BUG/ISSUE – Uploading directly from a zip file

  • I am having an issue when a user uploads a file directly from a zip file. ie. user opens the zip file and drags a file from within explorer into the drag and drop area.

    This ends up with a 0kb file and the content is not available to me.

    Unfortunately, this happens quite a bit and causing a bit of a headache for me.

    I suspect this is a limitation of the drag&drop implementation and zip files and possibly can’t be fixed. But I am wondering, if there is anything I can do to check if a file uploaded is 0 bytes, if it is remove the file and display a message?

    Other than this little trouble I have, I couldn’t thank enough to the developer! Really neat plugin!

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  • Plugin Author Glen Don Mongaya

    (@glenwpcoder)

    Hello @ozturkinc ,

    Can you please include a link to your site?

    Our free version of plugin doesn’t have any restriction specially the zip file format.

    Can you try our demo here – https://codedropz.com/contact with the zip file?

    Please let me know.

    Thread Starter ozturkinc

    (@ozturkinc)

    Hi Glen,

    I would love to give you a link but it is an internal website to our company ?? So that is not possible unfortuantely.

    I think you have misunderstood my issue, I don’t have issues with uploading a zip file, that actually works fine.

    The exact scenario is, if I double click on a zip file and open it using explorer, I can then drag and drop a file from this explorer window into the uploader (mouse drag&drop). But doing this always ends up being a 0kb file. I have just tested this on your site, you should have received a 0kb “test file.docx” which I am pretty sure you won’t be able to open.

    If you follow the steps, you will experience the same problem.

    To be honest, I don’t think this a problem with your plug-in but it is rather a constraint in the way clipboard works with dropping a file from zip container in explorer… Hope this makes a little bit more sense.

    I am hoping that there may be a restriction built in to check for 0byte files and display a warning/error to advise the client…

    Thread Starter ozturkinc

    (@ozturkinc)

    @glenwpcoder any chance you might have more to add to this? or suggestions perhaps?

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