Can’t upload image

  • did the upgrade thing. I like it, but I cannot upload images. I select “From computer” and get the dialog box. I select the picture, and click the button. The window says “Crunching”, I get a progress bar, then it says “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.” under the “Crunching” bar, and “HTTP error.” under the “From computer” button.

    I’ve uploaded files to the directory via FTP and they don’t show in the media library, like maybe it’s not updating based ont he latest directory content.

    Help!

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  • The media library “sees” only images that were uploaded through the WP interface and doesn’t see anything uploaded via FTP.

    Thread Starter tanker

    (@tanker)

    Okay, I’ll buy the reason that images don’t show in the library view, but I still cannot load images from the interface. I’ve tried the htaccess hack, and I’ve changed permissions, and I still get nothing.

    TANKER:

    This is exactly the error that I am getting. I use the latest version of FireFox.

    So far I’ve tried the Flash Player upgrade (recommended in the sticky), and the clearing cache procedure (also recommended in the sticky). I’ve replaced my includes/link-template.php file too (per the sticky).

    Nothing works for me so far; still getting that crunching message followed by “http error, try again later.”

    I’ll be very interested to hear a solution for this error message.

    Are you using Bad Behavior? 2.5 does not like Bad Behavior. Disable it, or try the temp fix recommended in the sticky. I couldn’t upload images (same error), I tried simply disabling BB, but that didn’t work. I ended up deleting the install and Bad Behavior, redownloading the WP files just in case anything went wrong with the download, reinstalled, did the htaccess hack mentioned in the sticky, and it worked fine. But without Bad Behavior, I was getting spam, so I redownloaded that, deleted the line about Shockwave, reuploaded and activated, and it all still works.

    Good luck. I know how frustrating it is, I spent a lot of yesterday figuring it out.

    Hi amom,

    Nope, not using Bad Behavior (and never have). Spam Karma, yes. Maybe I’ll try deactivating it and see if the images will upload without that error message, just for the heck of it.

    I haven’t tried the htaccess hack yet, but I do have an extensive custom htaccess file so I was REALLY hoping I wouldn’t have to mess with any of that.

    Thanks for your response!

    Kay,

    I did an upgrade for a friend who has an immense htaccess file, and I just cut and pasted the code at the very end of her file. Worked fine. I’ve found nothing else that worked, including deactivating ALL of my plugins, lol.

    Out of curiosity, why don’t you like BB? I’ve never tried Spam Karma, how is it different?

    amom,

    It’s not that I don’t like BB, I just don’t have much experience with it. The one time I did have it installed and activated it did something weird/bad, but honestly, I forget what now. I wasn’t traumatized or anything. Heh. It was a long time ago. I have no idea how SK works; the main reason I’m using it because “it was there.” ?? It seems to work for me, although between my htaccess and settings I’ve chosen up at my hosting server, and of course the privacy settings on WP itself (re: comments, registration, etc.), I don’t even GET spam, so it’s hard to know which of the spam preventatives/killers is actually doing the heavy lifting.

    I’ll go ahead and try adding the code to the END of my htaccess. I have anti-hotlinking code there, if memory serves. The worst that can happen is it won’t work and I’ll get a message, in which case I’ll delete it. Worth a try!

    OK, I just tried making a new htaccess with the code from the sticky as the ONLY thing in it and placing it in my admin directory just like the sticky instructions say to. (I did not need to touch my existing htaccess, which is in another directory.)

    It worked: I can now upload images; no more error message. Yay.

    I’d tried a few of the other suggestions in the sticky, as I said above; apparently I just stopped too soon, proving yet again that it pays to be persistent and follow directions exactly. ??

    Thread Starter tanker

    (@tanker)

    Okay… It’s fixed. I went to the plugins page and disabled Bad Behavior.

    No .htaccess file needed.

    Thanks for the help…

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