to solve this issue?

 

Waiting in vain:-) 

 

Thanks 

 

Chris said:

I posted back on page 3  but to recap, 800px seemed to be the sweet spot for me.  3000px simply would not work.

 

Peschen said:

Hi guys,

I had the same problem but the solution from Nick doesn't worked out for me.

All write permissions were just fine,

after that i found out, that my jpg file I wanted to upload had less than 435kb but exceeded more than 3000 pix.

I created a test jpg and that worked out for me just fine.

thanks for the other advice from nick anyway

greets Christiane PESCHEN

Thanks for your reply Chris but have already tried uploading a small file.  I have just started uploading images direct to my server via my server control panel which is an absolute pain and will extend the time it is taking my to complete the project I am working on.  Really would like to get this working correctly!

 

I cant believe K2 could allow this bug to continue so long?

I am still beating my head against the wall here....

Joomla: v1.5.23

K2: v2.4.1

Host: Rochen (reseller)

PHP: 5.2.17

Thanks Chris, I will give that a go tomorrow and let you know how it went.

After almost 1 month of banging my head against the wall I am still no farther with uploading images in K2??????

wow chris! i guess you're right about the photoshop-resized image, i just cannot upload those ones.

I resized the images with IrfanView and saved, then tried to upload it~ it works like a charm! :D